Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

Originally published in 1992, this is a wide-ranging text concerned with the principles and practice of neuropsychological assessment in adults.

This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand.

Would it surprise you to learn that to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem, you need to get up and leave the room?

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality—intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience—are best understood as embodied yet contentless.

During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective).

The fourth edition of this text constitutes a continuation of 20 years of coverage of traumatic brain injury, and broadens the discussion of acquired brain injury.

The rehabilitation of intellectual impairment resulting from brain injury has become a major professional activity of clinical neuropsychologists.

Foundations of the Mind, Brain, and Behavioral Relationships: Understanding Physiological Psychology is an engaging introduction into neuroscience, and the portions of the nervous system, perception, and the clinical considerations in physiological psychology.

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be `unreachable' or `non-responsive'.

This volume presents peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14), which took place in July 2014 at Lancaster University, UK.

In the wake of fresh allegations that personal data of Facebook users have been illegally used to influence the outcome of the US general election and the Brexit vote, the debate over manipulation of social Big Data continues to gain more momentum.

Who's Afraid of AAC?

A scientific, uniquely factual account of the role of the brain in freedom and creativity.

Das Gehirn, das dynamischste Organ des menschlichen Organismus, vernetzt Körper, Geist und Verhalten und verändert sich auf Grund von Genetik und Erfahrungen während des ganzen Lebens.

The significance of art in human existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery.

Localization refers to the relationship between the anatomical structures of the brain and their corresponding psychological or behavioral functions.

Courts recognize that those who are involved in medico-legal proceedings have a stake in the outcome of their psychological assessment, regardless of whether they are high- or low-functioning individuals.

Broca's region has been in the news ever since scientists realized that particular cognitive functions could be localized to parts of the cerebral cortex.

New Horizons in Neurovascular Coupling: A Bridge Between Brain Circulation and Neural Plasticity is the latest volume in the Progress in Brain Research series that focuses on new trends and developments in neurovascular coupling.

Combines classic theories with current neuroscientific studies to explain the addiction cycle, focusing on neuroimaging studies and applications.

This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind.

En esta obra, el autor propone la creación de un modelo de análisis y tratamiento neuropsicológico de los disturbios de las funciones cerebrales que comúnmente afligen al adulto mayor.

This vivid memoir presents adventures from the life of Barbara A.

Our understanding of psychophysiological states are now more broadly defined by the inclusion of the lateralized ultradian rhythms of the autonomic and central nervous systems (ANS and CNS) that play a key regulatory role in mind-body states.

Viel zu häufig werden bislang Beeinträchtigungen Sozialer Kognitionen im klinischen Alltag, sowohl in der Diagnostik als auch in der Behandlung, vernachlässigt.

An injury to the brain can affect virtually any aspect of functioning and, at the deepest level, can alter sense of self or the essential qualities that define who we are.

This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century.

Die Psychologie-Professorin Woo-kyoung Ahn ist ein Phänomen: Ihre Vorlesung an der Yale University über das Denken ist eine der meistbesuchten, inzwischen müssen sie in den größten Hörsälen der Universität stattfinden.

Study Guide to Accompany Physiological Psychology Brown/Wallace accompanies and supplements Brown and Wallace's book on physiological psychology.

Neuropsychology as a field has been slow to embrace and exploit the potential offered by technology to either make the assessment process more efficient or to develop new capabilities that augment the assessment of cognition.

To an outside observer, Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) look like epileptic seizures.

When I heard the rumor that the findings about the central nervous system obtained with new technology, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), were too subtle to correlate with the crude results of many decades of behavioristic psychology, and that some psychologists were now turning to descriptions of subjective phenomena in William James, Edmund Husserl, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty-and even in Buddhism-I asked myself, "e;Why not Aron Gurwitsch as well?

The Oxford Handbook of Functional Brain Imaging in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences describes in a readily accessible manner the several functional neuroimaging methods and critically appraises their applications that today account for a large part of the contemporary cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology literature.

Methods in Chemosensory Research describes new molecular, electrophysiological, engineering, genetic, behavioral, psychophysical, and imaging techniques that have recently been adapted to investigate the basic neuronal mechanisms underlying chemoreception.

The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other.

This book is a primer on Stepped Care 2.

This book provides an overview of Asphyxial Deaths which includes hanging, strangulation, choking, smothering, gagging, drowning, aspiration, mechanical and chemical asphyxiants, etc.

With an array of critical and engaging pedagogical features, the fifth edition of Motor Learning and Control for Practitioners offers the best practical introduction to motor learning available.

Learn to Think Critically and Make Better DecisionsAddiction professionals make decisions everyday that impact peoples lives.

About 90% of people have faith in a supreme being, but our yearning for the divine, and whatever it promises, involves a large divergence in mental states and behaviors.

Bessere Menschen?

This title was first published in 1981.

This 5th volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity.

Alzheimer's Disease: Lifecourse Perspectives on Risk Reduction summarizes the growing body of knowledge on the distribution and causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in human populations, providing the reader with knowledge on how we define the disease and what its risk and protective factors are in the context of a life-course approach.

Belonging After Brain Injury: Relocating Dan explores the life of the author's brother who has dealt with the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for over four decades.

Advances in neuroscience research are rapidly redefining what it means to be human.

Neuropsychological assessments are now widely used to identify learning disabilities and shape educational interventions.

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

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Working with Voice Disorders offers practical insight and direction into all aspects of voice disorders, from assessment and diagnosis to intervention and case management.

First published in 1987.