Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Evaluations
Assessing and Helping the Whole Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments is a resource for neuropsychologists, psychologists, teachers and parents who wish to address both the neurologically- and emotionally-based difficulties with which their children are presenting. In addition to a thorough description of...
Selective Mutism (Psychology Revivals)
Implications for Research and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Originally published in 1981, this title was designed to present a comprehensive review of research on, and treatment of selective mutism. It represents the only systematic overview of research and treatment procedures on this behavioral problem at the time. In many respects the literature on selective...
Dialogue and Dementia
Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement. The book aims to identify and describe specific linguistic devices or strategies at the level of turn-by-turn talk that promote and extend...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The enormous human and economic toll of Alzheimer's Disease in societies in which more and more people are living into old age is well-recognized. Scientists and practitioners alike have been working to limit it. Their major focus has been patients in the later stages of the disease, when dementia...
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology
Evolving Practices in Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for: an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical practices. Interpersonal neurobiology and the development of exciting new technologies that allow us to better...
Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
New Frontiers in Clinical and Translational Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents around the world and represents a global public health issue. Major improvements in the medical treatment of the initial injury have increased survival rates resulting in the focus shifting to consider...
Memory and Mind
A Festschrift for Gordon H. Bower
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
A comprehensive overview of the current state of research on memory and mind, this book captures the career and influence of Gordon H. Bower (as told by 22 of his students and colleagues), showing how Bower's research and mentoring of students has broadly and deeply affected modern research. In addition to many personal reminisces about Bower's res
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language. It is however, eclectic and therefore should be of interest to professionals and students in education, linguistics, philosophy, sociolinguistics, and other concerned with meaning and cognition. The editors felt...
Psychophysiological States
The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Our understanding of psychophysiological states are now more broadly defined by the inclusion of the lateralized ultradian rhythms of the autonomic and central nervous systems (ANS and CNS) that play a key regulatory role in mind-body states. These neural rhythms are a unique step in the evolution...
Brain Injury Treatment
Theories and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury.
Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It explains the treatments used in brain injury...
Clinical Neurotherapy
Application of Techniques for Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Neurotherapy, sometimes called EEG biofeedback and/or neurobiofeedback involves techniques designed to manipulate brain waves through non-invasive means and are used as treatment for a variety of psychological and medical disorders. The disorders covered include ADHD, mood regulation, addiction, pain,...
by Richard Hastings, Johannes Rojahn
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of developmental disabilities. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and...
Depression and Drugs
The Neurobehavioral Structure of a Psychological Storm
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This book integrates the current state of knowledge on the association of neurochemical and psychological factors underlying the concept of depression or on the process and nature of the drug-induced changes that lead to recovery. Highlighting the results of two major multisite collaborative...
by Ronald G. Boothe
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Aimed at students taking a course on visual perception, this textbook considers what it means for a man, a monkey and a computer to perceive the world. After an introduction and a discussion of methods, the book deals with how the environment produces a physical effect, how the resulting "image"...