Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a terrible burden to bear. This book includes some of the symptoms of PTSD such as: Insomnia; Digestive disorders; Flashbacks and nightmares; Irritability, jumpiness, being easily triggered by events; Rage, grief and guilt; Anxiety, panic attacks, depression; and Feeling isolated and unsafe.
Explores the brain's remarkable capacity to adapt to its current visual environment. This work describes how visual experience alters the adult brain, fitting the mind to the world, and ensuring the efficient coding of sensory signals. It demonstrates how this plasticity affects every aspect of our visual experience.
A comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. It provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.
A study of motor learning and control for students who aspire to become practitioners in physical education and other movement-oriented professions. It opens with an introduction to motor skills and control, continues through attention, memory, and learning, and ends with a discussion of instruction, feedback, and practice methods.
Provides an introductory study of motor learning and control for students who aspire to become practitioners in exercise science, physical education, and other movement-oriented professions. This title offers an introduction to motor skills and control, attention, memory, and learning. It discusses instruction, feedback, and practice methods.
Expands on the fundamentals of motor performance and learning, providing supporting literature and research results in an accessible and engaging format. This title outlines the principles of motor skill learning, and develops a conceptual model of human performance.
Investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems and human behaviour. This book presents developments in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience resulting from traditional research methods as well as brain-imaging techniques.
Introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to a range of contemporary neuroscience. This book includes chapters, which are illustrated and provide clinical boxes describing experiments, disorders, and methodological approaches and concepts.
A leading text exploring the biological basis of behaviour. Drawing on their extensive teaching and research experience, the authors organise their text around the key questions that intrigue brain researchers and students alike. The specific neurological material is related to human experience throughout.
Focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain; and, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges - acutely and in the long-run. This volume provides an overview of the field of stress.
This book describes the torrent of data generated through research on the neurobiology and psychology of drug addiction, and discusses the role of mathematical and computational modeling in the development of more testable and rigorous models of addiction.
Focusses on the microgenesis of visual form and pattern perception. This edition uses the technique of visual masking to explore temporal aspects of conscious and unconscious processes down to a resolution in the millisecond range. It presents microgenesis within a broad context encompassing visuo-temporal phenomena, attention, and consciousness.
Suitable for undergraduate or graduate students from a variety of disciplines, including Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Anthropology, and Sociology, this work covers a range of topics relevant to Behavior Genetics, from an introduction to the field to the discussion of broader principles, all presented in an orderly sequence.
Features contributions from researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, and physics. This title uses advanced techniques and applications to analyze data obtained from studies in cognition, emotion, and electrophysiology, reviews them along with techniques for for examining lifespan cognitive changes.
Presents a selection of methods and techniques that may have value for clinical neuropsychology. There is an interest among clinical neuropsychologists regarding developments in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology. This book presents a view of methodological developments in experimental psychology and clinical neuroscience.
In psychology, visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eyes. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight or vision. The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system. This book presents research in this field.
Shows how it is possible to prevent and abort a panic attack through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation. Presenting an effective approach rooted in the philosophy of functional medicine, this book proposes using calming breathing techniques as the foundation to controlling the anxiety that causes panic.
Addresses the question of whether sensory channels, similar to those operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation, this title makes a case that channels operate in the processing of mechanical stimulation of the sensitive glabrous skin of the hand.
Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. This book explains how brains break down problems into useful, solvable parts and then assemble these parts into the complex mental programmes of human thought and action. It is suitable for those curious to understand how their own mind works.
To understand the mind, we need to draw equally on the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience. But these two fields have very separate intellectual roots, and very different styles. So how can these two be reconciled in order to develop a full understanding of the mind and brain.This is the focus of this landmark new book.
Clinical neuropsychologists are increasingly involved in the evaluation of civil capacities. This volume reviews the empirical literature on several of these civil capacities and provides a variety of practical, evidenced-based applications to improve neuropsychological consulting and report writing.
Neuropsychological rehabilitation involves many complex processes aimed at enabling people who are disabled by brain injury or disease to achieve their optimum level of physical, psychological, social and vocational well being. This issue draws together thinking, approaches, and methods in neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Presents an overview of what learning disorders are, how they develop, and how to diagnose and treat them effectively. This edition offers neuroscientific knowledge on a range of conditions, including dyslexia, autism spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A chapter on controversial therapies separates myths from facts.
