Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Affective Neuroscience : The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
Some investigators have argued that emotions especially animal emotions are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This comprehensive resource details the history, methodology and development of research into psychoneuroimmunology, balancing it with meticulous coverage of both the clinical aspects and practical applications of the subject.
A much-needed reference including overviews of key advances in the...
The Addiction Solution
Unraveling the Mysteries of Addiction through Cutting-Edge Brain Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A revolutionary and empowering paradigm in treating addiction based on groundbreaking new science.
For decades addiction has been viewed and treated as a social and behavioral illness, afflicting people of "weak" character and "bad" moral fiber. However, recent breakthroughs in genetic technology...
Motivation
Theory, Neurobiology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Motivation: Theory, Neurobiology and Applications is inspired by a question central to health care professionals, teachers, parents, and coaches alike, "How can an individual be motivated to perform a given activity or training?" It presents novel measurements of motivation developed in psychology...
Executive Functioning
A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF), as contrasted with "frontal-lobe functioning." Throughout the book, care is taken to stay true to the...
Dementia
Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Person-centered care for persons with dementia has been developed and expanded over the last few decades. Speech-language pathologists are uniquely positioned to understand the striking impact that communication challenges have on persons with dementia and their caregivers, and can lead the charge...
by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller.
A scientist’s exploration into the mysteries of the human mind.**
What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind’s contents—its emotions, thoughts, and memories—are often...
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies
Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account...
by Susan Greenfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
If you?ve ever wondered what effect video games have on your children?s minds or worried about how much private information the government and big companies know about you, ID is essential reading.
Professor Susan Greenfield argues persuasively that our individuality is under the microscope as never...
Psychosomatic
Feminism and the Neurological Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism,...
by Colin A. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In The Trauma Model, Dr. Ross provides a detailed, scientifically testable method of mental illness. He defines the problem of comorbidity as the central conceptual problem in psychiatry at the beginning of the twenty-first century, then solves it using the logic and predictions of the trauma model....
Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior
The Pharmacology of Drug Use Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Explore the brain and discover the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence. The authors, research scientists with years of experience in alcohol and drug studies, provide definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching illustrations...
by Bonnie Badenoch
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This book, part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, brings interpersonal neurobiology into the counseling room, weaving the concepts of neurobiology into the ever-changing flow of therapy.
Neuroscientific discoveries have begun to illuminate the workings of the active...
Treatment of Eating Disorders
Bridging the Research-practice Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Eating disorders (EDs) affect at least 11 million people in the United States each year and spread across age, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class. While professional literature on the subject has grown a great deal in the past 30 years, it tends to be exclusively research-based and lacking...