Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

The domain of neuroscience has had one of the most explosive growths in recent decades: within this development there has been a remarkable and renewed interest in the study of the relations between behaviour and the central nervous system.

In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that came into being at different moments in human evolution.

Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments is a resource for neuropsychologists, psychologists, teachers and parents who wish to address both the neurologically- and emotionally-based difficulties with which their children are presenting.

The first time I walked onto a neurology ward during my graduate training I was shocked (much as family members of people with brain illnesses probably are).

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

Do you want to learn to read people's minds?

Emotion and Cognition, Volume 246, consists of 16 chapters on recent scientific advances in emotion and cognition research.

This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them.

Cultural Diversity in Neuropsychological Assessment provides a platform for clinical neuropsychologists, psychologists, and trainees to bridge cultures and speak to each other about the ethnically diverse communities they serve throughout the world.

A practical guide on how to assess and treat schizophrenia and related disorders using cognitive rehabilitation.

Written expressly for non-neuropsychologists, this book offers a concise, friendly introduction to the developing brain and its functions.

Galileo is known as a pioneer of science - especially of mechanics and astronomy - but far less attention has been paid to his work on the senses generally, and more specifically on vision.

Why do we gesture when we speak?

The book provides an up-to-date account of the neuropsychological, cognitive-neurological, and neuropsychiatric aspects of movement disorders.

Biochemical and Clinical Aspects of Neuropeptides: Synthesis, Processing, and Gene Structure covers the proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Macromolecular Synthesis: Biochemical and Clinical Aspects of Neuropeptides, held in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein was one of the great neuroscientists of the twentieth century and highly respected by Western scientists even though most have never read his most important book entitled On the Construction of Movements.

Over the years, approaches to obesity prevention and treatment have gone from focusing on genetic and other biological factors to exploring a diversity of diets and individual behavior modification interventions anchored primarily in the power of the mind, to the recent shift focusing on societal interventions to design "e;temptation-proof"e; physical, social, and economic environments.

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

A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

This is the coronal plane that governs the weavings of remembrance and anticipation, recollections of the past and expectations of the future.

Adrian Raine Department of Psychology.

Nearly 44 million people have Alzheimer's or related dementia worldwide, according to the Alzheimer's Disease International organization.

This book provides essential information about the variety of seizure disorders and serves as a basic epilepsy reference guide for students and practicing clinical neuropsychologists.

Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for a greater understanding, and improved evaluations, in forensic psychology.

In an age of rapid advances in behavioural genetics, this book applies a unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour.

How to Support the Neuropsychological Health of the Vietnamese Diaspora is the first book in a new series entitled A Clinical Guide to the Neuropsychological Health of Immigrant Populations, which guides clinicians in the art and science of providing culturally competent services to specific communities.

Contributors to this book argue that we should study the brain basis of language as used in our daily lives.

The essays in this volume have been gathered together to honor Eric H.

In the past few years, there has been an explosion of eye movement research in cognitive science and neuroscience.

The Molecular Immunology of Neurological Diseases provides a comprehensive review of current updates in molecular immunogenetics of different neurological diseases.

This book is a practical resource designed for clinicians, researchers, and advanced students who wish to learn about single-case research designs.

Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us.

The human species is largely defined by its use of spoken language, so integral is speech communication to behavior and social interaction.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field.

Studying behaviour in animals requires numerical measurement.

The world of perception is multisensory.

Brain Laterality answers one of the major questions we ask ourselves every day: where?

This is a multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of trust, written by experts from the social, behavioural, and neural sciences.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life.

This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the main facts and theories that guide contemporary research on visual perception.

Winner of the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society "e;Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.

The field of ethics in science aims to improve the way the audience perceives science, and this unique workbook discusses the areas of ethics and scientific misconduct.

The Routledge Guidebook to James's Principles of Psychology is an engaging and accessible introduction to a monumental text that has influenced the development of both psychological science and philosophical pragmatism in important and lasting ways.

Biopsychology: The Basics is a concise, accessible and illuminating introduction to the field of biopsychology.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

In this Element laboratory studies on crossmodal attention are situated within the applied context of driving.