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Book SynopsisHelps you understand the emotions that you've been experiencing all of your life. This CD provides you with an understanding of what emotions are, what each of them means, and how to effectively utilize your new awareness of them. It also shows you how to open your own doors to whatever you may wish to be, do, or have.

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Book SynopsisBeyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explores how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years. Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual. He examines mental and behavioral issues from all sides, including the possibility that nurturing rather than trying toTrade ReviewMisdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder after a suicide attempt, Emmerson devotes his book and his life to asking good questions about how to prevent and best treat the condition. With veteran coauthor Yehling, he explains why he thinks the ADHD label should be retired and how he thinks people with it should be treated. He believes prescriptions should be used only as a last resort (his own experiences with them were not good). He identifies a major problem: doctors base their subjective diagnosis on observed behaviors, which is one reason 13-percent of kids are now diagnosed with it. 'We need to nail down and laser in on what ADHD is and what it isn’t,' he says. It’s hard to argue with recommendations like drinking plenty of water and avoiding high-fructose corn syrup, though Emmerson isn’t an M.D. Overall his enthusiasm for his topic and his general good advice, including promoting self-esteem and trying to create a 'gentler world,' will resonate with everyone concerned about ADHD, including his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. * Booklist *Courageous, tenacious, smart, and full of a hockey goalie's all-star heart, Jeff Emmerson probes behind the slogans and labels to get at the truth. A man on a mission, Jeff does the world of ADHD a great service with this book. -- Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction and many other books; Founder of The Hallowell Centers; host of the weekly podcast DistractionA beautiful amalgam of lived experience and first rate science writing. Helpful and inspiring for those who suffer with ADHD; essential for those who need protection from misdiagnosis and careless drug prescriptions. -- Allen Frances, MD, DSM-IV Task Force; author of author of Saving Normal; professor emeritus, Duke University School of MedicineTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE 1.In the Doctor’s Office 2.Peeking Behind the ADHD Curtain 3.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part One) 4.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part Two) 5.So Easy to Diagnose, So Tricky to Understand 6.Why Personal History Matters in Diagnosing 7.The Larger Problem of Misdiagnosis 8.Prescribing in An Open Ocean 9.What We’re Up Against 10.The ADHD Buy-In 11.What About Our Boys? PART TWO 12.What Is With My Brain? 13.Exploring the Deeper Causes 14.New Ways of Working with ADHD 15.Towards Collaborative Diagnosing & Care 16.Problem Child? Or Gifted Child? 17.Nutrition’s Necessary Place 18.Shaking off the Label 19.The World Beyond ADHD

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Book SynopsisIn the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Christopher D. Frith has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the fields of schizophrenia, consciousness, and social cognition. A specially written introduction gives an overview of his career and contextualises the selection in relation to changes in the field during this time. This collection reflects the various directions of Frith's work, which has become increasingly philosophically oriented throughout his career, and enables the reader to trace major developments in these areas over the last forty years. Frith has had his work nominated for the Royal Society Science Book Award and, in 2009, was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology. He haTable of Contents1. Consciousness, information processing and schizophrenia 2. Experiences of alien control in schizophrenia reflect a disorder in the central monitoring of action 3. Elective affinities in schizophrenia and childhood autism 4. Abnormalities in the awareness and control of action 5. Explaining delusions of control: The comparator model 20 years on 6. Willed action and the prefrontal cortex in man: a study with PET 7. The neural correlates of conscious experience: an experimental framework 8. What's at the top in the top-down control of action? Script-sharing and 'top-top' control of action in cognitive experiments 9. Action, agency and responsibility 10. Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition 11. The role of gaze in dialogue 12. Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system 13. Optimally interacting minds 14. Supra-Personal Cognitive Control and Metacognition

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Book SynopsisIn 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, Synaptic Self is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic.

