Laterality in Sports: Theories and Applications summarizes recent research on the neurophysiological foundations of handedness, and how left or right lateralization (affecting primary hand use, foot use, and eye use) affects motor control, performance outcome, skill acquisition, and achievement of sports expertise-both for one-on-one sports and team sports.
The Clinician's Guide to Anxiety Sensitivity Treatment and Assessment provides evidence-based strategies for clinicians looking to treat, assess and better understand anxiety sensitivity in their patients.
This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance.
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.
Handbook of Sleep Disorders in Medical Conditions reviews the current knowledge on the nature and manifestations of sleep disorders associated with a variety of common medical conditions, including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and dementia.
Making a Scientific Case for Conscious Agency and Free Will makes a series of arguments that certain human behaviors are impossible to explain in the absence of free will, and that free will emerges from materialistic processes of brain function.
Cognition and Addiction: A Researcher's Guide from Mechanisms Towards Interventions provides researchers with a guide to recent cognitive neuroscience advances in addiction theory, phenotyping, treatments and new vistas, including both substance and behavioral addictions.
Neuroscience of the Nonconscious Mind includes novel concepts and insights on the brain mechanisms that control nonconscious mental functions, some of which were developed in the author's laboratory.
Machine Learning is an area of artificial intelligence involving the development of algorithms to discover trends and patterns in existing data; this information can then be used to make predictions on new data.
This book offers an integrated training and coaching system to facilitate change in systems that serve youth (education, healthcare, and juvenile justice).
This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.
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.
The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.
This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.
Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch.
Recent Advances and Controversies in Gamma Knife Neurosurgery, Volume 268, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on the latest in Dosimetry, Radiobiology, Evolving Gamma Knife Technology, Imaging, Arteriovenous Malformations, Dural A-V Fistulae, Cavernous Malformations, Vestibular Schwannoma, Other Schwannoma, Meningiomas, Pituitary Adenomas, Craniopharyngiomas, Metastases, Glioma Low Grade, Glioma High Grade, Glomus Tumors, Less Common Tumors, Orbital Indications, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Movement, Psychosurgery, and Future Trends.
"e;An animated introduction to the neuroscience of sensory perception"e; informed by the latest research on topics from music to brain injuries to synesthesia (Kirkus Reviews).
This book explores the fascinating area of interpersonal coordination in force production tasks, outlining the author's extensive research to date and presenting stimulating new perspectives.
Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part A, Volume 266, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume covering interesting chapters, including Pathophysiology and Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders, Neuroimaging of Psychiatric Disorders, History of Psychosurgery, Ethics of Psychosurgery, Medicolegal Aspects and Regulatory Issues of Psychosurgery, Psychiatric Mimics of Neurosurgical Disorders, Seizures and Pseudoseizures: The Great Divide, Pitfalls of Psychiatric Patients Selection for Functional Neurosurgery, Modern Surgical Strategies for Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Neuromodulation for Behavioral Disorders, and more.
Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment analyzes loneliness as a complex phenomenon, taking into account the most recent contributions from neuroscience, psychology, medicine and sociology.
Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume Two: Diagnosis, Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression provides comprehensive information about ongoing research and clinical data surrounding liver cancer.
Circadian and Visual Neuroscience, Volume 273 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics including Optical set-ups, Psychophysics of Luminance and Color Vision, Psychophysics of non-visual photoreception PRC/IRC/DRC/Spectral Sensitivity, Circadian and visual photometry, Modelling (retina), Modelling (circadian), Techniques for examining vision at the cellular level, Advanced techniques for characterizing the world hyperspectrally, Circadian physiology in mice: Melanopsin, Circadian physiology in mice: Color and cones, Translational aspects of animal studies, Retinal clocks, Primate non-visual physiology, Light and mood in animal models, and much more.
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood-even by psychoanalysts themselves.
Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume One: Biology and Pathophysiology provides comprehensive information about ongoing research and clinical data surrounding liver cancer.
From Fossils to Mind, Volume 275 in the Progress in Brain Research series, presents chapters on a variety of interesting topics, including What could our premammalian ancestors hear, see, smell, and touch?
Game-Based Learning in Education and Health, Volume 276 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Math computerized games in the classroom: a Number Line Training in Primary School Children, Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home, Game-Based Assessment of Cognitive Function among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Different aspects of fraction understanding are associated selectively with performance on a fraction learning game, and more.
Das Geheimnis des Bewusstseins liegt in unseren Emotionen»Wahrhaft bahnbrechend« Eric Kandel, NobelpreisträgerSolms, einer der kühnsten Denker der zeitgenössischen Neurowissenschaften, widmet sich zeitlebens der Erforschung des menschlichen Bewusstseins.
Das Geheimnis des Bewusstseins liegt in unseren Emotionen»Wahrhaft bahnbrechend« Eric Kandel, NobelpreisträgerSolms, einer der kühnsten Denker der zeitgenössischen Neurowissenschaften, widmet sich zeitlebens der Erforschung des menschlichen Bewusstseins.
