Neuroscience category: 1433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This volume assembles the leading aggression researchers both at the preclinical and clinical level. They review the current state of knowledge about neural mechanisms of aggressive behavior and point to the need for innovative methodologies to further our understanding of this greatly understudied set of behaviors.
by Peter Halasz, Robert Bodizs
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Dynamic Structure of NREM Sleep is a concise guide to Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP) phenomenology and slow wave homeostasis. It presents an original approach to a specialized aspect of sleep neuroscience in a concise and easy-to-read format.
The authors are specialists in the field of sleep...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This volume collects cutting-edge expert reviews in the oxytocin field and will be of interest to a broad scientific audience ranging from social neuroscience to clinical psychiatry. The role of the neuropeptide oxytocin in social behaviors is one of the earliest and most significant discoveries in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Drug addiction remains one of the most important public health problems in western societies and is a rising concern for developing nations. Over the past 3 decades, experimental research on the neurobiology and psychology of drug addiction has generated a torrent of exciting data, from the molecular...
The Brain and Conscious Unity
Freud's Omega
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
In this provocative text, a noted neuroscientist reexamines Freud's posthumously published Project of Scientific Psychology in the light of modern neuroscience. This expanded "thermodynamics of the mind" model includes robust conceptions of the cellular andneuralprocesses that accompany...
Cortical Connectivity
Brain Stimulation for Assessing and Modulating Cortical Connectivity and Function
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The study and modulation of cortical connections is a rapidly growing area in neuroscience. This unique book by prominent researchers in the field covers recent advances in this area. The first section of the book describes studies of cortical connections, modulation of cortical connectivity and...
Who Needs Emotions?
The Brain Meets the Robot
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data. By contrast, the editors of this book have assembled a panel of experts in neuroscience and artificial...
I Know What You're Thinking
Brain imaging and mental privacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body. Their routine use has made the diagnosis of brain tumours and brain damage both quicker and more accurate....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
This volume highlights the remarkable new developments in brain imaging, including those that apply magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), that allow us to non invasively study the living human brain in health and in disease. These technological advances have allowed...
Auditory Development and Plasticity
In Honor of Edwin W Rubel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This volume presents a set of essays that discuss the development and plasticity of the vertebrate auditory system. The topic is one that has been considered before in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (volume 9 in 1998, and volume 23 in 2004) but the field has grown substantially and it...
In This Moment
Five Steps to Transcending Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Little daily hassles can add up to big, big stress.
Whether you're stuck in traffic, hauling your kids out the front door in the morning, dealing with a demanding boss, or worrying about money, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Stress is a normal part of daily life; but over time, chronic stress...
by Ralph Myers, Vin Cunningham, Dale Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1996
Functional imaging of the brain is one of the most rapidly advancing areas of neuroscience and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a major role in this progress. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of PET and state-of-the-art neuroimaging. It is comprised of summaries...
The Claustrum
Structural, Functional, and Clinical Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The present day is witnessing an explosion of our understanding of how the brain works at all levels, in which complexity is piled on complexity, and mechanisms of astonishing elegance are being continually discovered. This process is most developed in the major areas of the brain, such as the cortex,...
The Hippocampus from Cells to Systems
Structure, Connectivity, and Functional Contributions to Memory and Flexible Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The hippocampus has long been considered a critical substrate in the neurobiology, neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience of memory. Over the past few decades, a number of ground-breaking theoretical and methodological advances have radically enhanced our understanding of the structure and function...