Neurosciences

MRI Atlas of Human White Matter presents an atlas to the human brain on the basis of T 1-weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging.

Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience?

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards.

What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt?

Why do human beings behave as they do?

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music?

John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, even his own reflection in a mirror.

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there?

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity.

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy .

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph.

A perfect introduction to Melanie Klein s modern neuroscientific research.

Management writers have come up with many tools for explaining how different types of personalities can work best together.

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field.

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field.

The 11th Hour Series of revision guides are designed for quick reference.

As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr.

Why do some people drive change while others are blindsided by it?

How to safely de-tox from IT overload--with the healing effects of nature.

'A must-read for anyone who suffers with chronic worry.

From the author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Female Brain comes this eagerly awaited follow-up.

Timothy Ferris, bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, brilliantly synthesizes inner and outer space with a penetrating examination into the nature of the universe and the human brain that perceives it.

All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history.

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being.

- When I drink, am I killing my brain cells?

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.

PART OF THE ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- What is pain and can we measure it?

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer?

Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception.

The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science.

How our brains have evolved so that we control how we think and behaveThe Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation.

What's so special about music?

A new approach to understanding animal and human cognitionWhen a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do.

Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

The first book to comprehensively explore the cognitive foundations of human spatial navigationHumans possess a range of navigation and orientation abilities, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

El cerebro humano contiene 86 mil millones de neuronas.

Often taken for granted, the sense of smell has seldom been discussed or understood.

Often taken for granted, the sense of smell has seldom been discussed or understood.

Practical tools and tips to lead a healthy and productive life The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence and decide.

Practical tools and tips to lead a healthy and productive life The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence and decide.

The definitive guide to 21st century investigations of multilingual neuroscience The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of neurocognitive investigations of multiple-language speakers.

The definitive guide to 21st century investigations of multilingual neuroscience The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of neurocognitive investigations of multiple-language speakers.

The transition to motherhood is marked by significant change at both biological and psychological levels, facilitating the development of maternal behavior.

The transition to motherhood is marked by significant change at both biological and psychological levels, facilitating the development of maternal behavior.

Provides a highly visual, readily accessible introduction to the main events that occur during neural development and their mechanisms Building Brains: An Introduction to Neural Development, 2nd Edition describes how brains construct themselves, from simple beginnings in the early embryo to become the most complex living structures on the planet.

Provides a highly visual, readily accessible introduction to the main events that occur during neural development and their mechanisms Building Brains: An Introduction to Neural Development, 2nd Edition describes how brains construct themselves, from simple beginnings in the early embryo to become the most complex living structures on the planet.

The GnRH Neuron and its Control examines the developmental biology of GnRH neurons including their birth in the nasal placode of the early embryo, perinatal programming, and sexual differentiation, in addition to the hypothalamic mechanisms that control GnRH neurons in adulthood to generate pulsatile and surge modes of GnRH secretion throughout the major life stages including aging.