Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Darwin's Apple
The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Darwin’s Apple proposes a new explanation for the origin and purpose of religion within the incontrovertible theory of evolution. It describes how religion is biologically adaptive and genetically evolved through the co-evolution of religion, ritual, and advanced human cognition.
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Multicultural Neurorehabilitation
Clinical Principals for Rehabilitation Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Designing rehabilitation programs for patients who have suffered brain injury or disease is one of the core functions of clinical neuropsychologists. Ironically, the more that neuropsychologists have learned about the functional anatomy of the brain, the more they have realized how important the variable...
by Jeffrey Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Bringing interpersonal neurobiology and narrative therapy together.
Narrative therapy understands storytelling as the way we make sense of ourselves and life experience. Many non-narrative therapists have expressed great admiration and interests in the politics the work exposes, the way it...
Pensándolo bien
Una síntesis detallada del libro de Wray Herbert en sólo 25 páginas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Wray Herbert descubre el funcionamiento de los mecanismos mentales que nos llevan a emitir un juicio automático o a concretar una acción determinada. El concepto que revisa, el de la heurística, es fundamental para entender por qué los atajos intelectuales no siempre producen las mejores decisiones....
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This practical guide to understanding the cranial nerves as the key to our psychological and physical well-being builds on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory—one of the most important recent developments in human neurobiology. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a craniosacral therapist...
NeuroLogic
The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A groundbreaking investigation of the brain’s hidden logic behind our strangest behaviors, and of how conscious and unconscious systems interact in order to create our experience and preserve our sense of self.
From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities,...
Explaining Individual Differences in Reading
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades. In this volume, the authors of 11 chapters report on a wide array of current research topics, examining the scope, limits and implications of a phonological theory.
The...
Rethinking Learning Disabilities
Understanding Children Who Struggle in School
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The ubiquitous use of the Internet and social media is changing our society—in some ways, for the worse. Use of social media, the Internet, and other purely digital and less-personal communication methods are distorting the intellectual and social maturation of teens and preteens in particular—those...
Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action
Progress in Brain Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
This volume investigates the implications of how our brain directs our movements on decision making. An extensive body of knowledge in chapters from international experts is presented as well as integrative group reports discussing new directions for future research.
The understanding of how people...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
While many books have been written on the subject of sleep and dreams, no other resource has provided the depth of empirical evidence concerning sleep and dream phenomena nor revealed the latest scientific breakthroughs in the field.Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams: The Evolution, Function,...
Kabbalah
A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the...
The Law of Desire
On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed roadmap for each section of the essay, including clarifications of the allusions, implicit borrowings...
The Single-Neuron Theory
Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs. It suggests that conscious experience happens not at the whole brain level but at the level of individual nerve cells. The notion that the brain as...