Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Introducing Mind and Brain
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious?
How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head – enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
Gut Feelings
The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.
Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make decisions is the cognitive, emotional,...
by Hope Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
This informal study of the ideas, actions and processes of humanity as a species provides grist for the mill in assessing to what extent human choice derives from free will. The author argues that humanity’s choices are so intertwined with long-term needs of the universe that we cannot deny that...
NLP Workbook
A Practical Guide to Achieving the Results You Want
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) studies brilliance and quality–how outstanding individuals and organizations get their outstanding results.
Joseph O’Connor, a leading international NLP trainer and co-author of the bestselling Introducing NLP, offers a step-by-step guide to learning the...
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations
Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success. Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of postmodern thought, which focus on smaller areas within psychoanalysis and, as a result, neglect the evolution...
Brain Power
Improve Your Mind as You Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement?Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring,...
Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism
How the Polyvagal Theory and Brain Plasticity Help Us Make Sense of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Outlining a new, optimistic way to understand autism, this concise and accessible book offers practical ideas to help children on the spectrum grow.
The Polyvagal Theory suggests autism is a learnt response by the body - a result of the child being in a prolonged state of 'fight or flight'...
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate"...
Introducing NLP
Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Some people appear more gifted than others. NLP, one of the fastest growing developments in applied psychology, describes in simple terms what they do differently, and enables you to learn these patterns of excellence.
Introducing NLP by Joseph O’Connor, a leading international NLP trainer...
Biomechanics and Motor Control
Defining Central Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Biomechanics and Motor Control: Defining Central Concepts provides a thorough update to the rapidly evolving fields of biomechanics of human motion and motor control with research published in biology, psychology, physics, medicine, physical therapy, robotics, and engineering consistently breaking...
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can occur through road traffic incidents, falls, or violence, and is therefore an extremely prevalent type of injury, constituting a significant burden on health care around the world. As more people are able to recover physically from TBI, it is important to consider...
Behavioural Approaches in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Optimising Rehabilitation Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thoroughgoing regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that underpin that practice. This book will prove an invaluable...
Neurocognitive Rehabilitation of Down Syndrome
Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Down syndrome is one of the most commonly occurring developmental disorders and it is now possible to conceptualize and define opportunities for neurocognitive rehabilitation for those with the condition. This book describes how early cognitive intervention in children with Down syndrome can be carried...