Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Executive Function and Dysfunction
Identification, Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Executive dysfunction occurs in many clinical conditions and has significant impact on multiple facets of life. This book summarizes executive function and dysfunction for practitioners, researchers and educators, covering lifespan development, assessment, impact and interventions. Drawing together...
Neurobehavioral Plasticity
Learning, Development, and Response to Brain Insults
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book describes a unique combination of research programs based on a striking variety of hypotheses and procedures directed toward understanding the sources and consequences of neurobehavioral plasticity. This remarkable attribute of the nervous system -- to be pliable and capable of being shaped...
The Emperor's New Drugs
Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Do antidepressants work? Of course-everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Two recent innovations, the emergence of formal cognitive models and the addition of cognitive neuroscience data to the traditional behavioral data, have resulted in the birth of a new, interdisciplinary field of study: model-based cognitive neuroscience. Despite the increasing scientific interest...
by David G. Lavond, Joseph E. Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book explores hands-on issues of how to implement classical conditioning experiments, describing many of the techniques and equipment used to discover the locus for a simple memory in the brain. It details circuit diagrams for instrumentation and software for control and analysis.
101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience—the physical makeup of memory—and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist: malnourished, contentious,...
Lerne lieber gehirngerecht! (E-Book)
Wie man neuronale Potenziale nutzen und erweitern kann
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Gehirngerecht lernen heisst die Potenziale des Gehirns nutzen und erweitern. Wer seine Lernmethoden ausbauen will, wer wirkungsvoll und zeitsparend lernen will, findet in diesem Buch 40 praktische Lerntipps. Diese werden neuropsychologisch begründet und mit bewährten Lerntechniken angereichert.
Karikaturen...
by Darcia Narvaez
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Winner of the Inaugural Expanded Reason Award: A wide-ranging exploration of the role of childhood experiences in adult morality.
Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning—of learning and acting in accordance with abstract rules. On this model, largely taken...
Visual Perception
Physiology, Psychology and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing,...
Open Minds
The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication.
In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is...
Discourse Analysis and Applications
Studies in Adult Clinical Populations
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Application of analytic discourse techniques to clinical practice is relatively recent. This book's contributors begin with the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a rich source of data for describing the complex relationships among language, social context, and the cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth handbook of qualitative research in the field of communication disorders. It introduces and illustrates the wide range of qualitative paradigms that have been used in recent years to investigate various aspects of communication disorders.
The...
Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production provides a comprehensive review and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse symptoms that speech-language pathologists and related healthcare professionals should address, and the different methods...
by George P. Prigatano
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
The study of anosognosia has witnessed an unprecedented increase in interest over the last 20 years. This has resulted in numerous empirical investigations as well as theoretical writings on the nature of human consciousness and how disorders of the brain may influence the person's subjective awareness...