Neurosciences

This book highlights the importance of the choroid plexus, which forms the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier and is the site of the major production of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

This book applies Owen's unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime.

This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory.

Roughly one in every five patients referred to a neurologist suffers from headaches; the majority have migraines.

This book is based on a two-day symposium at the Paris Institute of Advanced Study titled "e;space-time geometries and movement in the brain and the arts"e;.

Older aged adults face many adversities over the later life course.

This book reviews the recent research into biological aspects of suicide behavior and outlines each of the varied, recent approaches to prevent suicide.

This book addresses current issues in the neuroscience and ethics of dementia care, including philosophical as well as ethical legal, and social issues (ELSIs), issues in clinical, institutional, and private care-giving, and international perspectives on dementia and care innovations.

This volume provides an empirical and conceptual overview of advances in our understanding of impulsivity and impulsive behaviors.

The Annual BCI Research Awards are international prizes that recognize the top new projects in brain-computer interface (BCI) research.

This handbook explores mindfulness philosophy and practice as it functions in today's socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape.

The second edition of this successful book provides further and in-depth insight into theoretical models dealing with Internet addiction, as well as includes new therapeutical approaches.

Neuromechanics is a new, quickly growing field of neuroscience research that merges neurophysiology, biomechanics and motor control and aims at understanding living systems and their elements through interactions between their neural and mechanical dynamic properties.

The molecular genetics of the cholinergic system including both muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cholinesterases, acetylcholine synthesis and release have provided significant insights into potential targeting for pharmacological intervention.

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals.

This book deals with recent perspectives on the panel of addiction behavior in a vast amount of population (young and adult).

The aim of the present book is to comprehensively review current advances in understanding of genetics, structural biology, pharmacology of potassium channels and their roles in disease as well as to identify current gaps in knowledge.

This book is a timely report on current neurotechnology research.

This book presents the proceedings of the Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2016, reporting on topics at the intersection of Information Systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences.

This book presents a comprehensive neuropsychodynamic strategy for treating psychiatric disorders.

How do we make the judgments that inform our lives?

Should parents aim to make their children as normal as possible to increase their chances to "e;fit in"e;?

Imre Koncsik beschreibt die Theorie des Geistes als naturphilosophische Theorie auf Basis der Physik.

This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics.

The "e;THINKING: Bioengineering of Science and Art"e; is to discuss about philosophical aspects of thinking at the context of Science and Art.

This PIR volume presents a comprehensive collection of reviews that focus on the role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) during steady-state and inflamed conditions.

The Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow brings togetherinternational researchers from different fields ranging from physics tocomputer science and engineering to discuss the latest developments intraffic-related systems.

This book shows how information systems (IS) scholars can effectively apply neuroscience expertise in ways that do not require neuroscience tools.

This book presents an innovative approach to clinical assessment in psychiatry based on a number of psychopathological dimensions with a presumed underlying pathophysiology, that are related to fundamental phenomenological aspects and lie on a continuum from normality to pathology.

This book presents the latest research in computational methods for modeling and simulating brain disorders.

This work challenges the current reliance on "e;The Three R's"e; or Replacement, Reduction and Refinement which direct most animal research in the behavioral sciences.

This book is a compendium of articles providing insights into a range of contemporary ideas concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

Over the last two decades, the recognition that astrocytes - the predominant type of cortical glial cells - could sense neighboring neuronal activity and release neuroactive agents, has been instrumental in the uncovering of many roles that these cells could play in brain processing and the storage of information.

This book's basic hypothesis - which it proposes to test with a cognitive-sociological approach - is that legal behavior, like every form of human behavior, is directed and framed by biosocial constraints that are neither entirely genetic nor exclusively cultural.

This book tackles the role of interrelated conditions in the manifestation and course of pulmonary ailments.

This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging  simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system.

This book addresses the problem of EEG signal analysis and the need to classify it for practical use in many sample implementations of brain-computer interfaces.

This first volume of a two-volume set describes general aspects, such as the historical view on the topic, the role of information distribution and preparedness of health-care systems and preparedness in emergency cases.

This book focuses on asymmetries in brain structure and their role in emotional functions (such as amygdala in emotional comprehension, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of emotional reactions, and the anterior insula in the experience of emotions).

This book focuses on neurodegenerative diseases which have become a major threat to human health.

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning.

Perinatal psychiatry is an emerging field that investigates the role of perinatal events - for example pregnancy complications and infections - in the development of neuropsychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense.

Authored by world renowned scientists, this book expertly reviews all the imaging techniques and exciting new methods for the analysis of the pain, including novel tracers, biomarker, metabolomic and gene-array profiling, together with cellular, genetic, and molecular approaches.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the main causes of disability in young adult population.

This book aims at gathering roboticists, control theorists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians, in order to promote a multidisciplinary research on movement analysis.

This book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2018, June 19-21, Vienna, Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of Information Systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences.