Neurosciences Books
Harwood-Academic Publishers Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System
Book SynopsisDisorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, the fifth volume in The Autonomic Nervous System book series, is a description of the disorders which give rise to autonomic failure and orthostatic hypotension. Each chapter is prepared by an international authority in the diagnosis and treatment of that disorder. The language and terminology are clear enough to promote understanding of the clinical problems and the underlying concepts of basic science. The most recent data, especially that derived from molecular biology, is included in the discussions of relevant diseases. Hence, the volume provides an unparalleled source of information about this area of medicine and will be helpful not just to practising clinicians but also to basic scientists researching in the field who need to familiarize themselves with the clinical problems.Table of ContentsPreface to the Series — Historical and Conceptual Perspective of the Autonomic Nervous System Book Series, List of Contributors, 1 Introduction, 2 Brainstem and Cardiovascular Regulation, 3 Evaluation of Autonomic Failure, 4 Age-Related Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System, 5 Pure Autonomic Failure, 6 Shy-Drager Syndrome and Multiple System Atrophy, 7 Peripheral Autonomic Neuropathies, 8 Genetic Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, 9 Familial Dysautonomia, 10 Cardiovascular Disorders in High Spinal Cord Lesions, 11 Baroreflex Failure, 12 Orthostatic Intolerance Syndrome, Vasoregulatory Asthenia and Other Hyperadrenergic States, 13 Paroxysmal Autonomic Syncope, 14 Autonomic Responses to Microgravity and Bedrest: Dysfunction or Adaptation, 15 Orthotopic Cardiac Transplantation: A Model of the Denervated Heart, 16 Orthostatic Hypotension Induced by Drugs and Toxins, 17 Pheochromocytoma — Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis and Management, 18 The Non-Pharmacological Management of Autonomic Dysfunction, 19 Pharmacological Treatment of Orthostatic Hypotension, Index
£171.00
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Wie einzigartig ist der Mensch?: Die lange
Book SynopsisGeist, Lernen und Intelligenz.- Was ist Evolution?.- Der Geist beginnt mit dem Leben.- Die Sprache der Neuronen.- Einzeller komplexes Verhalten ohne Nervensystem.- Die Wirbellosen und ihre Nervensysteme.- Kognitive Leistungen und Intelligenz bei Wirbellosen.- Der Weg zu den Wirbeltieren.- Das Wirbeltiergehirn und seine Herkunft.- Sinnesorgane die Repräsentation der Außenwelt im Gehirn.- Wie intelligent sind Wirbeltiere?.- Die Gehirne der Wirbeltiere im Vergleich.- Was treibt die Hirnevolution an?.- Wie einzigartig ist der Mensch?.- Evolution, Gehirn und Geist eine Zusammenschau.
£17.99
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Das lesende Gehirn: Wie der Mensch zum Lesen kam
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£26.59
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Bewusstsein - ein neurobiologisches Rätsel: Mit
Book Synopsis1 Einführung in die Erforschung des Bewusstseins.- 2 Neuronen, die Atome der Wahrnehmung.- 3 Die ersten Schritte zum Sehen.- 4 Der primäre visuelle Cortex als prototypisches neocorticales Areal.- 5 Was sind die neuronalen Korrelate des Bewusstseins?.- 6 Die neuronalen Korrelate des Bewusstseins befinden sich nicht im primären visuellen Cortex.- 7 Die Architektur der Großhirnrinde.- 8 Jenseits des primären visuellen Cortex.- 9 Aufmerksamkeit und Bewusstsein.- 10 Die neuronalen Grundlagen der Aufmerksamkeit.- 11 Gedächtnisformen und Bewusstsein.- 12 Was man tun kann, ohne sich dessen bewusst zu sein: Der Zombie in uns.- 13 Agnosie, Blindsehen, Epilepsie und Schlafwandeln: Klinische Belege für Zombies.- 14 Einige Spekulationen über die Funktionen des Bewusstseins.- 15 Über Zeit und Bewusstsein.- 16 Wenn der Geist umspringt: Auf den Spuren des Bewusstseins.- 17 Das Gehirn zu spalten, heißt das Bewusstsein zu spalten.- 18 Weitere Spekulationen über Gedanken und den nicht-bewussten Homunculus.- 19 Ein Entwurf des Bewusstseins.- 20 Ein Interview.- Glossar.
£26.59
Taylor & Francis Ltd Neuropsychological Differentiation of Dementia
Book SynopsisAn adaptation of the author's doctoral dissertation (U. of Amsterdam, 1991), this volume reviews and synthesizes the neuropathology, cognitive theory, and practical neuropsychological assessment aspects of all of the major subcortical dementias from a neuropsychological viewpoint. For neuropsycholog
£80.74
Taylor & Francis Ltd Idea of Consciousness: Synapses and the Mind
Book SynopsisThe Idea of Consciousness examines the problem of how the working of synaptic connections might give rise to consciousness, and describes the current neuroscientific concepts and techniques used to identify and explore those parts of the brain that may be involved. This book will serve as an invaluable and stimulating introduction to the subject. Beautifully illustrated, it is a must for anyone who is curious about consciousness.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Consciousness and the Brain 2. Syntax, Sematics and Qualia in Consciousness 3. The holistic Nature of Consciousness 4. The Consciousness of Muscular Effort and Movement 5. The Distortion of Consciousness 6. The Evolution of Consciousness 7. Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics An Epilogue: Blade Runner or Einstein?
£115.00
Springer The Developmental Neurotoxicity of Lead
Book SynopsisOver the past two millennia environmental lead levels have risen dramatically (Patterson, 1980). Most of this increase has occurred since the beginning of the present century (Murozami et 01. , 1969), and taken into perspective, a typical individual living in the industrialized world sustains a lead burden 500 times that of his prehistoric ancestors (Patterson, 1983). Lead is unique in being an environmental pollutant where the levels deemed clinically toxic are less than an order of magnitude from those that are normally encountered in the population. The clinical limit for lead exposure, 70 JLg Pb/tOO ml blood, is about three times the 'normal' value (in the range 15-30 JLg Pb/100ml blood). This small difference is remarkable from the toxicological standpoint. The key concept here is control of dis persal. The industrial actions of man bring contact with a wide variety of substances, some of which are poisonous or dangerous. In such cases pro tective measures are taken to keep hazardous exposure to a minimum. In the of lead compounds, stringent regulations are production and distribution enforced. The exception to this is in the dispersal of lead from vehicle exhausts following purchase from the petrol pump. Perhaps man's long standing acquaintance with lead in home and industry is responsible for a complacency which until only recently has been unquestioned. Beginning in the late 1960s, evidence began to accumulate suggesting that lead at relatively low levels of exposure might be causing negative effects on neurobiological function.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Lead and man.- 3 Experimental models of lead administration.- 4 The behavioural effects of lead.- 5 The neurochemical effects of lead.- 6 The morphological effects of lead.- 7 Discussion.- 8 References.
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore Brain-Iron Cross Talk
Book SynopsisThis book explores the molecular mechanisms of iron hemostasis in the brain and discusses the cognitive and behavioral implications of iron deficiency. It presents the effect of iron dysregulation on neurophysiological mechanisms. The book provides an overview of iron metabolism and homeostasis at the cellular level and its regulation at the mRNA translation level. It emphasizes the importance of iron for brain development in fetal and early life in preterm infants. Further, it presents iron metabolism as a therapeutic target for novel pharmacological treatment against neurodevelopmental diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. It discusses the role of iron deficiency in sleep disorders and offers diagnosis and treatment of iron-related CNS diseases. Finally, it relates dysregulated expression of iron-related genes in brain tumors. Table of Contents
£179.99
Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd Handbook of H+-ATPases
Book SynopsisThis handbook on vacuolar and plasma membrane H+-ATPases is the first to focus on an essential link between vacuolar H+-ATPase and the glycolysis metabolic pathway to understand the mechanism of diabetes and the metabolism of cancer cells. It presents recent findings on the structure and function of vacuolar H+-ATPase in glucose promoting assembly and signaling, in addition to describing the regulatory mechanisms of vacuolar H+-ATPase in yeast cells, neural stem cells, kidney cells, cancer cells, as well as under diabetic conditions. Table of ContentsVacuolar H+-ATPase Assembly. Structure of Prokaryotic V type ATPase/synthase. The function of V-ATPase in the degradation of gluconeogenic enzymes in the yeast vacuole. The Role of Vacuolar ATPase in the Regulation of Npt2a Trafficking. Cytosolic pH regulated by glucose promotes V-ATPase assembly. Vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) activated by glucose, a possible link to diabetic disease. Vacuolar proton pump (V-ATPase) and insulin secretion. Role of V-ATPase, cytohesin-2/Arf6 and aldolase in regulation of endocytosis: Implications for diabetic nephropathy. Renal Vacuolar H+-ATPase Regulation. Long-term Regulation of Vacuolar H+-ATPase by Angiotensin II in Proximal Tubule Cells. Vacuolar H+-ATPase in Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis and Diabetes. Vacuolar H+-ATPase in Cancer and Diabetes. The a2 isoform of Vacuolar ATPase and Cancer-Related Inflammation. V-ATPases in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Vacuolar H(+)-ATPase : functional mechanism and potential as a target for cancer chemotherapy. Vacuolar H+-ATPase Maintains Neural Stem Cells in the Developing Mouse Cortex. The relationship between glucose-induced calcium signaling and activation of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.