The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thoroughgoing regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that underpin that practice.
How is it that there are only rarely major advances in the field of clinical neuropsychology? It has long been time for this question to be asked, and for an attempt to be made to bring about changes. This was the aim of the Toronto workshop. This book includes the communications from the main participants of the workshop.
This revised second edition reflects a continuing dearth of literature exploring ways of differentiating between conversion (and conversion-like disorders) and malingering in cases of head injury. Neuropsychologists need this systematic, scientific resource.
Written by 7 leaders in the field, this text covers the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience and makes clear the future challenges. Richly illustrated and including helpfull pedagogy, each copy comes with Sylvius 4, offering an interactive tutorial on human neuroanatomy and a digital atlas of human brain structure.
A comprehensive introduction for undergraduate students, Sensorimotor Control and Learning is a landmark book in the growing multidisciplinary area of human movement science that integrates findings from neuroscience, kinesiology and psychology to present a state-of-the-art account of how humans carry out goal-directed actions.
Clinical neuropsychologists frequently evaluate individuals within a forensic context, and therefore must address questions regarding the possible presence of reduced effort, response bias and/or malingering. This volume offers case examples involving complex differential diagnosis where symptom exaggeration and/or malingering cloud the picture.
Discusses how emotional pains suffered by the individual remain a part their unconscious for the rest of their life. This book develops measuring instruments that may serve as an aid in the recognition of the manifestation of the Pain Body, and also shows the degree of control over the Pain Body.
This work addresses the cultural, methodological, research and forensic issues that must be considered by neuropsychologists of Hispanic patients. It includes assessment decision trees, summaries of normative data, descriptions of tests, and HIV and paediatric references.
Offers a survey and synthesis of the important findings in the field of neurobiological mechanisms of addiction. This book includes an introduction, descriptions of animal models of addiction, and separate chapters on the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction for psychostimulants, opioids, alcohol, nicotine and cannabinoids.
Discusses about neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients. This book is of interest to those thinking about consciousness as one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions of our time.
This book analyzes our theoretical and empirical understanding of the sense of agency for consciousness, self-consciousness and action. It examines the relationship between action and its conscious control in both normal and pathological cases such as autism.
Explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate. This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality.
When someone commits suicide, family, friends and colleagues find themselves asking: Is it my fault? Could I have stopped it happening? This book presents a story and poems that help those left behind work through the feelings of guilt, anger, confusion, depression. It is for readers struggling with the suicide of a family member or close friend.
Episodic memory is the name of the kind of memory that records personal experiences instead of the mere remembering of impersonal facts and rules. This book presents an overview of developments in understanding human episodic memory and animal episodic-like memory in terms of concepts, methods, mechanisms, neurobiology and pathology.
Pediatric Forensic Neuropsychology is the premier reference text on the practice and process of civil forensic neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents. Written by an expert group of authors, this text is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for neuropsychologists who engage in forensic work.
Building on pioneering animal studies, and making use of noninvasive techniques for studying the human brain, research on the human amygdala has blossomed over the years. This volume brings together leading authorities to synthesize the knowledge on the amygdala and its role in psychological function and dysfunction.
A mood is defined as the prevailing psychological state (habitual or relatively temporary). It can relate to passion or feeling; humour; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. Moods can and do change often although mood swings of a sharp nature may be a symptom of underlying disease. This book offers research in this rapidly changing field.
Bringing together the most up-to-date and relevant interdisciplinary research, this book provides a resource for health professionals and students studying social work or for the health professions. This is a complete guide with a comprehensive theoretical background in the psychology of reproductive health.
Bringing together the most up-to-date and relevant interdisciplinary research, this book provides a resource for health professionals and students studying social work or for the health professions. This is a complete guide with a comprehensive theoretical background in the psychology of reproductive health.
A discussion of dyslexia in the workplace, designed for dyslexic adults and professionals concerned with helping them. It covers the nature of dyslexia and its effects, offering advice on tackling the difficulties. Assessment tests are described and reviewed and there are numerous case studies.
Presents the study of facial expression. This book addresses topics and questions such as the dynamic and morphological differences between voluntary and involuntary expressions, the relationship between what people show on their faces and what they say they feel. It also presents the research on automating facial measurement.
