Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

Neuropsychology of Left-Handedness focuses on the neurological imperative and unique brain organization of left-handers.

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.

Brain Oscillations, Synchrony and Plasticity: Basic Principles and Application to Auditory-Related Disorders discusses the role of brain oscillations, especially with respect to the auditory system and how those oscillations are measured, change over the lifespan, and falter leading to a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes.

This volume is a first of its kind, addressed principally to the professional reader.

This volume utilizes various neurological diseases as its organizing principle, focusing specifically on their personal, social, and cognitive consequences.

Authoritative clinicians present up-to-date, concise, and practical advice on the diagnosis and treatment of the most common sleep disorders encountered in general practice.

Neurovascular diseases and conditions, and their associated risk factors, represent a significant cause of cognitive disability in the United States and throughout the world.

Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective provides such a scholarly overview, examining the intersection of culture and such topics as evolutionary accounts of altruism and the importance of altruism in ritual and religion.

Many counselors learn about ethics in graduate school by applying formal, step-by-step ethical decision-making models that require counselors to be aware of their values and refrain from imposing personal values that might harm clients.

For effective use, this book can be purchased alongside the professional guide, Supporting Children with DLD.

Written specifically for the clinical neuropsychologist who does forensic consultations, the book is a comprehensive review by experts of the procedures available to evaluate malingered neuropsychological deficits.

First published in 1931, The Nature and Treatment of Stammering looks at the theories and causes of stammering as they were understood at the time.

Nutritional Modulation of Neural Function probes into the mechanisms by which ingested foods can exert such influences and modulate neuronal function.

Encephalitis is a devastating condition whose impact upon people should not be underestimated.

Human Measurement Techniques in Speech and Language Pathology gives an overview of elicitation methods in the assessment and diagnosis of speech and language disorders and explains approaches to the qualification of the obtained data in terms of agreement and reliability.

The idea of one's memory "e;filling up"e; is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it actually has no capacity limit.

Compiled reviews of the recent literature are a long established tradition in the laboratory and clinical sciences, and bring to their professions a useful and timely summary of the advances that have been made in the field.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY This wide-ranging and well-researched book goes well beyond the traditional confines of reproductive psychology.

This book is essential reading for health care professionals involved in the clinical care of cancer patients with neurocognitive problems.

Stress and Distress in Response to Psychosocial Stimuli is a book based on a study spanning over four years about the different psychosocial stimuli and the body's different reactions towards them, especially stress and disease.

Learn how you can boost your immune system and help prevent virtually every major medical conditionincluding cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, GI issues, and obesityby keeping your lymph system healthy, as explained by renowned cardiologist Gerald Lemole.

This is a book about speech and language.

Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes.

As you read this, you are probably unaware of how your left foot feels in your shoe.

This volume is based on papers presented at a Workshop on the Neuropsychology of Aggression held at Newport Beach, California in March 1974.

Memory: Neuropsychological, Imaging and Psychopharmacological Perspectives reviews critically the impact of recent neuropsychological and biological discoveries on our understanding of human memory and its pathology.

Grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about cognitive function and recovery from brain injury, this practical reference and text builds on the authors influential earlier work, Optimizing Cognitive Rehabilitation.

This informative text details the many changes in everyday life as the result of injury, illness, or aging affecting the brain.

Huntington Disease summarizes the most recent findings related to the disease, providing both cutting edge coverage for clinical/research specialists looking to expand their knowledge base of Huntington disease information, as well as solid groundwork for advanced students from various backgrounds (neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, genetics).

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart.

This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

While it is often assumed that behavioral development must be based upon both physical law and the biological principles of morphogenesis and selection, forging a link between these phenomena has remained an elusive goal.

Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) can cause blackouts, collapses, involuntary movements, loss of memory and have major impact on quality of life.

The psychological impact of an acquired brain injury (ABI) can be devastating for both the person involved and their family.

Treating Psychosomatic Patients: In Search of a Transdisciplinary Framework for the Integration of Bodywork in Psychotherapy offers a conceptual and therapeutic framework for all therapists who have to deal with the psychosomatic 'conflicted' body, as presented in anxiety and depression, stress and burn-out, medically unexplained symptoms and trauma.

Mitochondria and Neurotoxicity, Volume Thirteen in the Advances in Neurotoxicology series, presents interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Zack just wants to find other bees that look like him - and he meets some interesting and different kinds of bees along the way.

Are behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapies sufficiently broad in their effects on trauma-related psychopathology and related factors?

Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part B, Volume 267 in the Progress in Brain Research serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as the Neurosurgical Management of Tourette Syndrome, Stereotactic Surgeries for Opioid Addiction: Patient Selection and Results, Psychiatric Disorders as Indication for Surgical Management of Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy, Surgery of Autism: Is it Possible?

Asher the thresher shark is very shy.

Known for both its narrative style and scientific rigor, Principles of Behavior is the premier introduction to behavior analysis.

The usual method for studying mental processes entails taking words in linguistics -- or concepts in logic -- and establishing the connections and relationships between them.

Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it.

The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montreal in August 1996.

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.