£147.25
The University of Chicago Press Morality for Humans Ethical Understanding from
Book SynopsisWhat is the difference between right and wrong? Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical framework, this book argues that appealing solely to absolute principles and values is not only scientifically unsound but even morally suspect.Trade Review"In Morality for Humans, Johnson has his hands on what counts in life: how moral appraisals are not separate from intelligence, aesthetic sensibility, flexibility, imagination, or creativity. In fact, that is how the book unfolds, by showing the interrelationship of these constructs. The end is human flourishing, respect for the unifying sensibilities of our experiences and their complexities, and a positive sense of well-being." (Jay Schulkin, Georgetown University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Science and Emotions after 1945
Book SynopsisThrough the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. This book chronicles the curious resurgence of emotion studies.Trade Review"In this book of lively essays, the 1950s, with its cold war panic; the 1960s, with its women's movement; and the 1970s, with its totalizing market economies are here shown-along with many other historically salient moments-to be the unexpected catalysts of today's scientific culture. Science and Emotions after 1945 tells us not only why the sciences today are so interested in emotions but also how humanists can critique, use, and transform such insights in their own work on emotions." (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago)"
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Morality for Humans Ethical Understanding from
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The University of Chicago Press A Field Guide to a New Metafield
Book SynopsisMarshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a dialogue among the emerging brain sciences, the liberal arts, and social sciences. Demonstrating how formerly divided fields are converging around shared issues, this title maps a cross-disciplinary adventure.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Neuromatic
Book SynopsisJohn Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.Trade Review"Neuromatic is a fascinating exploration of the intertwined histories of religion and the brain. More than anything, it raises the question of the nature of belief — whether we can know the unknowable through these shadows that we chase around the cave of the skull." * Psychology Today *"A powerful intervention into how notions of the secular are proliferated and internalized. . . . An innovative and imaginative work that shows the inner workings of our commonsense understandings of ourselves and our world." * Reading Religion *"Among the great virtues of Neuromatic is to show how dark indeed have been systematizers’ assaults on the spirit in the cause of making legible the interior life, of making the brain the organ of reason and order. That project demanded strange machines, cruel experiments, and an extravagant credulity in scientific progress." -- Tracy Fessenden * Religious Studies Review Forum *"Neuromatic had my synapses firing like disco lights at Studio 54—its own kind of Dream Machine." -- William Robert * Religious Studies Review Forum *"What I see John doing here, a high and lovely and estimable thing, is a play with scholarly format via the CULTURE JAM. The book dismantles, sure, but it also creates a Gysin-like fog over the brain, so that Swedenborg’s angels can cavort with electric love therapists. Neurmatic is an irruption in the long attempt to figure out human difference." -- Jason Bivins * Religious Studies Review Forum *"While critical theorists of the John Modern variety might not be worried about violating religious taboos, they can be creeped out by scientific confidence in the ability to make everything measurable and intelligible . . . Throughout Neuromatic, there is a looming sense of calamity lurking behind human attempts to master the brain." -- Finbarr Curtis * Religious Studies Review Forum *"John has compiled the most beautiful and indeed meticulous genealogy of the conditions that allow the cognitive science of religion to constitute knowledge. He also shows the absurd humanity involved in that process. . . The scientists are Ahab, obsessively trying to chart the white whale, and John is Ishmael, somewhere in the ship, trying to tell a story about what is going on." -- Gabriel Levy * Religious Studies Review Forum *"This is a wild ride, engaging and rewarding." * Choice *"What do scholars of religion think about the methodologies and explanations rendered in the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)? In Neuromatic, Modern consults a wide range of empirical literature as well as humanist theory about the brain sciences to consider the relation between the concept of religion and the concept of the brain. His book. . . suggests it is not sufficient to study religion without also being aware of its position in broader historical and cultural contexts." * Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture *“A full immersion in that complex world of neuroscience with its many—and at times bizarre—applications, and the occasionally surreal world of cognitive science of religion . . . converging in the supreme attempt to reduce religion to that same pattern. This is an insightful book . . . impiously critical." * Reviews in Science, Religion, and Theology *"In equal turns frustrating, fascinating, and unique." * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture *"[A] fascinating and wide-ranging survey." * International Society for Science and Religion *"Modern balances the academic and the bizarre with a colorful cast of characters from history, from religious scholars to scientists to psychics. There’s something for anyone with a curious mind." * LNP *“This book is magisterial in scope—masterfully researched, carefully considered, subtly theorized, and energetically executed. Wrangling published, archival, and media sources into a deliberately nonlinear genealogy, Neuromatic will be essential for scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and science studies.” * Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University *“Neuromatic is equal parts brilliant critical analysis and affectionate polemic. I strongly recommend it to my colleagues in the cognitive sciences who should know about the metaphysical skeletons in our closets. I recommend it to everyone else because reading it is so much fun.” * Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati *“Neuromatic, though masquerading as both a poke at the smugness of supposedly secular science and a plea against reductionism, is up to something more interesting: anamnesis. It wants us to stop forgetting everything that went into making the brain the font of all order—pills, electro-shock therapy, EEGs, TV screens, cognitive anthropology and other findings from the twilight zone of cybernetics. With flashes of insight going off in an antic zigzag logic, Neuromatic fires on as many synapses as the “enchanted loom” of the brain itself. Modern, a library cormorant of the first order, provides a history of oddballs and kooks, including some heroes of postwar science, and I ended up not being able to tell them apart. I found my brain happily scrambled after reading this book. Neuromatic gleefully demonstrates how the effort to create binaries of pure-dirty, science-kookiness, truth-fabrication, sobriety-credulity, secular-religious fails again and again. An ultimately sane plea to linger in the midworld." * John Durham Peters, Yale University *Table of ContentsPrologue: Already Gone Introduction Saturation Approaching the Neuromatic (with a Short Engineering Aside) Blurred Lines Cybernetics and the Question of Religion Cybernetic Theses of Secularization Poetics Synaptic Gap: Measuring Religion I. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion False Positives The Cognitive Science of Religion The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device Distinguishing Marks on a Screen Breaking the Spell Northampton Jonathan Edwards, Hyperactive Agency Detector Detecting the Life of the Brain Agents like Us Cheap Tricks Synaptic Gap: The Information of History II. Neither Matter nor Spirit: Toward a Genealogy of Information Hard Problems Neuromatic Piety: An Overview Ether and the Permeation of the Interspaces Emanuel Swedenborg, Neuroscientist Ghosts of Swedenborg Mental Slavery and the Invention of Spirituality The Diakka and Their Earthly Victims The Mediomaniacal Origins of American Neurology Prehistories of Electroencephalography Brain Waves and Tremulating Information Biofeedback and the Experience of Correspondence The Ontology of Information Concluding Thoughts on Perceptronium Synaptic Gap: Too Much Too Soon III. Imagining the Neuromatic Crash and Burn Opening Scene from a Cybernetic Demimonde Elective Affinities The Mechanics of Mediumship Images of an Oracle Thought Dictated in the Absence of All Control Cut-Ups From Voodoo Death to Virology Engrams and Auditing Past Lives of the Neuromatic Brain Exteriorization Break Through in Grey Room Synaptic Gap: White Machinery IV. Histories of Electric Shock Therapy circa 1978 Of Systems, Sex, and Secular Conversion Moral Treatment and Heads That Differ in Shape Gendered Electricity in the Neuromatic Groove The Operationalization of Napa State Insane Asylum Patients’ Rights The Shaving of Leonard Frank’s Beard Electric Love Therapy The Business of Marriage The Union of All Contradictory Ideas I Watch TV, I Watch TV Live from Napa State Synaptic Gap: Belief Molecules Conclusion: The Elementary Forms of Neuromatic Life Totemic Systems Big Science Artificial Intelligence Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Neuromatic Or A Particular History of Religion
Book SynopsisJohn Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.Trade Review"Neuromatic is a fascinating exploration of the intertwined histories of religion and the brain. More than anything, it raises the question of the nature of belief — whether we can know the unknowable through these shadows that we chase around the cave of the skull." * Psychology Today *"A powerful intervention into how notions of the secular are proliferated and internalized. . . . An innovative and imaginative work that shows the inner workings of our commonsense understandings of ourselves and our world." * Reading Religion *"Among the great virtues of Neuromatic is to show how dark indeed have been systematizers’ assaults on the spirit in the cause of making legible the interior life, of making the brain the organ of reason and order. That project demanded strange machines, cruel experiments, and an extravagant credulity in scientific progress." -- Tracy Fessenden * Religious Studies Review Forum *"Neuromatic had my synapses firing like disco lights at Studio 54—its own kind of Dream Machine." -- William Robert * Religious Studies Review Forum *"What I see John doing here, a high and lovely and estimable thing, is a play with scholarly format via the CULTURE JAM. The book dismantles, sure, but it also creates a Gysin-like fog over the brain, so that Swedenborg’s angels can cavort with electric love therapists. Neurmatic is an irruption in the long attempt to figure out human difference." -- Jason Bivins * Religious Studies Review Forum *"While critical theorists of the John Modern variety might not be worried about violating religious taboos, they can be creeped out by scientific confidence in the ability to make everything measurable and intelligible . . . Throughout Neuromatic, there is a looming sense of calamity lurking behind human attempts to master the brain." -- Finbarr Curtis * Religious Studies Review Forum *"John has compiled the most beautiful and indeed meticulous genealogy of the conditions that allow the cognitive science of religion to constitute knowledge. He also shows the absurd humanity involved in that process. . . The scientists are Ahab, obsessively trying to chart the white whale, and John is Ishmael, somewhere in the ship, trying to tell a story about what is going on." -- Gabriel Levy * Religious Studies Review Forum *"This is a wild ride, engaging and rewarding." * Choice *"What do scholars of religion think about the methodologies and explanations rendered in the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)? In Neuromatic, Modern consults a wide range of empirical literature as well as humanist theory about the brain sciences to consider the relation between the concept of religion and the concept of the brain. His book. . . suggests it is not sufficient to study religion without also being aware of its position in broader historical and cultural contexts." * Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture *“A full immersion in that complex world of neuroscience with its many—and at times bizarre—applications, and the occasionally surreal world of cognitive science of religion . . . converging in the supreme attempt to reduce religion to that same pattern. This is an insightful book . . . impiously critical." * Reviews in Science, Religion, and Theology *"In equal turns frustrating, fascinating, and unique." * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture *"[A] fascinating and wide-ranging survey." * International Society for Science and Religion *"Modern balances the academic and the bizarre with a colorful cast of characters from history, from religious scholars to scientists to psychics. There’s something for anyone with a curious mind." * LNP *“This book is magisterial in scope—masterfully researched, carefully considered, subtly theorized, and energetically executed. Wrangling published, archival, and media sources into a deliberately nonlinear genealogy, Neuromatic will be essential for scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and science studies.” * Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University *“Neuromatic is equal parts brilliant critical analysis and affectionate polemic. I strongly recommend it to my colleagues in the cognitive sciences who should know about the metaphysical skeletons in our closets. I recommend it to everyone else because reading it is so much fun.” * Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati *“Neuromatic, though masquerading as both a poke at the smugness of supposedly secular science and a plea against reductionism, is up to something more interesting: anamnesis. It wants us to stop forgetting everything that went into making the brain the font of all order—pills, electro-shock therapy, EEGs, TV screens, cognitive anthropology and other findings from the twilight zone of cybernetics. With flashes of insight going off in an antic zigzag logic, Neuromatic fires on as many synapses as the “enchanted loom” of the brain itself. Modern, a library cormorant of the first order, provides a history of oddballs and kooks, including some heroes of postwar science, and I ended up not being able to tell them apart. I found my brain happily scrambled after reading this book. Neuromatic gleefully demonstrates how the effort to create binaries of pure-dirty, science-kookiness, truth-fabrication, sobriety-credulity, secular-religious fails again and again. An ultimately sane plea to linger in the midworld." * John Durham Peters, Yale University *Table of ContentsPrologue: Already Gone Introduction Saturation Approaching the Neuromatic (with a Short Engineering Aside) Blurred Lines Cybernetics and the Question of Religion Cybernetic Theses of Secularization Poetics Synaptic Gap: Measuring Religion I. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion False Positives The Cognitive Science of Religion The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device Distinguishing Marks on a Screen Breaking the Spell Northampton Jonathan Edwards, Hyperactive Agency Detector Detecting the Life of the Brain Agents like Us Cheap Tricks Synaptic Gap: The Information of History II. Neither Matter nor Spirit: Toward a Genealogy of Information Hard Problems Neuromatic Piety: An Overview Ether and the Permeation of the Interspaces Emanuel Swedenborg, Neuroscientist Ghosts of Swedenborg Mental Slavery and the Invention of Spirituality The Diakka and Their Earthly Victims The Mediomaniacal Origins of American Neurology Prehistories of Electroencephalography Brain Waves and Tremulating Information Biofeedback and the Experience of Correspondence The Ontology of Information Concluding Thoughts on Perceptronium Synaptic Gap: Too Much Too Soon III. Imagining the Neuromatic Crash and Burn Opening Scene from a Cybernetic Demimonde Elective Affinities The Mechanics of Mediumship Images of an Oracle Thought Dictated in the Absence of All Control Cut-Ups From Voodoo Death to Virology Engrams and Auditing Past Lives of the Neuromatic Brain Exteriorization Break Through in Grey Room Synaptic Gap: White Machinery IV. Histories of Electric Shock Therapy circa 1978 Of Systems, Sex, and Secular Conversion Moral Treatment and Heads That Differ in Shape Gendered Electricity in the Neuromatic Groove The Operationalization of Napa State Insane Asylum Patients’ Rights The Shaving of Leonard Frank’s Beard Electric Love Therapy The Business of Marriage The Union of All Contradictory Ideas I Watch TV, I Watch TV Live from Napa State Synaptic Gap: Belief Molecules Conclusion: The Elementary Forms of Neuromatic Life Totemic Systems Big Science Artificial Intelligence Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Trialectic The Confluence of Law Neuroscience and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Trialectic is an ambitious, far-ranging book about morality and human agency whose goal is to reconcile radically different ways of understanding people and thereby re-envision the law. Alces has no illusions that this will be easy but he knows the territory well, focusing instead on practical interpretations of morality and their implications for law. In the process we are treated to many fascinating excursions into law, neuroscience, psychology, and evolution.” -- Martha J. Farah | University of Pennsylvania"Peter Alces bravely explores the legal implications of the fact that, as we are mechanistic, biological organisms, moral responsibility and free will are fictions. Believing otherwise, in his succinct words, 'may cost more, in harm, than law can afford.' Alces makes his case with nuanced, provocative ideas and elegant writing. This should be required reading for anyone believing that all the criminal justice system needs is some reforming." -- Robert Sapolsky | author of “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" | Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsRead This First (Spoiler Alert) 1 The Plan 2 Tensions 3 “Neurosciences” 4 The Mechanics of “Morality” 5 The Cost of “Morality” 6 An Extreme Position, Indeed Coda: But . . . “What Is the Best Argument against Your Thesis?” Innocent Accessories (Before and After the Fact): Revealed Notes Bibliography Index
£85.00
Columbia University Press Contemplative Science
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvocative, challenging, and engaging, Contemplative Science should be read by all serious students of the mind, scientists, contemplatives, and religious scholars alike. Alan Wallace has a breathtaking command of knowledge rooted in Buddhism but embracing the physical and cognitive sciences and most importantly informed by meditation practice. This book will help set the stage for a unique development in the twenty-first-century--a genuine collaboration between the contemplative traditions and Western science. -- Richard J. Davidson, William James and Vilas Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Contemplative Science is a must read for anyone interested in consciousness. Alan Wallace challenges neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and Buddhists, with lucid, provocative scholarship. -- Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco, and author of Emotions Revealed [From] one of the most prominent voices in the discussions... Contemplative Science is a useful primer. -- Benjamin Bogin Buddhadharma Wallace makes a strong case. -- George Scialabba Boston Globe A copy should go to every scientist - both physical and contemplative - in the land. -- David Fontana The Scientific and Medical NetworkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 - Principles of Contemplative Science 2 - Where Science and Religion Collide 3 - The Study of Consciousness, East and West 4 - Spiritual Awakening and Objective Knowledge 5 - Buddhist Nontheism, Polytheism, and Monotheism 6 - Worlds of Intersubjectivity 7 - Samatha: The Contemplative Refinement of Attention 8 - Beyond Idolatry: The Renaissance of a Spirit of Empiricism Notes Bibliography
£22.50
Columbia University Press Consciousness and Mental Life
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£38.25
Columbia University Press The Origins of Schizophrenia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the origins introduction to the origins of schizophrenia, which brings together a large amount of recent work in a readable and critical manner. -- Michael Owen The British Journal of PsychiatryTable of ContentsForeword, by Robert Freedman Acknowledgments Introduction, by Alan S. Brown and Paul H. Patterson Overview: Schizophrenia and the Lifetime Trajectory of Psychotic Illness: Developmental Neuroscience and Pathobiology, Redux, by John L. Waddington, Robin J. Hennessy, Colm M. P. O'Tuathaigh, Olabisi Owoeye, and Vincent Russell Part 1. Clinical Research on Risk Factors for Schizophrenia Section 1. Environmental Factors: Epidemiologic Studies on the Etiologies of Schizophrenia 1. Maternal Infection and Schizophrenia, by Alan S. Brown 2. Prenatal Nutrition and the Etiology of Schizophrenia, by Kristin N. Harper and Alan S. Brown 3. Obstetric Complications and Schizophrenia: Historical Overview and New Directions, by Mary Clarke, Sarah Roddy, and Mary Cannon 4. Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia, by Mary C. Iampietro and Lauren M. Ellman 5. Advancing Paternal Age and the Risk for Schizophrenia, by Sarah Crystal, Karine Kleinhaus, Mary Perrin, and Dolores Malaspina 6. Cannabis Use as a Component Cause of Schizophrenia, by Paola Casadio, Marta Di Forti, and Robin M. Murray Section 2. Genetics and Epigenetics 7. Schizophrenia Genetics: What Have We Learned from Genomewide Association Studies?, by Alan R. Sanders, Jubao Duan, and Pablo V. Gejman 8. Genetic Architecture of Schizophrenia: The Contribution of Copy Number Variation, by Maria Karayiorgou, Rebecca J. Levy, and Bin Xu 9. The Epigenetics of Schizophrenia, by Iris Cheung, Mira Jakovcevski, and Schahram Akbarian Part 2. Preclinical Research on Etiologies of Schizophrenia Section 1. Animal Models of Environmental Factors and Schizophrenia 10. Animal Models of the Maternal Infection Risk Factor for Schizophrenia, by Paul H. Patterson 11. Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia, by Xiaoying Cui, Darryl W. Eyles, Thomas H. J. Burne, and John J. McGrath 12. Animal Models of Prenatal Protein Malnutrition Relevant for Schizophrenia, by Lisa M. Tarantino, Teresa M. Reyes, and Abraham A. Palmer 13. Animal Models of the Maternal Stress Risk Factor for Schizophrenia, by Paul H. Patterson Section 2. Animal Models of Genetic Factors and Schizophrenia 14. DISC1: A New Paradigm for Schizophrenia and Biological Psychiatry, by David Porteous 15. Mutant Models of Nrg1 and ErbB4: Abnormalities of Brain Structures, Functions, and Behaviors Relevant to Schizophrenia, by Yachi Chen, Lorna W. Role, and David A. Talmage List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Self and Emotional Life
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSelf and Emotional Life is a timely and wholly original intervention into one of the most debated questions of recent years: the place of the affects in psychoanalytic, neuroscientific, and philosophical accounts of the subject. It is doubly valuable in being authored by two scholars of the stature of Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou, philosophers whose range and depth of erudition in recent and emerging scholarship in the neurosciences (especially work on the 'emotional brain') and in clinical psychoanalysis seem to be without peer among scholars working at this intersection today. -- Tracy McNulty, Cornell University While neuroscientists joyfully proclaim the death of philosophy and psychoanalysis, Self and Emotional Life enacts the necessary countermove. It conclusively demonstrates, from a strict materialist standpoint, how brain sciences cannot account for the unconscious processes discovered by Freud and how they remain entangled in a cobweb of their own philosophical presuppositions. The book's subtitle could have been 'prolegomena to any future relationship between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurosciences'-which is why it should be read by everyone in these fields. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End I have often been surprised by how Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis has managed to ignore biology and at times even reject it. It made no sense to me, and it clearly makes no sense to Johnston and Malabou, who embrace neurobiology and are enriched by it. Their book makes for valuable and often pleasurable reading. -- Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain This book flows from the obvious conviction that a philosophy of subjectivity simply cannot ignore the body and must engage with today's biological sciences. The authors' conviction that the link between the subject and the body is best theorized in relation to affect is perhaps less obvious to some, but surely equally correct. It is no surprise, then, that their book touches on many of the deepest questions confronting the mental sciences of our time. It will provoke much disputation-even outrage-yet it focuses our attention on just the right questions. -- Mark Solms, author of The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience a major contribution to the important materialist turn in continental philosophy. -- John Protevi Notre Dame Philosophical Review ... Postulating common ground between [neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy], and a language for mutual understanding, is the uncommon achievement of Johnston's and Malabou's book. Irish Left ReviewTable of ContentsPreface: From Nonfeeling to Misfeeling-Affects Between Trauma and the Unconscious Acknowledgments Part I. Go Wonder: Subjectivity and Affects in Neurobiological Times (Catherine Malabou) Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain 1. What Does "of" Mean in Descartes's Expression "The Passions of the Soul"? 