Covering topics of a biological psychology course, this book continues showcasing our understanding of genetic influences on behaviour with discussions of findings in regard to obesity, hostility and aggression, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, autism, and schizophrenia. It includes chapters on biological bases of intelligence and consciousness.
The Third Edition maintains the scientific rigour that lecturers and the discipline demands, while also fully engaging students with its conversational writing, clear explanations and well-crafted illustrations and intriguing application to everyday life.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, concepts, research and debates that are central to our understanding of the brain and the biological basis of our behaviour. This work is complemented by a range of pedagogical features and full-colour illustrations to help students develop and test their understanding.
The study of learning and memory is a central topic in neuroscience and psychology. This book provides a collection of overview articles representing fundamental reviews of our knowledge of this central cognitive function of animal brains. It is suitable for scientists and students in different areas of neuroscience and psychology.
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book focuses on examining how fear is experienced, how to recognise that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor oneself into letting go of beliefs about 'appropriate' responses to fear.
Mood is defined as the prevailing psychological state. It is further defined as a feeling, state or prolonged emotion that influences the whole of one's psychic life. It can also relate to passion or feeling. This book gathers research from throughout the world in this field.
A comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. It provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as the key methods and procedures of cognitive neuroscience, with a view to helping students understand how they can be used to shed light on the neural basis of cognition.
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely regarded as a modern classic in psychology and biology, grew out of his dissatisfaction with traditional natural science techniques for analyzing living beings.
How is it possible to experience color when no color is there? Why do some people experience touch when they see someone else being touched? Can blind people be made to see again by using their other senses? This book explores these questions which is suitable for those with an interest in the intriguing workings of the mind.
Includes coverage of the following to give managers an understanding of how emotional intelligence can help them at work: what EI and EQ (Emotional"ient) are and how they affect you as a manager and leader. This work also helps you learn how it is useful in developing your staff and how it can help in achieving a good work/life balance.
Shows the ways in which humour can be recovered for religion. This book argues that religion is diminished when it fails to understand and embrace its own historical connection. Its chapters deal with topics ranging from humour as an expression of intimacy to humour as the maintenance of the soul.
Auditory Scene Analysis addresses the problem of hearing complex auditory environments, using a series of creative analogies to describe the process required of the human auditory system as it analyzes mixtures of sounds to recover descriptions of individual sounds.
Investigations of the neural basis of theory of mind is the ability to think about other people's thoughts. This book contains articles which use a range of techniques (including fMRI, EEG, TMS, and psychophisiology) and subject populations to address fundamental questions about the cognitive and neural structure of theory of mind.
Motor Control is a complex process that involves the brain, muscles, limbs, and often external objects. It underlies motion, balance, stability, coordination, and our interaction with others and technology. This book offers an introduction to motor control, covering the psychological, physiological, and computational approaches to motor control.
Pitch perception can be regarded as one of the main problems of hearing. This book brings together insights from several different methodological areas such as: physiology, psychophysics, comparative, imaging, in addressing a single scientific problem. It provides a useful reference source for graduate students and academics.
Provides students with elementary information regarding the anatomy and physiology of various body systems, recording techniques, integrative reviews of literature, and concepts in the field. This book is aimed at upper level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in psychophysiology, biological psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
The authors - all part of an internationally recognized team working in psychoneuroimmunology or PNI for short - aim to provide a detailed account informed by the latest research. Among topics covered are stress and immunity and depression and immunity.
This book is a unique introduction to behavioral genetics, which offers unparalleled insights into how the topic is probed using evidence from humans and the major model organisms. It also demonstrates the major impact that neurobiology is having on our understanding of the field, to give a true depiction of behavioral genetics in the 21st century.
Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Drawn from the author's research and his experience with neurological patients, this book examines how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support the governance of human affairs.
A scholarly guide to human neuropsychology with a clinical focus throughout. Thorough coverage of brain evolution unites the study of its anatomy and physiology with an understanding of its cognitive, experimental and clinical psychological functions. The 6th edition is updated throughout and has a new 4-colour design.
Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations.
How do you feel when you bite into a pear; wear a feather boa; stand in a noisy auditorium; or look for a friend in a crowd? This title explains how people's individual sensory patterns affect the way we react to everything that happens to us throughout the day. It identifies four major sensory types: seekers; bystanders; avoiders; and sensors.
