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  • Near-Death Experiences

    Heavenly Insight or Human Illusion?

    by Birk Engmann ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The expression "Near-Death Experience" is associated in the popular understanding with access to knowledge about our transition between the states of life and death. But how should such experiences be interpreted? Are they verifiable with scientific methods? If so, how can they be explained? Attempting to relate matters of scientific knowledge to subjective experience and the realm of belief is a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Biology of Desire

    Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

    by Marc Lewis, PhD ...
    A renowned neuroscientist provides an “unorthodox but enlightening” (Wall Street Journal) narrative of how addiction happens in the brain, and what we can do to overcome itThrough the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist—and former addict himself—explains why the disease model of addiction is wrong and how it obstructs the path to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Executive Functioning

    Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment

    by Leonard F. Koziol ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Executive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning and-of course-theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom?Noting the lack of consensus concerning definition, component skills, and location within the brain, The Myth of Executive ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Your Conscious Mind

    Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human?The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram of brain cells is one of the greatest unanswered questions.In Your Conscious Mind leading brain ... Read more

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  • New Techniques in Systems Neuroscience

    Edited by Adam D. Douglass ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This volume is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent explosion of experimental tools in neuroscience that now make it possible to manipulate, record, and understand neuronal activity within the intact brain, and which are helping us learn how the many neurons that comprise a network act together to control behavior. Leaders in the field discuss the latest developments in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II

    Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations

    Edited by Michael S. Ritsner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2000 there has been significant progress in our understanding of the early presentations, assessment, suspected neuropathology, and treatment of ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • The Neuronal Codes of the Cerebellum

    Edited by Detlef Heck ...
    The Neuronal Codes of the Cerebellum provides the most updated information on what is known on the topics of the cerebellum's anatomy and single cell physiology, two areas where there has been a gap in knowledge regarding the specific codes it uses to process information internally and convey commands to other brain regions. This has created difficulties for researchers and clinicians looking to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Brain Asymmetry and Neural Systems

    Foundations in Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

    by David W. Harrison ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The proposed book investigates brain asymmetry from the perspective of functional neural systems theory, a foundational approach for the topic. There is currently no such book available on the market and there is a need for a neuroscience book, with a focus on the functional asymmetry of these two integrated and dynamic brains using historical and modern clinical and experimental research findings ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization

    An Integrative Neuroscience Approach

    Edited by Stefan M Brudzynski ...
    Series Book 19 - Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
    Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization is designed as a broad and comprehensive, but well-balanced book, written from the neuroscience point of view in the broad sense of this term. This well-illustrated Handbook pays particular attention to systematically organized details but also to the explanatory style of the text and internal cohesiveness of the content, so the successive chapters gradually ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Looking Inside the Brain

    The Power of Neuroimaging

    by Denis Le Bihan ...
    Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ...
    The remarkable story of how today's brain scanning techniques were developed, told by one of the field's pioneersIt is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These groundbreaking advances have opened infinite fields of investigation—into such areas as musical ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Neurobiological Basis of Memory

    A System, Attribute, and Process Analysis

    Edited by Pamela A. Jackson, Andrea A. Chiba, Robert F. Berman, Michael E. Ragozzino ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    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 first half of the book focuses on the central role of the hippocampus in processing dimensions of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Olfactory System

    From Odor Molecules to Motivational Behaviors

    Edited by Kensaku Mori ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book summarizes recent advances in understanding of the mammalian and fish olfactory system and provides perspective on the translation of external odor information into appropriate motivational and behavioral responses. Following the discovery of the odorant receptor gene family in 1991, understanding of the basic biological mechanisms of the olfactory system has advanced enormously. Despite ... Read more

    $143.09 USD