2. A "Self-Touching You": Derrida and Descartes 3. The Neural Self: Damasio Meets Descartes 4. Affects Are Always Affects of Essence: Book 3 of Spinoza's Ethics 5. The Face and the Close-Up: Deleuze's Spinozist Approach to Descartes 6. Damasio as a Reader of Spinoza 7. On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, and the Loss of Affects: The Two Meanings of Plasticity Conclusion Part II. Misfelt Feelings: Unconscious Affect Between Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Philosophy (Adrian Johnston) 8. Guilt and the Feel of Feeling: Toward a New Conception of Affects 9. Feeling Without Feeling: Freud and the Unresolved Problem of Unconscious Guilt 10. Affects, Emotions, and Feelings: Freud's Metapsychologies of Affective Life 11. From Signifiers to Jouis-sens: Lacan's Senti-ments and Affectuations 12. Emotional Life After Lacan: From Psychoanalysis to the Neurosciences 13. Affects Are Signifiers: The Infinite Judgment of a Lacanian Affective Neuroscience Postface: The Paradoxes of the Principle of Constancy Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe suggestion brought to the fore by Flanagan and Wallace-that Buddhism may be a source of insight in these areas-is a welcome and tantalizing one. -- Daniel Stoljar Nature This book is a stirring attack on the hubris and blind spots of the scientific establishment, combined with an engaging presentation of Buddhist wisdom as the antidote. -- Joseph S. O'Leary Japan TimesTable of ContentsPrologue: Skepticism in Buddhism and Science Part I: Restoring Our Human Nature 1. Toward a Revolution in the Mind Sciences 2. Buddhism and Science: Confrontation and Collaboration 3. Buddhism and the Mind Sciences 4. A Three-Dimensional Science of Mind 5. Restoring Meaning to the Universe 6. What Makes Us Human? Scientific and Buddhist Views 7. Achieving Free Will Part II: Transcending Our Human Nature 8. Buddhist Radical Empiricism 9. From Agnosticism to Gnosticism 10. A Buddhist Model of Optimal Mental Health 11. Mindfulness in the Mind Sciences and in Buddhism 12. Shamatha and Vipashyana in the Indian Buddhist Tradition 13. Shamatha and Vipashyana in the Dzogchen Tradition Epilogue: The Many Worlds of Buddhism and Science Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe suggestion brought to the fore by Flanagan and Wallace-that Buddhism may be a source of insight in these areas-is a welcome and tantalizing one. -- Daniel Stoljar Nature This book is a stirring attack on the hubris and blind spots of the scientific establishment, combined with an engaging presentation of Buddhist wisdom as the antidote. -- Joseph S. O'Leary Japan TimesTable of ContentsPrologue: Skepticism in Buddhism and Science Part I: Restoring Our Human Nature 1. Toward a Revolution in the Mind Sciences 2. Buddhism and Science: Confrontation and Collaboration 3. Buddhism and the Mind Sciences 4. A Three-Dimensional Science of Mind 5. Restoring Meaning to the Universe 6. What Makes Us Human? Scientific and Buddhist Views 7. Achieving Free Will Part II: Transcending Our Human Nature 8. Buddhist Radical Empiricism 9. From Agnosticism to Gnosticism 10. A Buddhist Model of Optimal Mental Health 11. Mindfulness in the Mind Sciences and in Buddhism 12. Shamatha and Vipashyana in the Indian Buddhist Tradition 13. Shamatha and Vipashyana in the Dzogchen Tradition Epilogue: The Many Worlds of Buddhism and Science Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Neither Ghost nor Machine
Book SynopsisJeremy Sherman distills Terrence Deacon’s breakthrough natural science hypothesis for the emergence of agents and agency, selves and aims in an otherwise aimless universe. The theory cuts a new path through the dualistic spirit vs. mechanism debate, unifying the hard and soft sciences and suggesting new solutions to philosophical mysteries.Trade ReviewIn Neither Ghost nor Machine, Jeremy Sherman takes on a central mystery: How did the universe get from matter to mattering? Whence purpose? Whence selves? These are topics too easily ignored in our rush to find the molecular stuff of life and not the organizational "what is” of life. With this fine book, and that of Deacon, we are well launched. -- Stuart Kauffman, MacArthur Fellow, author of At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and ComplexityNeither Ghost nor Machine reckons with the most profound questions one can ask about the nature of the self and of life on earth. It is the work of a fiercely inquisitive and original mind. -- Kaja Perina, editor in chief, Psychology TodayWhen the Big Bang banged all there was was just the stuff of basic physics, fermions, bosons, and such. There was neither life nor mind. Now there is life all over the place and some of it is conscious. How is that possible? How could such things as life and mind emerge? Jeremy Sherman has written a clear, clever, witty guide to the new science of emergence championed by Terrence Deacon. This is a philosophical treasure trove that explains how novelty emerges without explanatory gaps and violations of the laws of nature. -- Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, author of Consciousness ReconsideredFinally! A breakthrough approach to fundamental questions that have gone unanswered for so long that many forget to ask them. Fascinating, profound! -- Daniel Ellsberg, behavioral economist, Right Livelihood Award recipientFor those of us who call ourselves religious/spiritual naturalists, this book is sure to become an instant classic. Its narrative of how living beings are and came to be is rigorous, accessible, and lyrical, and will greatly deepen our affinity with the natural world and with one another. -- Ursula Goodenough, Washington University in St. Louis, author of The Sacred Depths of NatureNeither Ghost nor Machine is an eloquent manifesto in the movement to reclaim questions of purpose and agency for science. Presenting Terrence Deacon’s account of the natural emergence of living agents, Jeremy Sherman casts aside the stale, old dichotomies to show us a new way of thinking scientifically about life. -- Jessica Riskin, author of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things TickJeremy Sherman lucidly explicates the paradigm-changing vision of Terrence Deacon, which addresses the mysteries of the origin of living systems from the nonliving and the emergence of mind and purpose in a nature that is still the the process of evolving. -- Bruce H. Weber, coauthor of Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural SelectionThe persistent Western dualism of mind and matter is finally done for, and the burden of proof has shifted. Thanks to books like Neither Ghost Nor Machine, inspired by the work of Terrence Deacon, we are now crossing the threshold to a brave new self-understanding -- Loyal D. Rue, Luther CollegeClearly written and accessible to any reader with an interest in the Big Questions of Life and Mindedness. * Biosemiotics *Table of ContentsForeword, by Terrence DeaconI. Overview1. The Mystery of Purpose2. The Biggest Mystery We Ever Ignore3. Deacon’s Solution in BriefII. Framing the Mystery4. Two Sources of Change5. Selves6. Two Ghosts, Two Machines7. Interpretation8. Aims9. Evolution’s Limited Limiting RoleIII. Dead Ends, Live Clues10. The History11. Evolutionary Theory’s Elusive Self12. Information About Nothing for Anyone13. The Engineered Ghosts in Our Machines14. Small Is DubiousIV. Grounding a Solution15. Processes of Emergent Elimination16. Second Law Irregularity17. Emergent Regularization18. Emergent Regularization vs. Emergent Self-Regeneration19. Other Emergent Regularization Dynamics20. Coupled Regularization ProcessesV. Deacon’s Solution21. Autogens: Self-Generators22. Evolved Autogens23. Where Is the Self?24. The Consequences of Self-RegenerationVI. The Interpreting Self25. Codes, Signs, Interpreters26. Kinds of SignsVII. Implications27. A Constraint-Based Approach to Evolutionary Theory28. Implications for the Free Will Debate?29. Making Science Safe for ValueAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Genes Brains and Human Potential The Science and
Book SynopsisA rigorous critique of how science has promoted an ideology of limited intelligence and social inequalityand how to overcome it.Trade ReviewIn his latest book, Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Richardson has again creatively illuminated the bases and limitations of genetic reductionist accounts of human intelligence, showing how cutting-edge research provides a valid alternative to such counterfactual and egregiously flawed models. Informative and inspiring, he convincingly counters these failed accounts of intelligence, forwarding a new relational theory of human development. -- Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development Tufts University Ken Richardson's previous books played a key role in countering genetic determinist theories of human intelligence. In this important new book, Richardson shows that genetic theories of intelligence are based on "bad science," and puts forward a dynamic model of human potential. In the process, he highlights recent discoveries about the nature of the gene and biological systems that support a new model of intelligence. His work has important implications for education, and for understanding human intelligence. -- Jay Joseph, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of The Trouble with Twin Studies. Genes, Brains, and Human Potential presents the synthesis of an extended biological systems view of intelligence that Ken Richardson has developed over decades. This bold book is a must-read for those interested in the science of intelligence and human potential. It provides a skillful and scholarly critique of traditional views of intelligence that continue to rely on outdated genetic or brain reductionism. In its place Richardson presents a comprehensive and rich analysis of how intelligent systems develop through dynamical processes occurring across multiple biological and psychological levels, from cells to societies. This book represents a significant advance in our understanding of human development and potential, a clear and comprehensive road map for anyone interested in making sense of the complexities of intelligence and its development across the life span. -- Robert Lickliter, Florida International UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Pinning Down Potential 2. Pretend Genes 3. Pretend Intelligence 4. Real Genes, Real Intelligence 5. Intelligent Development 6. How the Brain Makes Potential 7. A Creative Cognition 8. Potential Between Brains: Social Intelligence 9. Human Intelligence 10. Promoting Potential 11. The Problems of Education Are Not Genetic 12. Summary and Conclusions Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Mind Ecologies
Book SynopsisMatthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind.Trade ReviewMind Ecologies is a valuable and comprehensive contribution that certainly strengthens and amplifies recent efforts to show that pragmatism is an extremely useful asset that can bring different perspectives to contemporary debates on affectivity, embodiment, and the ecological relation between agents and the environment. -- Carlos Vara Sanchez * European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *Mind Ecologies offers a lively and informative history of Pragmatist thought, revealing how it both anticipated current work in philosophy and the sciences of the mind, and how it can be applied to great effect. Crippen and Schulkin make a convincing case that we are 'living ecologies'—integrated, interdependent systems—not detached, isolated intellects. -- Louise Barrett, author of Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human MindsMind Ecologies is wide-ranging and timely both as a contribution to today's philosophy of cognitive science and as a reminder of historical antecedents. This work will amplify and improve upon recent attempts to show that pragmatism and phenomenological philosophy are relevant to today’s sciences of the mind. -- Anthony Chemero, author of Radical Embodied Cognitive ScienceThis accessibly written book was long due. We finally have a clear and detailed overview of how pragmatism anticipated many key ideas of the field of 4E cognition. One theme that stands out as particularly interesting and refreshing is the pragmatists' emphasis on the affective-evaluative and aesthetic dimension of perception and cognition. -- Giovanna Colombetti, author of The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive MindAccessible for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students...Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Life, Experimentalism, and Valuation2. Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science3. Social Cohesion, Experience, and Aesthetics4. Pragmatism and Affective Cognition5. Perception, Affect, World6. Broadening EcologiesAppendix 1: Subcortical Structures of the BrainAppendix 2: Cortical Structures of the BrainNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Mind Ecologies Body Brain and World