The third section, Luria's School of Neuropsychology, presents a collection of articles by authors who use Luria's neuropsychology (brain-behavior relationships), as well as directions developed after Luria's death, such as ageing and dementia, neuropsychology of psychiatry, etc.
Provides a summary of information about research into the psychology of humor. This book includes brain imaging studies, evolutionary models, and animal research. It draws on contributions from sociology, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology. It also explores applications of humor in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace.
Describes motor development during the first two years of a child's life, focusing mainly on the first year, during which the greatest changes occur in relation to the entire life span. This text is useful for students studying motor development and motor behaviour, and also for motor development, motor behaviour, and early childhood specialists.
A mood is defined as the prevailing psychological state (habitual or relatively temporary). It is further defined as a feeling, state or prolonged emotion that influences the whole of one's psychic life. This book gathers research from throughout the world in this field.
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. This work examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. It examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies.
Following the increasing amount of scientific research relating to autism, various dietary approaches are being advocated to help those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book provides an introduction to the clinical conditions that can cause autistic behaviour and what can be done to significantly improve many of them.
The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that true understanding of illness must take this psychosomatic dimension into account. This book looks at psychosomatics and psychosomatic medicine. It also gives descriptions of the main psychosomatic disorders and reviews psychotherapeutic approaches to treatment.
Describes empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience. This book presents discussions of empathy's evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a special focus on neuroanatomical continuities and differences across the phylogenetic spectrum.
Left-handers have been described as 'a people without a history'. This special issue provides scholarly analyses of aspects of asymmetry in history, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. It also describe 'A left-handed compliment', a newly discovered lithograph by John Lewis Marks (ca 1795-6 - ca 1857-61).
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. This work examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. It examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies.
Psychophysics is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell - in other words how matter translates into mind. This book also provides practical tips for designing psychophysical experiments.
Human motor performance is one of the fundamental aspects of the sensory-motor system. This book follows the improvement of motor skills in childhood as a function of enriched experiences or maturation, as well as illustrating how developmental studies on motor performance increase our understanding of perceptual-motor skills.
Describes the relationships between the characteristics of the sounds that enter the ear and the sensations that they produce. This book includes such topics as the physics of sound, the physiology of the auditory system, and frequency selectivity and masking. It is suitable for audio engineers, otologists, hearing-aid designers, and audiologists.
Takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion, this title examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. It is for those interested in the emotions and how they work.
Reviews the knowledge about various aspects of emotion and its role in human behavior. This work explores how emotion intersects with biology, developmental processes, social behavior, personality, cognition, and physical and mental health. It also presents perspectives on specific emotions, such as fear, anger, shame, and positive emotions.
A mood is defined as the prevailing psychological state. It can relate to passion or feeling; humour; as a melancholy mood or a suppliant mood. Moods may signify happiness, anger, tension, or anxiety. Chronic periods of any mood state may be an indicator of a disorder as well. This book gathers research from throughout the world in this field.
Discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion. This book also focuses on the component processes of emotion, their functions, and the ways in which these interact with the social environment. Each section is structured around specific approaches or models, and the questions that they were constructed to address.
Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to understand the impact of the intellectual, economic and political conditions on current views of the brain and how these models may in turn impact society.
In the past thirty years, face perception has become an area of major interest within psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and commanding review of the field ever published.For anyone looking for the definitive review of this burgeoning field, this is the essential book.
Covering eleven portraits of famous individuals with learning difficulties (including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison), this title provides brief profiles of two dyslexic scientists known for their ability to generate, in quite different fields, powerful but unexpected innovations and discoveries: William J Dreyer and John R (Jack) Horner.
Are you managing your brain? Or is your brain managing you? If you value self-knowledge, sooner or later you will face the profound role that the radically different perspectives of your left- and right-brain hemispheres play in your daily decisions. This book guides you in integrating these contrasting views of the world.
Presents information on the behavioral and emotional effects which can occur as a sequelae of TBI, and addresses issues associated with their differential diagnosis and the neurobiological mechanisms by which these might occur. This book is suitable for clinicians who practice as psychiatrists, behavioural neurologists, and clinical psychologists.