Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Direct versus Indirect Realism
A Neurophilosophical Debate on Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Direct versus Indirect Realism: A Neurophilosophical Debate on Consciousness brings together leading neuroscientists and philosophers to explain and defend their theories on consciousness. The book offers a one-of-a-kind look at the radically opposing theories concerning the nature of the objects...
The Neurobiological Basis of Memory
A System, Attribute, and Process Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This exciting volume offers an up-to-date tour of current trends in the neurobiology of memory while saluting Raymond Kesner's pioneering contributions to the field as a theorist and researcher, teacher and mentor. Starting with his signature chapter introducing the Attribute Model of Memory, the...
Dream Science
Exploring the Forms of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity. Yet there is little empiric or...
by The Editors of TIME
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In TIME's The Science of Alzheimer's learn more about this disease that steals the self as well as the human ingenuity and dogged persistence that gives us hope for the future in the fight against it.
Summary of Why Diets Make Us Fat
by Sandra Aamodt | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Summary of Why Diets Make Us Fat: by Sandra Aamodt | Includes Analysis
Preview:
Why Diets Make Us Fat by Sandra Aamodt debunks the fallacy that individuals can sustain significant weight loss through dieting and willpower.
Although people tend to view diets as a matter...
Psychoneuroendocrinology of Sport and Exercise
Foundations, Markers, Trends
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Psychoneuroendocrinology is the study of the interaction between hormones, the brain and human behaviour. This is the first book to examine psychoneuroendocrinology in the context of sport and exercise, offering a comprehensive review of current research and assessment techniques and highlighting...
Functional Kinetics
Observing, Analyzing, and Teaching Human Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Susanne Klein-Vogelbach's acclaimed textbook describing her concept of functional kinetics!
The well-known physiotherapist presents her theory concerning the systematic observation and analysis of human movement. The purpose of functional kinetics is to improve observation, analysis and instruction...
by William Paul Meehan III
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The devastating long-term effects of concussions and the apparent mismanagement of concussion treatment among college and professional athletes have received major media attention in recent years. Do athletes—especially young ones—and their parents understand the physical risks and potential lifelong...
by Giuseppe Vallar, H. Branch Coslett
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The Parietal Lobe, Volume 151, the latest release from the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, provides a foundation on the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and clinical neurology/neuropsychology of the parietal lobe that is not only applicable to both basic researchers and clinicians, but also to...
Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Integrating new research in neurobiology and psychology, an account of how the cultural environment shapes the brain and the implications for social theory of the decrease in neuroplasticity from childhood to adulthood.
Nerve-Driven Immunity
Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
“Nerve-Driven Immunity: Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System” summarizes, analyzes and sheds new light on an unrecognized, yet very important role of key neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the immune system.
Each chapter of the book deals with a different neurotransmitter/neuropeptide...
Memory: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Memory: Interdisciplinary Approaches arrays the most current research and thinking on the cognitive, social, and neural aspects of memory. An international group of experts discusses the domains of working memory and the modularity of storage processes while other contributors examine the social and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire, this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge, how they influence judgment and decision making, and how problematic desires can...
Around the Writer's Block
Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writing—and how to beat them.
Do you:
Want to write, but find it impossible to get started?
Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write?
Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could...