Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

One in ten adults over 65 has some form of mild cognitive impairment or MCI--thinking problems that go beyond those associated with normal aging, but that fall short of the serious impairments experienced by people with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.

Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language.

This authoritative clinical reference and text provides a complete guide to conducting empirically based assessments to support accurate diagnoses and better clinical care.

This volume of Progress in Brain Research documents research presented at the 26th International Summer School of Brain Research (Amsterdam, Jun/Jul 2010) and looks at how the oscillations that characterize brain activity vary between task performance - the EEG power and performance modulations, rest - the MRI default mode and other networks, and sleep - the cortical slow oscillations.

Moving beyond the debate over whether and to what degree mild head injury has lasting neuropsychological sequelae, this book is predicated on the assumption that it does cause some problems in some circumstances for some people.

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry.

The immense growth of research on implicit and explicit memory is making it difficult to keep up with new methods and findings, to gauge the implications of new discoveries, and to ferret out new directions in research and theory development.

This collection is the first of its kind to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the caseloads and clinical practice of speech-language pathologists.

This title was first published in 1981.

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.

Great strides have been made in the past several decades in clarifying brain- behavior relationships.

A bigger asset than IQ: The first book to introduce the newly discoveredand vitally importantmental skill known as working memory, showing how it is crucial to our success in work and life and how to strengthen it.

This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception.

An unprecedented book that discusses a decades long journey of understanding vision and visual impairment through working with patients with brain damage Edward de Haan, a noted clinical vision researcher for the last 35 years, explains how the healthy brain deals with visual information and reveals how he learned to appreciate what it means to be visually impaired.

Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world.

Perspectives on Aggression is a compendium of papers that discusses experimental research on human and group aggression.

This manual for clinicians presents a ground-breaking, accessible and unifying new model for understanding functional neurological disorder (FND) that bridges the gap between theoretical FND-specific models and the more practical, but non-FND-specific Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) models.

Help medical and other health care students successfully prepare for behavioral science foundation courses and examinations:- Comprehensive, trustworthy, and up-to-date- Quick access to information in case examples, tables, charts etc.

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century.

Despite a long research tradition in visual neuroscience, the rehabilitation of cerebral visual deficits has, until recently, been neglected.

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

Think your way to a more confident, successful you.

In the last decade, neuropsychology has grown from a small subspecialty to a major component in the practice of clinical and medical psychology.

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

This is the final volume in a three-volume work that has addressed the scientific methodologies relevant to clinical neurobehavioral toxicology.

This Compendium is a comprehensive reference manual containing an extensive selection of instruments developed to measure signs and symptoms commonly encountered in neurological conditions, both progressive and non-progressive.

The role of stress in the development of certain medical illnesses is increasingly recognised and there is a growing need to find effective psychological treatments that can address this factor in physical illness.

This Element addresses how listening to music influences emotional response, movement, and pain sensation through physiological changes.

This second edition (of the original Successful Private Practice in Neuropsychology) provides an updated overview of key principles and processes for establishing, maintaining and developing neuropsychology practice and neuro-rehabilitation program (NRP) treatment in medical center and/or private practice settings.

This book explains the neuronal basis of animal behaviour to final year undergraduates and postgraduates without needing detailed knowledge of neurophysiology.

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditions to complex learning and problem solving.

With growing numbers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) being diagnosed in the early years, it is becoming increasingly important for education and health professionals to understand ASD and to implement supportive strategies as part of the everyday curriculum and routine.

The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors.

This book provides in-depth analysis of the historical, philosophical, anthropological, political and neurobiological reinforcements of fear and the role of fear-on-fear interactions in the construction and maintenance of systems.

Mysteries of the Social Brain describes the scientific underpinnings of human behavior and values.

Intentional behaviorism is a philosophy of psychology that seeks to ascertain the place and nature of cognitive explanation of behavior by empirically determining the scope of an extensional account of behavior based on the limitations of a behavioral approach to explanation.

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

Grounded in research and accumulated clinical wisdom, this book describes a range of ways to integrate mindfulness and other contemplative practices into clinical work with trauma survivors.

Comment peut-on sourire sans lèvres ?

While brain injury can be a potentially devastating childhood medical condition this book explores the developing field of neuropsychology to suggest it is not inevitable.

Turmeric and Curcumin for Neurodegenerative Diseases examines protective mechanisms of turmeric products and novel nanotechnological therapeutics and biomaterial design strategies to circumvent Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's, and liver diseases.

Case Studies in Applied Psychophysiology What is it that separates those who are able to achieve greatness from those who are not?

How do we thrive in our behaviors and experiences?

Now in a fully updated second edition, this comprehensive and practical book outlines the theoretical underpinnings for vocabulary and acts as a 'how to' guide to developing word learning across the school and curriculum.

The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and the propagation of sound through air and other materials, the anatomy and physiology of the transformation of the physical sound into neural activity in the brain, and the psychology of the perception we call hearing.

As with the two previous editions, Barile's Clinical Toxicology: Principles and Mechanisms, Third edition, examines the complex interactions associated with clinical toxicological events as a result of therapeutic drug administration or chemical exposure.

As little as 10 years ago, it was believed that memory went from short to long term via one consolidation practice that made that memory intractable.

Originally published in 1979, the chapters in this volume summarize the available knowledge pertaining to a variety of functional - as opposed to explicitly organic - amnesias and disruptions of memory.

Current approaches to treating stuttering do not reflect the new understanding of its nature which has emerged from recent studies.