Book SynopsisMatthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind.Trade ReviewMind Ecologies is a valuable and comprehensive contribution that certainly strengthens and amplifies recent efforts to show that pragmatism is an extremely useful asset that can bring different perspectives to contemporary debates on affectivity, embodiment, and the ecological relation between agents and the environment. -- Carlos Vara Sanchez * European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *Mind Ecologies offers a lively and informative history of Pragmatist thought, revealing how it both anticipated current work in philosophy and the sciences of the mind, and how it can be applied to great effect. Crippen and Schulkin make a convincing case that we are 'living ecologies'—integrated, interdependent systems—not detached, isolated intellects. -- Louise Barrett, author of Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human MindsMind Ecologies is wide-ranging and timely both as a contribution to today's philosophy of cognitive science and as a reminder of historical antecedents. This work will amplify and improve upon recent attempts to show that pragmatism and phenomenological philosophy are relevant to today’s sciences of the mind. -- Anthony Chemero, author of Radical Embodied Cognitive ScienceThis accessibly written book was long due. We finally have a clear and detailed overview of how pragmatism anticipated many key ideas of the field of 4E cognition. One theme that stands out as particularly interesting and refreshing is the pragmatists' emphasis on the affective-evaluative and aesthetic dimension of perception and cognition. -- Giovanna Colombetti, author of The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive MindAccessible for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students...Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Life, Experimentalism, and Valuation2. Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science3. Social Cohesion, Experience, and Aesthetics4. Pragmatism and Affective Cognition5. Perception, Affect, World6. Broadening EcologiesAppendix 1: Subcortical Structures of the BrainAppendix 2: Cortical Structures of the BrainNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Woman Who Couldnt Wake Up
Book SynopsisDespite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, an Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fifty hours at a stretch. Quinn Eastman tells her story—and the broader story of her diagnosis, idiopathic hypersomnia.Trade ReviewThis book is a fascinating and important tour-de-force taking us deep into the world of sleepiness like never before. Quinn Eastman weaves together powerful storytelling and cutting-edge science into an engaging and enlightening read that gives voice to many people's often invisible and overlooked struggles against a mysterious undertow of sleep. -- Julie Flygare, chief executive officer, Project Sleep, and author of Wide Awake and DreamingEastman takes us on a fascinating journey through the hinterland of sleep and its disorders. A gripping exploration of the confusing and sometimes controversial world of the sleeping brain. -- Guy Leschziner, author of The Man Who Tasted Words and The Nocturnal BrainWhen it comes to sleep in our culture, we focus almost entirely on individuals who 'can't sleep'... a malady that by most accounts borders on the scientifically impossible. We share endless tips and tricks for falling asleep fast, staying asleep, and pray that one will work its magic and allow us to fall asleep quickly and stay asleep like those that we look upon as "good sleepers." But is our view of what constitutes a great sleeper and a troubled sleeper skewed? Is this the wish we want the genie to grant? In The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up, readers get a profile of the other side of sleep medicine that is seldom discussed—excessive sleepiness, and how it is the truly sinister force when it comes to sleep medicine. Quinn Eastman takes you inside this murky world of misdiagnoses, misperceptions, and potentially life-changing experimental therapies. -- W. Chris Winter, author of The Rested Child and The Sleep SolutionEveryone tells us how important sleep is to health. But what happens when no amount of sleep is enough? Quinn Eastman offers a captivating exploration of idiopathic hypersomnia, a poorly understood, but all-too-devastating, disease. With the flair of a detective novel, each page unravels the tireless efforts to develop a treatment for those who can’t wake up. -- Joanna Kempner, Rutgers University, author of Not TonightIn this book Eastman (a technical editor at Emory Univ. School of Medicine) has succeeded in writing a solid history of an ambiguous topic. This is a surprisingly easy read given the sheer amount of detailed information packed into 250 pages of text. * Choice Reviews, American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Anna Sleeps a Lot, and We Don’t Know Why2. The Doctors and GABA3. The Antidote4. Rye Versus MSLT5. Behind the Curtain6. The Essence of Sleepiness7. My Favorite Mistake8. The Atlanta Sleepers Club9. The Story of Flumazenil10. Weird Drugs11. The Heart of the Brain12. Immobilized by Happiness13. Frustrating and Mostly Fruitless14. Everything Off Label15. Knock Yourself Out16. Biomarkers of Sleepiness—and IH17. The FDA Opens a DoorAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Vulnerable Minds The Neuropolitics of Divided
Book SynopsisLiya Yu develops a novel political framework that builds on neuroscientific discoveries to rethink the social contract. She advances a new neuropolitical language of persuasion that refrains from moralizing or shaming and instead appeals to shared neurobiological vulnerabilities.Trade ReviewEstablished systems are rarely challenged by big ideas in the way Yu does in this book. She takes on central concepts that ground our legal and political systems, holds them up to the light of neuroscience and psychology data, and discusses the implications for moving society forward. It is a wonderful example of interdisciplinary scholarship on the brain and society, and prudent reading given humanity’s current crises. -- Lasana Harris, University College LondonThis brilliant book will transform the way we think about identity, "race," and the innumerable and persistent conflicts that have been fed by false perceptions of difference between human beings. It is essential reading for everyone interested in resolving one of the central issues of our time. -- David C. Johnston, Columbia UniversityLiya Yu’s important book comes at a critical time when our increasingly divided world needs to better understand what brain and behavioral science powerfully tells us about being human. By revealing how our brains navigate our social world and process the experiences of fear, exclusion, and dehumanization, Liya offers us a path informed by science and evidence to create a better world where empathy, understanding, and belonging can be manifested and made real. -- Tim Phillips, founder and CEO of Beyond ConflictLiya Yu shows how neuroscience can provide a lingua franca to bridge the mental gap dividing racial, partisan, and ideological groups that are primed to dehumanize the other. Where banalities about tolerance no longer ring true, our 'disillusioned curiosity' can still lead us to understand the workings of our 'exclusionary brains.' -- Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Vulnerable Minds in Charlottesville1. A Battle Over Reality: Pitching the Social Contract Anew2. Unlocking the Black Box: Social Neuroscience’s Political Power3. Shared Vulnerabilities: We All Have Dehumanizing Brains4. Humanization Duties at Home: Neuropolitical Strategies for Liberal Democracies5. Humanization Duties Abroad: The Other in a Postcolonial WorldConclusion: Toward a Neuromaterialist Idea of Our Political SelvesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Altruistic Urge
Book SynopsisStephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychological mechanisms that evolved to safeguard offspring also motivate people to save strangers in need of immediate aid.Trade ReviewStephanie Preston knows human and animal empathy as no other. By demonstrating that helping behavior is baked into the mammalian brain, her eye-opening and well-written book takes the puzzle out of the 'puzzle of altruism.' -- Frans de Waal, author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a PrimatologistAn innovative, breakthrough body of work. Preston provides compelling evidence that our concern for others is biologically rooted in caregiving processes present throughout the animal kingdom. Insightful parallels drawn between human heroism and rodent caregiving speak to common underlying mechanisms. Written in an engaging style, the work is marked both by scientific rigor and creativity. Preston’s compassion for all beings shines through. -- Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Honorary Fellow in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Healthy Minds, University of WisconsinThe Altruistic Urge is a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of human behavior. Those who have a pessimistic view of human nature will be surprised to learn that people often go out of their way to rescue their fellow human beings from dangerous situations at great risk to themselves. Stephanie Preston explains the science behind this extreme ‘altruistic response’ with new ideas, compelling facts, and an engaging writing style. -- Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago and author of Macachiavellian Intelligence and Games Primates PlayThis book does a terrific job of further dispelling the myth that human empathic experience and altruistic behavior, and their neurological substrates, are distinct from those of other animals. It also aptly weaves together neuroanatomy, psychology, and evolutionary theory, a necessary context that’s difficult for many in the scientific and lay communities to understand. -- Garet Lahvis, neuroscientist and authorWe are a complex species…sometimes painfully selfish but also laudably giving. Ms. Preston’s book develops a plausible hypothesis to explain the extraordinary, heart-warming side of our dual personality. ‘The Altruistic Urge’ should be taken seriously. * The Wall Street Journal *Preston has produced an interesting and well-documented theory of human altruistic behavior. * American Scientist *One of 'five of the week’s best science picks.' * Nature *A 'Favorite Book of 2022' selection. One of 'the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.' * Greater Good Magazine and Science Center *Makes a strong and scientifically well-supported case. * Inside Story *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Abbreviations for Neuroanatomic Regions, Neuropeptides, and NeurotransmittersIntroduction: The Curious Case of the Assiduous Dams1. The Altruistic Response Model2. Similarities Between Offspring Care and Altruism Across Species3. Different Kinds of Altruism4. What Is an Instinct?5. The Neural Bases of Altruism6. Characteristics of the Victim That Facilitate a Response7. Characteristics of the Observer That Facilitate a Response8. Comparing the Altruistic Response Model to Other TheoriesConclusion: Why Consider Altruistic Responding Now?NotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Attraction Love Sex
Book SynopsisSimon LeVay introduces readers to a memorable cast of researchers trying to unravel the many mysteries that surround sex and sexuality. He distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey with scientific acumen, a critical eye, and a sense of humor.Trade ReviewSex: who doesn’t want to know more about this primordial human drive? Simon LeVay tells all—its biology and the real science behind fantasies, porn, rape, and much more. It’s a fascinating read. -- Helen Fisher, senior research fellow, the Kinsey Institute, author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We StraySimon LeVay highlights how science can help us understand our sexual psychology, from attraction and love to the darker sides of sexual behavior. -- Catherine A. Salmon, Redlands University, coauthor of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female SexualityAttraction, Love, Sex takes readers on an entertaining journey through the world of sex research. LeVay is a very open intellect, keen to introduce people to these top-notch investigations. -- Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolution, University of New South Wales, author of Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers[A] stimulating survey of the science of sexual desire… sheds light on a fundamental part of human life. * Publishers Weekly *An up-to-date, scientifically informed, original, and witty review of (almost) everything you always wanted to know about sex but might have been afraid to ask. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface1. Why Have Sex?2. Attraction3. Arousal4. Orientation5. Having Sex6. Relationships7. Paraphilias8. Pedophilia9. Porn10. Rape11. LoveNotesGlossaryIndex
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University of Texas Press The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive account of olfactory communication and territorial behavior in the Mongolian gerbil, Del Thiessen and PaulineYahr provide the first detailed study of the neurological and physiological mechanisms that control these basic functions.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Scent Marking, Chemocommunication, and Gland Characteristics 2. General Characteristics of the Mongolian Gerbil 3. Social Behavior and Evolution of the Gerbil 4. Hormone Regulation of Territoriality in the Gerbil s. Neurohormone Regulation of Territoriality in the Gerbil 6. The Harderian Gland: A New Pheromonal System 7. Models for Territoriality Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku
