Neuropsychology category: 992 books
The Man Who Lost his Language
A Case of Aphasia Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
The Man who Lost His Language is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.
When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia, followed every available medical trail...
Reading, Writing and Dyslexia (Classic Edition)
A Cognitive Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This is a classic edition of Andrew Ellis’ acclaimed introduction to the scientific study of reading, writing and dyslexia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book describes the remarkable skills of reading and writing – how we acquire them, how we exercise them as skilled...
Embracing the Wide Sky
A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating...
How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future
Why Left Hemisphere Dominance Has Brought Humanity to the Brink of Disaster and How We Can Think Our Way to Peace and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Our brains have numerous functioning parts, all of which serve us at any one moment. But decades of research reveal the existence of two basic brain “operating systems”—two fundamental ways in which the whole brain processes incoming information. Because of this phenomenon of brain dominance,...
How Do You Feel?
An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
How Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience the range of sensations and mental states known as feelings. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research, neurobiologist...
The Neurology of Consciousness
Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states, etc. Many of these studies...
by The English Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
There may have been many times when you wished you had it in you to change your life but you didn't think you knew how. Do you want to change something in your life right now? Do you lack motivation and enthusiasm? Do you feel stressed out by fear and regrets? Would you like to move forwards and get...
Screening for Brain Impairment
A Manual for Mental Health Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Written by top practitioners in the field of neuropsychological screening, Screening for Brain Impairment is the extensively updated new edition of the classic resource. Valuable to a broad range of medical and mental health practitioners, this new edition reflects enormous changes to the field over...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A single volume of 31 articles, Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on Behavior is an authoritative selection of relevant chapters from the Hormones Brain and Behavior 2e MRW, the most comprehensive source of neuroendocrinological information assembled to date (AP June 2009).
The study of hormones...
Cluster Analysis in Neuropsychological Research
Recent Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Cluster analysis is a multivariate classification technique that allows for identification of homogenous subgroups within diverse samples based on shared characteristics. In recent years, cluster analysis has been increasingly applied to psychological and neuropsychological variables to...
Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment:A Guide to Maximizing Brain Health and Reducing Risk of Dementia
A Guide to Maximizing Brain Health and Reducing Risk of Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
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. This is the first book written specifically...
by Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
A declaration of the neuroscientific human. Who are we? How does the brain produce our identity? Written in plain words for non-specialists, The unConsciousness Manifesto describes what it means to be human according to contemporary scientific findings. In no-nonsense terms, this brief pamphlet concisely...
How Is Your Brain Like a Zebra?
A New Human Neurotypology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Intended for the general reader as well as specialists, this book presents a fascinating new theory that posits three major brain types created by sex hormones before birth-Polytropic, Middle, and Focal. A brief scientific background is given first, and then the theory is illustrated with vivid anecdotes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
This book is designed to acquaint serious students, scientists, and clinicians with magnetic source imaging (MSI)--a brain imaging technique of proven importance that promises even more important advances. The technique permits spatial resolution of neural events on a scale measured in millimeters...