Neurology category: 2138 books
Nonmotor Parkinson's: The Hidden Face
The Many Hidden Faces
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Non-motor Parkinson's: The Hidden Face, Volume 133, the first part of the latest volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series, is an up-to-date, comprehensive textbook addressing the non-motor aspects of Parkinson’s disease, a key unmet need. Chapters in this new release include topics...
Listening for What Matters
Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The...
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...
Developmental Neurocognition
Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on the topic of "Changes in Speech and Face Processing in Infancy: A glimpse at Developmental Mechanisms of Cognition", which was held in Carry-Ie-Rouet (France) at the Vacanciel "La Calanque", from...
Applications of Neuroscience
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary research area that evaluates the structural and organizational function of the nervous system. Advancing research and applications in this field can assist in successfully furthering advancements in various other fields. Applications of Neuroscience: Breakthroughs...
Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage
Living in Halved Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book provides an overview of attentional impairments in brain-damaged patients from both clinical and neuroscientific perspectives, and aims to offer a comprehensive, succinct treatment of these topics useful to both clinicians and scholars. A main focus of the book concerns left visual neglect,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Neuropsychology has been concerned with brain-behavior relationships. Clinical neuropsychology has been concerned with application of relation ships to clinical problems. As interest in these topics continues, a spin-off from clinical neuropsychology has been the realization ofthe potential ofde...
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...
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,...
Brain and Mind
Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, memory, emotions, language, communication, trauma,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This volume answers the question: Why do we believe what we believe? It examines current research on the concept of beliefs, and the development in our understanding of the process of believing. It takes into account empirical findings in the field of neuroscience regarding the processes that underlie...
The Truant From Medicine
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The engaging, witty, fascinating memoir of one of New Zealand's most eminent neurologists and winemakers. It all began when Ivan Donaldson's girlfriend, Chris, gave him Hugo Johnson's book Wine in 1966. A light bulb went off in the mind of the talented, ambitious young doctor. A fascination with wine...
by Kailash P Bhatia, Susanne Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This issue reviews the role of metals in neurodegenerative diseases; including Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease; restless leg syndrome and NBIA disorders; and Wilson’s disease and manganese and calcium accumulation disorders. An update on advances in neuroimaging and pathology of metal related...
The Neurochemical Basis of Autism
From Molecules to Minicolumns
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A perceived rise in autism worldwide has led to a dramatic increase in autism research. This is a uniquely interdisciplinary text that presents the latest findings regarding the physiological, neuropathological, neurochemical and clinical elements of autism.