Book SynopsisFun, informative poetry about the brain.Trade Review"This book takes an unconventional and playful approach to a subject that is usually deemed to be difficult and complex . . . . It can be enjoyed by professionals in the field and anyone else interested in learning some of the basics in neuroscience. . . . [A] pleasure to read." -- International Journal of Psychotherapy"This small book carries a lot of punch." -- The Person-Centered Journal"[A] quick, entertaining, and simple way to learn about the brain. . . . It is also a suitable format for quick flips while waiting at the doctor’s office, waiting for a train, waiting in line, etc. If you are suffering from information overload, this book is a nice change of pace for learning about the nervous system in short bursts of reading." -- Whose Brain Is It"This book combines my love of the brain and love of words and poetry in such an enjoyable and informational manner. You can use these Haiku as topic or class starters, as clarification, or as a lesson in itself about a term. . . . Do get this book – it’s a great addition to your arsenal of classroom teaching tools." -- Teaching High School Psychology"[A]n innovative way to learn some facts about neuroscience . . ." -- The Lancet Neurology"This is an unusual presentation which quietly marries Japanese verse with simple neuroscientific topics. . . . I found it a worthwhile addition to my library." -- Treasure Time: Reviews of Psychological Novels"[C]ould potentially be a powerful impetus for undergraduate, graduate, medical, and younger learners of neurobiology." -- Frontiers in Neurology"Short little poems Neuroscience ideas Tied together here." -- Janet M. Dubinsky, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota"The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku is yet another medium that Eric Chudler has successfully employed to bring basic concepts of neuroscience to a broad public audience. This book will be an invaluable resource to neuroscientists to describe the mysteries of the brain to people outside—and within—the field." -- William Cameron, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd From DNA to Social Cognition
Book SynopsisDecision-making is an integral part of our daily lives. Researchers seek a complete understanding of the decision-making process, including the biological and social basis and the impact of our decisions.Trade Review“But, on the whole, readers will come away with an appreciation for the complexities and potential rewards inherent in this still-growing field.” (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 December 2012) Table of ContentsContributors vii Introduction 1 Richard P. Ebstein, Mikhail Monakhov, Poh San Lai, and Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory PART 1 EMPATHY: NEURAL BASES AND GENETIC CORRELATES 19 1.1 Genes Related to Autistic Traits and Empathy 21 Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Simon Baron-Cohen 1.2 The Behavioral Genetics of Human Pair Bonding 37 Hasse Walum and Lars Westberg 1.3 Brain Networks Supporting Empathy 47 Martin Schulte-Rüther and Ellen Greimel 1.4 The Human Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition 63 Sook-Lei Liew and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh 1.5 Motivational Aspects of Future Thinking in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex 81 Arnaud D'Argembeau PART 2 MORAL NEUROSCIENCE AND EMOTION 91 2.1 Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex to Social Cognition and Moral Judgment Processes 93 Chad E. Forbes, Joshua C. Poore, and Jordan Grafman 2.2 Emotion and Moral Cognition 111 Michael Koenigs 2.3 The Neuroanatomical Basis of Moral Cognition and Emotion 123 Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, and Jorge Moll 2.4 Envy and Schadenfreude: The Neural Correlates of Competitive Emotions 139 Jonathan Dvash and Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory PART 3 Genes and Decision Making 157 3.1 The Somatic Marker Framework and the Neurological Basis of Decision Making 159 Antoine Bechara 3.2 A Model of the Initial Stages of Drug Abuse: From Reinforcement Learning to Social Contagion 185 Gilly Koritzky, Adi Luria, and Eldad Yechiam 3.3 Extrinsic Effects and Models of Dominance Hierarchy Formation 203 Matthew Druen and Lee Alan Dugatkin 3.4 Complex Social Cognition and the Appreciation of Social Norms in Psychiatric Disorders: Insights from Evolutionary Game Theory 215 Martin Brüne and Julia Wischniewski 3.5 From Neuroeconomics to Genetics: The Intertemporal Choices Case as an Example 233 Itzhak Aharon and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde Index 245
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Protein Chaperones and Protection from
Book Synopsis* Examines the variety of roles that chaperones play in neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington s disease and Parkinson s disease. * Caters to the ever-growing, global aging population.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Contributors. 1 Intrinsically Disordered Chaperones and Neurodegeneration (Vladimir N. Uversky). 2 Redox Regulation of Protein Misfolding, Synaptic Damage, and Neuronal Loss in Neurodegenerative Diseases (Tomohiro Nakamura and Stuart A. Lipton). 3 Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy and Parkinson’s Disease (Marta Martinez-Vicente and Ester Wong). 4 Chaperone and Anti-Chaperone Properties of Synuclein: Implications for Development, Aging, and Neurodegenerative Disease (Makoto Hashimoto, Kazuanri Sekiyama, Akio Sekigawa, and Masayo Fujita). 5 The Ubiquitin–Proteasome System in Neurodegenerative Diseases: More than the Usual Suspects (Anne Bertolotti). 6 Regulation of the Polyglutamine Androgen Receptor by the Hsp90/Hsp70-Based Chaperone Machinery (Andrew P. Lieberman and William B. Pratt). 7 Amyloid Remodeling by Hsp104 (James Shorter). 8 Chaperone-Dependent Amyloid Assembly and Prion Toxicity (Daniel W. Summers, Katie J. Wolfe, and Douglas M. Cyr). 9 Modulation of Amyloid Propagation in Yeast by Hsp70 and its Regulators and Chaperone Partners (Daniel C. Masison). 10 ALS and the Copper Chaperone CCS (Marjatta Son and Jeffrey L. Elliott). 11 Emerging Area: TorsinA, a Novel ATP-Dependent Factor Linked to Dystonia (Michal Zolkiewski and Hui-Chuan Wu). 12 Therapeutics: Harnessing the Power of Molecular and Pharmacological Chaperones (David S. Gross, Ronald L. Klein and Stephan N. Witt). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Architects Brain
Book SynopsisThis richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various moments of architectural thought as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory. He later repositions this question from the perspective of contemporary neuroscience.Trade Review"Hence these two books from the same publisher and by the same author, Harry Francis Mallgrave, sole writer of the former and co-author with David Goodman of the second book, make a valuable contribution to this growing field of knowledge." (Architectural Review, 1 July 2011)Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Historical Essays 1. The Humanist Brain (Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo). 2. The Enlightened Brain (Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy). 3. The Sensational Brain (Burke, Price, and Knight). 4. The Transcendental Brain (Kant and Schopenhauer). 5. The Animate Brain (Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper). 6. The Empathetic Brain (Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller). 7. The Gestalt Brain (The Dynamics of the Sensory Field). 8. The Neurological Brain (Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra). 9. The Phenomenal Brain (Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa). Part Two: Neuroscience and Architecture. 10. Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain. 11. Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision. 12. Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment. 13. Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses. 14. Epilogue: The Architect's Brain. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Glial Physiology and Pathophysiology
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive advanced text on the biology and pathology of glial cells--the most numerous cells in the brain and an emerging field in neuroscience--offers detailed coverage of the morphology and interrelationships between glial cells and neurones in different parts of the nervous system.Table of ContentsPreface xvii About the Authors xxi Abbreviations xxv About the Companion Website xxxii 1 History of Neuroscience and the Dawn of Research in Neuroglia 1 1.1 The miraculous human brain: localising the brain functions 1 1.2 Cellular organisation of the brain 10 1.3 Mechanisms of communications in neural networks 14 1.4 The concept of neuroglia 27 1.5 Beginning of the modern era 47 1.6 Concluding remarks 49 References 49 2 General Overview of Signalling in the Nervous System 59 2.1 Intercellular signalling: wiring and volume modes of transmission 59 2.2 Cellular signalling: receptors 62 2.3 Intracellular signalling: second messengers 67 2.4 Calcium signalling 67 2.5 Concluding remarks 72 3 Neuroglia: Definition, Classification, Evolution, Numbers, Development 73 3.1 Definition of neuroglia as homeostatic cells of the nervous system 74 3.2 Classification 75 3.3 Evolution of neuroglia 76 3.4 Numbers: how many glial cells are in the brain? 93 3.5 Embryogenesis and development of neuroglia in mammals 96 3.6 Concluding remarks 99 References 100 4 Astroglia 105 4.1 Definition and heterogeneity 107 4.2 Morphology of the main types of astroglia 113 4.3 How to identify astrocytes in the nervous tissue 119 4.4 Astroglial syncytial networks 120 4.5 Physiology of astroglia 125 4.6 Functions of astroglia 175 4.7 Concluding remarks 231 References 231 5 Oligodendrocytes 245 5.1 Oligodendrocyte anatomy 247 5.2 Myelin structure and function 252 5.3 Physiology of oligodendrocytes 266 5.4 Oligodendrocyte development 283 5.5 Concluding remarks 299 References 299 6 NG2-glial Cells 321 6.1 Definition of NG2-glia 321 6.2 Structure of NG2-glia 324 6.3 Physiology of NG2-glia 327 6.4 Proliferation of NG2-glia and generation of oligodendrocytes 332 6.5 Relationship between NG2-glia and CNS pericytes 333 6.6 Evolution of NG2-glia 336 6.7 Concluding remarks 337 References 337 7 Microglia 343 7.1 Definition of microglia 344 7.2 Microglial origin and development 345 7.3 Morphology of microglia 345 7.4 General physiology of microglia 351 7.5 Microglial migration and motility 372 7.6 Physiological functions of microglia: role in synaptic transmission and plasticity 373 7.7 Microglia in ageing 375 7.8 Concluding remarks 375 References 376 8 Peripheral Glial Cells 381 8.1 Peripheral nervous system 382 8.2 Schwann cells 390 8.3 Satellite glial cells 407 8.4 Enteric glia 412 8.5 Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) 418 8.6 Concluding remarks 422 References 423 9 General Pathophysiology of Neuroglia 431 9.1 Neurological disorders as gliopathologies 431 9.2 Reactive astrogliosis 433 9.3 Wallerian degeneration 439 9.4 Excitotoxic vulnerability of oligodendrocytes: the death of white matter 442 9.5 Activation of microglia 444 9.6 Concluding remarks 449 References 450 10 Neuroglia in Neurological Diseases 453 10.1 Introduction 454 10.2 Genetic astrogliopathology: Alexander disease 456 10.3 Stroke and ischaemia 458 10.4 Migraine and spreading depression 467 10.5 CNS oedema 469 10.6 Metabolic disorders 471 10.7 Toxic encephalopathies 473 10.8 Neurodegenerative diseases 474 10.9 Leukodystrophies 487 10.10 Epilepsy 488 10.11 Psychiatric diseases 490 10.12 Autistic disorders 491 10.13 Neuropathic pain 492 10.14 Demyelinating diseases 494 10.15 Infectious diseases 496 10.16 Peripheral neuropathies 499 10.17 Gliomas 501 10.18 Concluding remarks 504 References 504 Author Index 513 Subject Index 517
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Tourettes Syndrome Tics Obsessions Compulsions
Book SynopsisA revised and concise guide to the latest thoughts and findings on Tourette''s Syndrome Edited by two of the leading international authorities on Tourette''s Syndrome and tic-related, obsessive-compulsive disorders, Tourette''s Syndrome is the most up-to-date edited reference covering this neuropsychiatric disorder and related disorders from a variety of perspectives. Featuring contributors from the world-renowned Yale Child Study Center, this volume introduces a groundbreaking developmental framework for understanding Tourette''s-defined by persistent motor and vocal tics and frequently associated with obsessions, compulsions, and attentional difficulties-and maps out the diagnosis, genetics, manifestations, and treatment. Reflecting more than 25 years of research, this comprehensive resource describes the major categories of disorders (TS, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities) as well as the strengthsTrade Review"...an excellent guide..." (Ageing & Society, Vol 20, 2000)Table of ContentsINDIVIDUALS, SYMPTOMS, AND DIAGNOSES. Tics and Tic Disorders (J. Leckman, et al.). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression (R. King, et al.). Phenomenology and Natural History of Tic-Related ADHD and Learning Disabilities (J. Walkup, et al.). Neuropsychological Findings (R. Schultz, et al.). Peer Acceptance and Adaptive Functioning (E. Dykens, et al.). Differential Diagnosis (K. Towbin, et al.). Beyond the Diagnosis-Darwinian Perspectives on Pathways to Successful Adaptation (J. Leckman & D. Cohen). CAUSES AND DETERMINANTS. Evolving Models of Pathogenesis (J. Leckman & D. Cohen). Epidemiological Studies (A. Zohar, et al.). Genetic Vulnerability (D. Pauls, et al.). Environmental Risk and Protective Factors (B. Peterson, et al.). Neuroanatomical Circuitry (B. Peterson, et al.). Neurochemical and Neuropeptide Systems (G. Anderson, et al.). PARTNERSHIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST OF TOURETTE'S. Yale Approach to Assessment and Treatment (J. Leckman, et al.). Selection and Use of Diagnostic and Clinical Rating Instruments (L. Scahill, et al.). Comprehensive Psychological and Educational Assessments (A. Carter, et al.). Psychosocial and Behavioral Treatments (R. King, et al.). Recommendations for Teachers (A. Carter, et al.). Pharmacological and Other Somatic Approaches to Treatment (L. Carpenter, et al.). Role of Voluntary Organizations in Clinical Care, Research, and Public Policy (K. Taubert). Appendices. References. Indexes.
