Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Dizionario di psicoanalisi. Con elementi di psichiatria psicodinamica e psicologia dinamica
Con elementi di psichiatria psicodinamica e psicologia dinamica
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Un testo di riferimento fondamentale e di facile lettura per chiunque desideri lavorare nel campo della psiche. Un Dizionario psicoanalitico che cerca di racchiudere l’intero apparato concettuale della psicoanalisi (rigorosamente descritto sia nella sua fondamentale impalcatura freudiana che nell’articolazione...
Toxic Cocktail
How Chemical Pollution Is Poisoning Our Brains
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In today's world, everyone carries a toxic load of dozens of industrially produced chemicals in their bloodstream. Not only do these adversely affect the health of adults and children, but also, and more worryingly, they damage the development of unborn infants. The amniotic fluid of pregnant women...
Evolution and the Emergent Self
The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in our genetic, neuronal, ecological, and ultimately cosmological settings, the author takes readers on...
by Ivan Izquierdo
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
How do we forget? Why do we need to forget? This book intends to answer to these and other questions. It aims to demonstrate that each one is who it is due to their own memories. Thus, distinguish between the information we should keep from those we should forget is an difficult art. In this book,...
by Leslie Wilson, Paul T. Matsudaira, Richard Nuccitelli
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1994
A Practical Guide to the Study of Calcium in Living Cells describes popular techniques along with helpful do's and don't's and computer programs. The volume enables investigators to evaluate confocal images, use the latest dyes, and design Calcium buffers appropriate to their research needs. This...
Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths
Psychiatry and Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, leading to several stereotyped models of horror that have prevailed through decades. Some scholars have proposed that horror films can be a teaching...
Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A radical approach to studying the mind.
Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind's role in the natural world. Raising profound questions about human nature, free will, and experience...
by Fabrizio Benedetti
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
One of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
This volume brings together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting...
The Moral Brain
Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated...
Alexander Romanovich Luria
A Scientific Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Alexander Romanovitch Luria is widely recognized as one of the most prominent neuropsychologists of the twentieth century. This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992, fifteen years after his death - is the first serious volume from...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become the most publicly recognizable example of a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions. The contributors to this volume, all internationally recognized experts in their fields, provide an introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Although some decades have passed, there are still worldwide controversies about a concept of human death on neurological grounds. There are also disagreements on the diagnostic criteria for brain death, whether clinical alone or clinical plus ancillary tests. Moreover, some scholars who were strong...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The advances in neuroimaging are occurring at a we wish to accomplish by bringing out a series of dizzying pace. It is difficult for trainees in radiology volumes, each dealing with a single theme. The first and others in neurosciences-related disciplines to one is in your hands. keep abreast of the...