Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

What does it feel like to wake up one day speaking with a foreign accent from a country one has never visited?

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath.

Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work.

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images.

This edited volume bridges the gap between basic and applied science in understanding the nature and treatment of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems.

In this colourful illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Rusty the Robber, and the night he got caught.

A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the behavior analytic principles that maintain social justice issues and highlights behavior analytic principles that promote self-awareness and compassion.

Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences.

This book resolves to bridge the communication gap between research and clinical practice for circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders.

The Human brain is only 100,000 years old.

Although investigated for over 100 years, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how speed of information processing is affected in various clinical populations.

The long-held belief that acquired aphasia in children is primarily of the non-fluent type has been challenged in recent years.

Lifelong prosopagnosia has emerged as a key testing ground for theories of visual system organization, as well as the development and the emergence of neural specificity in the human brain.

This pioneering text explores the emerging discipline of ethorobotics which brings together the fields of animal behaviour and robotics.

I would like first to thank Charles Woody and his organizing committee for arranging the symposium on the "e;Cellular Mechanisms of Conditioning and Behavioral Plasticity,"e; which was also a satellite meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences 30th International Congress.

Want to understand the biological processes that underpin our behaviour?

The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries.

This book provides in-depth explorations of genetic cloning, including the history of cloning and the types of artificial cloning for both plants and animals, with fascinating examples.

This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego.

Understanding temporal integration by the brain is expected to be among the premier topics to unite systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience over the next decade.

This essential book offers an accessible, evidence-based guide to Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD) informed by the most current research, and clinical and educational practice.

This thoroughly revised new edition of a classic book provides a clinically inspired but scientifically guided approach to the biological foundations of human mental function in health and disease.

The Chatterbugs Manual is a practical resource for all those supporting the development of the foundation communication skills of attention and listening, turn-taking and early vocabulary in children.

There are two distinct views about the functions of our brains and their origins.

Nancy Andreasen, a leading neuroscientist who is also Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry as well as the winner of the illustrious National Medal of Science, offers here a state-of-the-art look at what we know about the human brain and the human genome--and shows how these two vast branches of knowledge are coming together in a boldly ambitious effort to conquer mental illness.

This major reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals.

Modern neuroscience is providing profound insights into nature's most mysterious puzzle -- the human brain -- while applications of information and computer science are transforming the way people interact with each other and with the world around them.

Down the Slide, part of the 'Words Together' series, has been created to support children to understand and use two-word sentences.

Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been understood very well.

The major focus of this book is on the differences between ecological approaches to action (`action theories'), and theories on motor control and learning couched in terms of information processing (`motor theories').

According to the World Health Organization, schizophrenia affects more than 21 million people worldwide, causing distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self, behavior, and hallucinations.

Unilateral neglect is a fairly common disorder, usually associated with a stroke, which results in a neglect or lack of attention to one side of space usually, but not exclusively, the left.

This book is the first to offer an overview of the increasingly studied field of face perception.

Theory of Mind Development in Context is the first book of its kind to explore how children's environments shape their theory of mind and, in turn, their ability to interact effectively with others.

This comprehensive volume brings together international experts involved in applying and developing understanding of Working Memory in the context of a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, and depressive disorders.

This is a summary of reports issued since 1947 under the aegis of the National Research Council's Committee on Vision.

How do individuals cope constructively with significant trauma?

"e;This book, in both its direct and indirect inferences, points to the need for disease-specific neurocognitive methods in broadly occurring CNS and non-CNS cancers.

Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from verbal descriptions of scenes or people.

Explains the concepts and practical methods of behavioural science in clear, concise terms: vital for understanding humans, animals and AIs.

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science.

Biodynamic therapy practices for optimizing the immune system and healing the spiritual suffering at the root of many modern ailments*; Examines the need to restore balance to the immune system through a deeper spiritual connection to the energies of the universe*; Shares unique biodynamic protocols to balance the metabolism with the cosmos as well as optimize the immune system and the function of the vagus nerveDrawing on more than 45 years of practicing Eastern medicine, Michael J.

This book is a primer on Stepped Care 2.

This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses.

Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human language processing.

Motor control is a relatively young field of research exploring how the nervous system produces purposeful, coordinated movements in its interaction with the body and the environment through conscious and unsconscious thought.

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing - vision is after all the main way in which we gather information about the world.

Advances in the Study of Behavior