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Wiley Mechanistic Relationships Between Development and Learning
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Wiley Synaesthesia
Book SynopsisSynaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another sensory modality. For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a colour. This volume brings together what is known about this fascinating neurological condition. The above questions, and new issues arising from the recent wave of cognitive neuroscientific research into synaesthesia, are debated in a series of chapters by leading authorities in the field.Table of ContentsPart I: Background:. 1. Synaesthesia: An Introduction: John E. Harrison and Simon Baron-Cohen (Cambridge University). 2. Synaesthesia: Richard Cytowic. Part II: Classic Papers:. 3. Extract on Synaesthesia from 'Inquiries into Human Faculty': Sir Francis Galton. 4. On Coloured-Hearing Synaesthesia: Cross-Modal Translations of Sensory Dimensions: Lawrence Marks. 5. 'Correspondences': Charles Baudelaire. 6. Extract from "The Mind of a Mnemonist": Alexander Luria. Part III: Neuroscientific Perspectives:. 7. Synaesthesia: A Review of Psychological Theories: John E. Harrison and Simon Baron-Cohen (Cambridge University). 8. The Physiological Basis of Synaesthesia: Christopher D. Frith and Eraldo Paulesu (Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology and Institute H. San Raffaele, Milan). 9. Perception and Sensory Information in Synaesthetic Experience: Petter G. Grossenbacher (National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda). 10. Possible Implications of Synaesthesia for the Hard Question of Consciousness: Jennifer Gray, Julia Nunn, Steve Williams and Simon Baron-Cohen (Institute of Psychiatry, City University, Institute of Psychiatry and Cambridge University). 11. Synaesthesia: Is a Genetic Analysis Feasible?: Mark E. S. Bailey and Keith Johnson (Both Glasgow University). Part IV: Developmental Perspectives:. 12. Synaesthesia: Implications for Modularity of Mind: Gabriel M. A. Segal (King's College, London). 13. Neonatal Synaesthesia: Implications for the Processing of Speech and Faces: Daphne Maurer. 14. Synaesthesia: Implications for Developmental Neurobiology: Henri Kennedy, Colette Dehay, Alexandre Batardiere and Pascal Barone (All INSERM, France). Part V: Clinical and Personal Perspectives:. 15. Synaesthesia: Possible Mechanisms: E. M. R. Critchley (Preston Royal Infirmary). 16. Two Synaesthetes Talking Color: Alison Motluk (New Scientist).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy and the Neurosciences
Book SynopsisBy introducing key themes in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and the basic concepts of neuroscience, this text provides philosophers with the necessary background to engage the neurosciences and offers neuroscientists an introduction to the relevant tools of philosophical analysis.Trade Review"William Bechtel and his colleagues have set about creating a genuine teaching aid." Journal of Consciousness Studies "The first of its kind, Philosophy and the Neurosciences is sure to find an eager audience in neuroscience and philosophy. Under the encyclopedic and judicious guidance of Bill Bechtel, the editors have assembled a genuinely useful collection, provided insightful introductions to each section, and included a sample of groundbreaking papers from the history of neuroscience." Patricia Smith Churchland, University of California, San Diego "The philosophy of neuroscience finally has a good teaching text. This nicely edited collection is a collage of classic and contemporary papers by neuroscientists and some solid, yet innovative philosophy." Peter Machamer, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Part I: Neurophilosophical Foundations. Introduction to Part I: Neurophilosophical Foundations (Pete Mandik). 1. Philosophy Meets the Neurosciences (William Bechtel, Pete Mandik, and Jennifer Mundale). 2. Brain Metaphor and Brain Theory (John G. Daugman). 3. Neuroanatomical Foundations for Cognition: The Neuron Doctrine and Brain Mapping (Jennifer Mundale). 4. Epistemic Issues in Procuring Evidence About the Brain: The Importance of Research Instruments and Techniques (William Bechtel and Robert S. Stufflebeam). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Neurophilosophical Foundations. Part II: Language. Introduction to Part II: Language (William Bechtel). 5. Remarks on the Seat of the Faculty of Articulate Language Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Paul Broca). 6. Recent Works on Aphasia (Carl Wernicke). 7. The Processing of Single Words Studied with Positron Emission Tomography (Steven E. Petersen and Julie A. Fiez). 8. Modularity, Domain Specificity and the Development of Language (Elizabeth Bates). 9. Linking Cognition and Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language (William Bechtel). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Language. Part III: Vision. Introduction to Part III: Vision (William Bechtel). 10. Brain Mechanisms of Vision (David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel). 11. Object Vision and Spatial Vision: Two Cortical Pathways (Mortimer Mishkin, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and Kathleen A. Macko). 12. Neural Mechanisms of Form and Motion Processing in the Primate Visual System (David C. van Essen and Jack L. Gallant). 13. Decomposing and Localizing Vision: An Exemplar for Cognitive Neuroscience (William Bechtel). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Vision. Part IV: Consciousness. Introduction to Part IV: Consciousness (Pete Mandik). 14. Consciousness and Neuroscience (Francis Crick and Christof Koch). 15. A Neurofunctional Theory of Visual Consciousness (Jesse Prinz). 16. The Nature of Pain ( Valerie G. Hardcastle. 17. The Neurobiology and Philosophy of Subjectivity (Pete Mandik). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Consciousness. Part V: Representation. Introduction to Part V: Representation (Pete Mandik). 18. Representations: From Neural Systems to Cognitive Systems (William Bechtel). 19. The Architecture of Representation (Rick Grush). 20. Of Sensory Systems and the 'Aboutness' of Mental States (Kathleen Akins). 21. Brain Matters: A Case Against Representations in the Brain (Rob Stufflebeam) Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Representation. Part VI: Reduction. Introduction to Part VI: Reduction (Jennifer Mundale). 22. Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist's Field Guide (Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland). 23. Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-Evolution of Theories of Science (Robert N. McCauley). 24. McCauley's Demand for a Co-Level Competitor (Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Reduction. Author Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy and the Neurosciences
Book SynopsisBy introducing key themes in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and the basic concepts of neuroscience, this text provides philosophers with the necessary background to engage the neurosciences and offers neuroscientists an introduction to the relevant tools of philosophical analysis.Trade Review"William Bechtel and his colleagues have set about creating a genuine teaching aid." Journal of Consciousness Studies "The first of its kind, Philosophy and the Neurosciences is sure to find an eager audience in neuroscience and philosophy. Under the encyclopedic and judicious guidance of Bill Bechtel, the editors have assembled a genuinely useful collection, provided insightful introductions to each section, and included a sample of groundbreaking papers from the history of neuroscience." Patricia Smith Churchland, University of California, San Diego "The philosophy of neuroscience finally has a good teaching text. This nicely edited collection is a collage of classic and contemporary papers by neuroscientists and some solid, yet innovative philosophy." Peter Machamer, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Part I: Neurophilosophical Foundations. Introduction to Part I: Neurophilosophical Foundations (Pete Mandik). 1. Philosophy Meets the Neurosciences (William Bechtel, Pete Mandik, and Jennifer Mundale). 2. Brain Metaphor and Brain Theory (John G. Daugman). 3. Neuroanatomical Foundations for Cognition: The Neuron Doctrine and Brain Mapping (Jennifer Mundale). 4. Epistemic Issues in Procuring Evidence About the Brain: The Importance of Research Instruments and Techniques (William Bechtel and Robert S. Stufflebeam). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Neurophilosophical Foundations. Part II: Language. Introduction to Part II: Language (William Bechtel). 5. Remarks on the Seat of the Faculty of Articulate Language Followed by an Observation of Aphemia (Paul Broca). 6. Recent Works on Aphasia (Carl Wernicke). 7. The Processing of Single Words Studied with Positron Emission Tomography (Steven E. Petersen and Julie A. Fiez). 8. Modularity, Domain Specificity and the Development of Language (Elizabeth Bates). 9. Linking Cognition and Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language (William Bechtel). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Language. Part III: Vision. Introduction to Part III: Vision (William Bechtel). 10. Brain Mechanisms of Vision (David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel). 11. Object Vision and Spatial Vision: Two Cortical Pathways (Mortimer Mishkin, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and Kathleen A. Macko). 12. Neural Mechanisms of Form and Motion Processing in the Primate Visual System (David C. van Essen and Jack L. Gallant). 13. Decomposing and Localizing Vision: An Exemplar for Cognitive Neuroscience (William Bechtel). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Vision. Part IV: Consciousness. Introduction to Part IV: Consciousness (Pete Mandik). 14. Consciousness and Neuroscience (Francis Crick and Christof Koch). 15. A Neurofunctional Theory of Visual Consciousness (Jesse Prinz). 16. The Nature of Pain ( Valerie G. Hardcastle. 17. The Neurobiology and Philosophy of Subjectivity (Pete Mandik). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Consciousness. Part V: Representation. Introduction to Part V: Representation (Pete Mandik). 18. Representations: From Neural Systems to Cognitive Systems (William Bechtel). 19. The Architecture of Representation (Rick Grush). 20. Of Sensory Systems and the 'Aboutness' of Mental States (Kathleen Akins). 21. Brain Matters: A Case Against Representations in the Brain (Rob Stufflebeam) Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Representation. Part VI: Reduction. Introduction to Part VI: Reduction (Jennifer Mundale). 22. Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist's Field Guide (Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland). 23. Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-Evolution of Theories of Science (Robert N. McCauley). 24. McCauley's Demand for a Co-Level Competitor (Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland). Questions for Further Study and Reflection Concerning Reduction. Author Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of vision. The book introduces the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.Trade Review"This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see," Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules "Farah’s book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers." Anne Treisman, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1. Early Vision. 2. From Local To Global Image Representation. 3. The Problem Of Visual Recognition. 4. Object Recognition. 5. Face Recognition. 6. Word Recognition. 7. Visual Attention. 8. Hemispatial Neglect. 9. Mental Imagery. 10. Visual Awareness.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 11th Hour
Book SynopsisThe 11th Hour Series of revision guides are designed for quick reference. The organization of these books actively involves students in the learning process and reinforces concepts. At the end of each chapter there is a test including multiple choice questions, true/false questions and short answer questions, and every answer involves an explanation. Each book contains icons in the text indicating additional support on a dedicated web page. Students having difficulties with their courses will find this an excellent way to raise their grades. Clinical correlations or everyday applications include examples from the real world to help students understand key concepts more readily. Dedicated web page, there 24 hours a day, will give extra help, tips, warnings of trouble spots, extra visuals and more. A quick check on what background students will need to apply helps equip them to conquer a topic. The most important informationTable of Contents1. The Organisation of the Nervous System. 2. Electrical Properties of Nerve Cells. 3. Sensory Systems. 4. Motor Control Systems. 5. Higher Neural Functions. 6. Molecular Neuroscience
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Harvard University Press The Brains Sense of Movement
Book SynopsisBerthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. In his view, the brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world.Trade ReviewThis book is fascinating if one reads no more than the table of contents! With a jacket photo of semiweightless astronauts and chapter sections titled ‘Am I in My Bed Hanging from the Ceiling?,’ ‘The Art of Breaking,’ ‘What If Newton Had Wanted to Catch the Apple?,’ and ‘“Go Where I’m Looking,” Not “Look Where I’m Going,”’ among others, how could one not investigate further? …Anyone who has ever wondered, ‘How did I catch that?,’ ‘How did I hit that?,’ or ‘How in the world did I get out of the way of that?!’ will find this a good read. -- L. A. Meserve * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Accidental Mind
