Neurosciences

The following are the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Human and Machine Perception held in Palermo, Italy, on June 20 -23, 2000, under the auspices of three Institutions: the Cybernetic and Biophysics Group (GNCB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the two Inter-Department Centers of Cognitive Sciences of Palermo and Pavia University respectively.

This volume provides a highly integrated view of attention-related events, taking the reader from individual molecular interactions through the regulation of neuronal circuits to our higher order capacity for selective amplification of particular information.

The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates Compact, Seventh Edition is a smaller sized (8.

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present as a superseding standard cognitive science.

This detailed book focuses on cutting-edge methods for Parkinson's disease (PD) research, such as the analysis of the prion-like properties of a-synuclein, mitochondrial functions related to the PINK1-Parkin pathway/CHCHD2, the endolysosome pathway related to LRRK2, VPS35, and ATP13A2 using cultured cells (including patient iPS cells), deep brain stimulation therapy, classic mitochondrial toxins related to PD, and genetic associations and screenings using mammalian and invertebrate genetic models of PD.

Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

This book examines the evolutionary lead taken by the matriline in providing the intergenerational co-adaptations required for successful pregnancy.

This volume provides a comprehensive and updated review of perineuronal satellite cells in sensory ganglia.

Volume I of Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics focused on issues of early human development, with special emphasis given to assessment of the preterm infant and to factors inftuencing the organization of the caregiver- infant relationship.

Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our grandest thought processes.

This monograph reports on advances in the measurement and study of autonomic nervous system (ANS) dynamics as a source of reliable and effective markers for mood state recognition and assessment of emotional responses.

Neurobiology of Addiction is conceived as a current survey and synthesis of the most important findings in our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction over the past 50 years.

This fully updated volume brings together synapse development methods that span from the macroscopic to the nanoscale in order to foster novel perspectives and encourage interdisciplinary integration.

This new edition of Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy addresses all issues relating to drug-resistance in epilepsy, including studies in patients as well in experimental models and presents the basis for an understanding of recent developments in the pathogenesis and treatment of this condition.

This Element provides an integrative approach to understanding light sensation in humans.

This contributed volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the roles played by 5-HT2B receptors in humans.

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

Learning and Behavior reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed because of learning.

Various aspects, including diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis, of two brain tumors (meningioma and schwannoma) , of brain tumors are discussed in this volume.

This book explores Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dynamics as investigated through Electrodermal Activity (EDA) processing.

The underlying philosophy of these two symposia on taurine remains the same as all those that have been held previously: the best way to remain current in the subject matter is to talk directly with the investigators at the forefront of the field.

The Opioid System as the Brain's Interface between Cognition and Motivation, Volume 239, focuses on the opioid system as the interface between the brain's cognitive and motivational systems.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This book combines approaches from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in the study of perception.

The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion.

This volume consists of twelve chapters that detail the latest neuroscience research.

Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the past decades.

This case series book offers a practical and accessible approach to psychiatry, addressing major clinical problems ranging from psychosis to aging effects, each of which is tackled as it arises in everyday settings.

Sex matters!

The previous editions of The Rat Nervous System were indispensable guides for those working on the rat and mouse as experimental models.

Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world - all this is somehow enabled by the brain.

This book tackles a subject that has captured the imagination of many researchers in the field: attitudes.

The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics.

Programming for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture presents a new approach to architectural programming that includes sustainability, neuroscience and human factors.

This volume discusses the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models.

The 3rd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics, and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2018), focuses on recent advances in genetics, geriatrics, and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments.

This new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the variety and complexity of the roles that glycoconjugates play in the cells of the nervous system.

A neuroscientifically informed theory arguing that the core of qualitative conscious experience arises from the integration of sensory and cognitive modalities.

Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution.

This book is the first digital atlas of the degu brain with microscopic features simultaneously in Nissl sections and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?

Examines how neuroscience can inform the concept of free will and associated practices of moral and criminal responsibility.

Mismatch negativity (MMN) is the electrophysiological change-detection response of the brain.

This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century.

Adrian Raine is one of the world's leading authorities on the minds of the violent, the criminal, the dangerous, the unstable.