Book SynopsisA guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific book that accomplishes its aim of presenting a biological view of how the brain works, and does so in a charming, fetching style. -- Joshua R. Sanes, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityThis is the first scientific book I've read with "attitude." David Linden is something of a Howard Stern shock jock and there's a lot of heavy breathing in this overview of brain function and the linkage between psychological and brain processes. Linden is clearly a thoughtful scientist and this comes through in his excellent choice of facts and theories to present. This is a very intelligent book. -- John Lisman, Professor of Biology, Brandeis University[A] lively mix of solid science and fascinating case histories... The book's greatest strength is Linden's knack for demystifying biology and neuroscience with vivid similes (he calls the brain, weighing two percent of total body weight and using 20 percent of its energy, the Hummer H2 of the body). Though packed with textbook-ready data, the book grips readers like a masterful teacher; those with little science experience may be surprised to find themselves interested in--and even chuckling over--the migration of neurons along radial glia, and anxious to find out what happens next. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *More than another salvo in the battle over whether biological structures are the products of supernatural design or biological evolution (though Linden has no doubt it's the latter), research on our brain's primitive foundation is cracking such puzzles as why we cannot tickle ourselves, why we are driven to spin narratives even in our dreams and why reptilian traits persist in our gray matter. -- Sharon Begley * Newsweek *Linden tells his story well, in an engaging style, with plenty of erudition and a refreshing honesty about how much remains unknown. The book should easily hold the attention of readers with little background in biology and no prior knowledge of brains. It would make an excellent present for curious non-scientists and a good book for undergraduates who are just entering into the brain's magic menagerie. Even readers trained in neuroscience are likely to enjoy the many tidbits of rarely taught information--on love, sex, gender, sleep and dreams--that spice up Linden's main argument. The Accidental Mind stands out for being highly readable and clearly educational. No doubt, the human brain evolved along a constrained path and is, in some respects, designed imperfectly. Linden will send that message home...We still know too little about the brain's inner workings to judge how well it does its job. What we do know, and what The Accidental Mind helps us to realize, is that the human brain is not designed as many have imagined. -- Georg Striedter * Nature *The majority of this book is an enjoyable neurosciences primer for the general reader. Evolutionary and psychological perspectives provide occasional insights about the mind, but mostly the subject here is the organ capable of conjuring it into existence. Linden makes clear that the physical substrate of our mental phenomena--the squidgy and haphazard mass of our brain--is a gloriously evolved muddle. -- Druin Burch * Times Literary Supplement *Many popular neuroscience books emphasize the brain's complexity using terms of purpose: this region is for emotion, that one for vision, and so forth, each interacting in a perfectly designed whole. This ambitious, engaging, and often irreverent book by Linden adopts a quite different perspective, instead emphasizing the evolutionary origins of the human brain...The book...end[s] with a well-argued discussion of the tension between neuroscience and intelligent design. The emphasis on evolution is laudable...making this book an important counterpoint to breathless paeans to brain design. -- S. A. Huettel * Choice *For anyone interested in a skillfully guided tour through the world of neural function, The Accidental Mind is a playful yet academically informed work that addresses issues as diverse as intelligent design, the fallibility of the senses, the human religious impulse, and the possible heritability of sexual orientation. Without overwhelming the reader with the biochemical underpinnings of neural function, Linden explores the role that neural design (structure and function) has in the explication of various human behaviors. -- Charles J. Alt * History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences *Linden provides an accessible and up to date guide through this maze [that is the brain]. -- Steven Rose * The Guardian *Table of ContentsPrologue: Brain Explained 1. The Inelegant Design of the Brain 2. Building a Brain with Yesterday's Parts 3. Some Assembly Required 4. Sensation and Emotion 5. Learning, Memory, and Human Individuality 6. Love and Sex 7. Sleeping and Dreaming 8. The Religious Impulse 9. The Unintelligent Design of the Brain Epilogue: That Middle Thing Further Reading and Resources Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Minding the Climate
Book SynopsisThe human brain evolved to prioritize short-term rewards over long-term goals. But while this adaptation served our ancestors well, it is maladaptive in the face of a slow-moving climate crisis. Luckily, brains can adjust. Ann-Christine Duhaime explores how we can reframe what we find rewarding to counteract climate change.Trade ReviewA fascinating book. Dr. Duhaime reveals that the vexed nature of the human brain complicates our response to our greatest crisis. By linking neuroscience and environmental studies, this book offers key insight into how we might leverage our brains to fight climate change. -- Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of NatureA unique look at how to meaningfully address catastrophic climate change…Duhaime’s original angle sets her work apart from the pack, and she easily translates complex neurology for nonspecialists. Climate-minded readers will find this full of insight. * Publishers Weekly *Duhaime covers many issues in a thoughtful way, including the gap between people’s stated intentions to perform pro-environmental behaviors and whether they actually do so; the limits of survey-based research about attitudes, beliefs, and behavior versus seldom-done field studies; and all the ways in which reward is pertinent for behavioral change. She succeeds in suggesting that neuroscience is indirectly relevant to understanding our current climate predicament. -- Adam R. Aron * Science *Surprising…Using insights provided by research at the intersection of neuroscience, environmental sciences and a number of other fields, Minding the Climate invites us to think about what a ‘sustainable brain’ might look like and how to achieve it. * New Books Network *Minding the Climate is a groundbreaking work on how we might leverage our brains to fight climate change. -- Sudhirendar Sharma * The Hindu *Original, thoughtful, and inspiring. Dr. Duhaime explains how our brains seek rewards, and if we take the time to understand how and why this affects our behavior, we will be able to live healthier lives—for ourselves and for our environment. -- Peter Sterling, author of What Is Health?Minding the Climate provides key insights on how the physiology of the human brain shapes our capacity to address the existential threat of climate change. This work is essential if we are to have any hope of surviving as a species and preserving a habitable planet for future generations. -- Brad Campbell, President, Conservation Law FoundationFor decades climate science has been ignored, undermined, and denounced. Dr. Duhaime takes us deep into the brain to understand why we fail to do what is in our and the planet’s best interest. This is an important book. -- Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts UniversityWhile our brains are motivated by short-term incentives and immediate satisfaction loops, we can change the ways we think about the threat of global warming and, consequently, spark our collective sense of urgency and action. Minding the Climate presents a groundbreaking look at how to do that. -- John Judge, President and CEO, Trustees of Reservations, and author of The Outdoor CitizenA beautifully written look into why changing behavior in response to the climate crisis is so challenging. Like the great neurosurgeon she is, Dr. Duhaime methodically and carefully unpacks the fascinating evolutionary roots of human decision-making, why that decision-making so often falters in the face of modern threats, and how to use that understanding to guide future action. Highly recommended! -- Howard Frumkin, Senior Vice President, Trust for Public Land
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Harvard University Press Memory Distortion
Book SynopsisHypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repressionthese and other topics are explored in this collection of essays by eminent scholars in cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.Trade ReviewThis is a particularly timely book that compiles the presentations from a 1994 conference sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior. The uniqueness of this volume comes from the diversity of its contributors. It brings together neurobiological, cognitive, psychiatric, neuropsychological, and sociocultural perspectives on the issue of memory distortion. The fundamental theme running through this book is that remembering is a process of reconstruction...The volume competently demonstrates that mind-brain sciences have progressed to a level where scientists of differing ilk may each proffer a different level of analysis...and yet have a meaningful dialogue. -- Shitij Kapur, M.D. * American Journal of Psychiatry *We owe much to Daniel Schacter for tackling head-on the question of the fallibility of memories. Schacter and colleagues have chosen a challenging interdisciplinary format to present essays on the increasingly controversial topic of memory distortion. This collection of essays emerged from a conference and subsequent discussion groups described as an 'interface between disciplines'. This description embodies the tone of Memory Distortion, which takes on the format of a congenial but lively debate among colleagues. -- Mark W. Jacobson and Dean C. Delis * Contemporary Psychology *Human memory [is not] like a photograph album, a collection of cassettes, compact discs or videos or any other accumulative archive of the past. Rather, memories are fragmentary, condensed, often distorted and inaccurate representations of past experience. This point is made in impressive detail by all the contributors to this excellent collection of essays on memory distortion...Memory Distortion provides an outstanding multidisciplinary perspective on memory accuracy, ranging from cognitive psychology through psychiatry, neuropsychology and neurobiology, to sociocultural analyses. -- Martin A. Conway * Nature *This is a superb collection of chapters, which covers an impressive and wide range of topics related to memory distortion...[E]xploring this phenomenon at many levels is absolutely crucial...[and] I recommend the book to everyone with an interest in normal and pathological distortion. -- Lars Nyberg * European Journal of Cognitive Psychology *Table of ContentsPreface Gerald D. Fischbach and Joseph T. Coyle Memory Distortion: History and Current Status Daniel L. Schacter Part I: Cognitive Perspectives The Reality of Illusory Memories Elizabeth F. Loftus, Julie Feldman, and Richard Dashiell Constructive Memory and Memory Distortions: A Parallel-Distributed Processing Approach James L. McClelland False Beliefs: Some Developmental and Clinical Considerations Stephen J. Ceci Part II: Psychiatric and Psychopathological Perspectives Hypnosis and Suggestion David Spiegel Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychobiological Mechanisms of Traumatic Remembrance John H. Krystal, Stephen M. Southwick, and Dennis S. Charney Mood-congruent Memory Biases in Anxiety and Depression Susan Mineka and Kathleen Nugent Part III: Neuropsychological Perspectives Biological Foundations of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory Larry R. Squire Confabulation Morris Moscovitch Part IV: Neurobiological Perspectives Emotional Activation, Neuromodulatory Systems, and Memory James L. McGaugh Speculations on the Fidelity of Memories Stored in Synaptic Connections Rodney A. Swain, Kim E. Armstrong, Thomas A. Comery, Aaron G. Humphreys, Theresa A. Jones, Jeff A. Kleim, and William T. Greenough Steps Toward a Molecular Definition of Memory Consolidation Ted Abel, Cristina Alberini, Mirella Ghirardi, Yan-You Huang, Peter Nguyen, and Eric R. Kandel Part V: Sociocultural Perspectives Some Patterns and Meanings of Memory Distortion in American History Michael Kammen Dynamics of Distortion in Collective Memory Michael Schudson Ancient Egyptian Antijudaism: A Case of Distorted Memory Jan Assmann Part VI: Concluding Reflections Notes on the Cerebral Topography of Memory and Memory Distortion: A Neurologist's Perspective Marek-Marsel Mesulam Memory Distortion and Anamnesis: A View from the Human Sciences Lawrence E. Sullivan Contributors Index
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Harvard University Press Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons
Book SynopsisGordon Fain’s Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons: Second Edition is intended for anyone who seeks to understand nerve cell function: undergraduate and graduate students in neuroscience, students of bioengineering and cognitive science, and practicing neuroscientists who want to deepen their knowledge of recent discoveries.Trade ReviewI have used Fain’s book for over a decade at Harvard University for my cellular neuroscience class. It offers the perfect mix of rigorous exposition and distilled insights on what makes neurons tick. With clear illustrations (often adapted from original figures from seminal papers in the field), a fluid narrative and careful choice of topics, the book is exceptionally well-suited for a serious introduction to the physiology of neurons. The new edition is a welcome update to an already wonderful original. -- Venkatesh N. Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityThis book should be essential reading for budding and professional neuroscientists alike. With a new edition, Gordon Fain brings one right up to date on current issues and techniques across a wide range of topics and yet manages to capture the historical source and importance of these ideas as well. No desk should be without access to a copy. -- Jonathan Ashmore, Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics, University College LondonFain explains complex concepts with exquisite clarity. -- David Wallis * New Scientist *I find Fain’s approach remarkably refreshing. -- Jonathan Ashmore * Trends in Neuroscience *An excellent work. -- D. M. Senseman * Choice *
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