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Book SynopsisChildren with ADD or ADHD can be a parenting nightmare. They can be disruptive and destructive and do not respond to guidance like other children. Medication may reduce symptoms, but disruptive behaviour often persists. Is there anything that the parent can do?Parenting the ADD Child brings together for the first time a variety of tried and tested methods in a unique, comprehensive and accessible format that will not be found elsewhere. It goes beyond the identification of the symptoms to tackle the changes parents can make, ensuring that behaviour problems associated with ADD and ADHD are managed and reduced.Trade Reviewan accessible, practical text with plenty of charts and activities for both children and parents. And although the strategies are not new (they will be very familiar to anyone involved in the management of difficult behaviour), this, in a way, is a strength: at least they are tried and tested. A useful addition to your resource base, especially for lending to parents. -- TES Special Needseasy to follow, jargon-free, and very parent friendly. In each of the twelve steps there is: an introduction on the aim of the technique involved in that step; what the parent/child will learn; tasks/exercises for parents to complete; how to implement the technique; tips for success; answers to frequently asked questions from parents in relation to that technique. There is no timescale to complete the whole ADDapt programme as it is realistic in acknowledging each family is different and need to go at their own pace.The most appealing factor about this book is that it has clearly been written by someone who has worked extensively with parents of children with ADD, who is fully aware and understanding of the of the problems they experience. The first eight chapters of the book provide parents with invaluable information and advice on issues which need to be looked at before beginning the ADDapt programme. If you read the whole book from start to finish, the amount of information to take in can seem overwhelming. However, it is written in such a way that parents are repeatedly reassured, guided and motivated.Although the book is primarily aimed at parents of children with ADD, I recommend it to be an invaluable source of reference for all professionals involved with such children and their families. -- Michelle Griffinthe one to buy. It is a practical self help strategy for parents and essential reading for teachers and other professionals involved in the identification and therapy of ADHD children if they are to understand just how difficult the parenting task is. David Pentecost is a family therapist who has really listened and learnt what ADHD parenting is all about, and thankfully written this excellent book which gives a background to the parenting scheme he has called ADDapt - ADD Alternative Parenting Techniques - and then goes on to describe in practical terms the twelve stages of the ADDapt programme. Parents will be pleased to hear a professional acknowledge that good parenting skills are not enough. ADHD requires different skills where the normal rules of good parenting sometimes don't work. -- Special ChildrenA helpful and practical book for harassed parents. The appendices provide names and addresses of support groups, a useful reading list, websites and a programme of "special time" for older children. -- ACE BulletinIn this book there are good strategies for any parent in the way we speak to our children, and he emphasises how seldom we are crystal-clear about what we really want from them. He also urges every parent to spell out that there will be a comeback for bad behaviour, which you must follow through. Pentecost points out that when it is matter of bad behaviour in ADD children, there is a great deal that boils down to bad habits. And that they find it harder to learn the rules for getting along with people. So help your child to pick up new ways of doing things, which will mean you have to learn new ways too.If you are a parent of an ADD or ADHD child and you are flagging, read this book. You will get a lot of additional help from the list of resources. -- family2000onwards.comTable of Contents1. Has your child got ADD? 2. Why write this book? 3. Why not just take pills? 4. What does ADDapt do? 5. Don't beat yourself up. 6. Be prepared to change. 7. Stick with it. Be patient. 8. Be consistent. The ADDapt Programme: Step 1. Keeping on Task - Powerful Motivators. Step 2. Who's the Boss? Special Time - A New Approach. Step 3. The Home Points System. Step 4. Tackling Attention Seeking. Step 5. Getting your Act Together. Step 6. Task Wars. Step 7. The Secret of Commands. Step 8. Mastering `Things to Do'. Step 9. Home Points System: Part 2. Step 10. Time Out for Difficult Behaviours: Part 2. Step 12. Bringing It All Together. Appendix 1. Working Together in Partnership. Appendix 2. Special Time and Older Children. Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisBesides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.Trade ReviewOffers a passionate and informative riposte to those who feel a ‘war on terror’ justifies barbarism. -- Hayden Murphy * The Guardian *Shane O’Mara’s book is a rebuttal to the torture memos that came out a few years ago that justified ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods used in Guantanamo Bay and Northern Ireland. He takes an empirical approach to torture. From a scientific point of view, even before getting into the morality, it is just ineffective. The FBI said the best technique is to get clever interrogators who are good at forming bonds. The analogy he uses is that if you had a computer that had information you wanted you wouldn’t hit it with a hammer because that would affect its recall. Humans work the same way. -- Neil Delamere * Irish Examiner *A powerful, convincing and thought-provoking volume. O’Mara presents us with the overwhelming scientific evidence that torture simply does not work. What is more, it damages memory and is highly likely to produce flawed intelligence. Claims of the utility of torture are no more than ‘cargo cult science.’…The significance of this book is difficult to overstate. Its conveyance of moral outrage as regards the practice of torture is unqualified and it delivers the evidence to repudiate all utilitarian justifications of the practice. It offers science-based pointers to manners of conducting interrogation that are both more effective and compliant with human rights standards. Furthermore, giventhe questions surrounding the utility of all statement-related evidence, it supports the long-standing calls for more focus on such other evidentiary sources as forensics and surveillance. It has a great deal to say to contemporary policy-makers and for police and intelligence services, not least at a moment of enhanced attention to counter-terrorism. The book demonstrates the importance of science in the pursuit of human rights…O’Mara deserves some sort of prize for this work. -- Michael O’Flaherty * Irish Times *Instead of simply providing utilitarian arguments, [O’Mara] argues that there is no evidence from psychology or neuroscience for many of the specious justifications of torture as an information-gathering tool. Providing an abundance of gruesome detail, O’Mara marshals vast, useful information about the effects of such practices on the brain and the body. -- Lasana T. Harris * Nature *Does torture actually work? To be sure, it can compel people to confess to crimes and to repudiate their religious and political beliefs. But there is a world of difference between compelling someone to speak and compelling them to tell the truth… Yet the assumption underlying the ticking time bomb defense is that abusive questioning reliably causes people to reveal truthful information that they would otherwise refuse to disclose. Few scholars have scrutinized this assumption—and none with the rigor, depth, and clarity of Shane O’Mara in his excellent book, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation… Invoking the relevant science, he shows that torture undermines the very neurocognitive mechanisms requisite for recalling veridical information from memory. -- Richard McNally * Science *If the aim of the torturers is to extract information, they should read O’Mara’s book and adopt gentler methods. CIA and the rest of you, read and note. Neuroscience says your methods don’t work. -- Steven Rose * Times Higher Education *Why Torture Doesn’t Work is a valuable book. O’Mara builds his case like a prosecutor, citing scientific studies and relentlessly poking holes in absurdities and inconsistencies in documents such as the ‘Torture Memos.’ Whether science matters to those who defend torture is another matter, as O’Mara knows: their motivation is often punitive, not practical. But once torture is imposed, the consequences, he says, are that it will be ‘ineffective, pointless, morally appalling, and unpredictable in its outcomes.’ -- Carl Elliott * New Scientist *Takes a scientific look at how the brain operates—or doesn’t—under stress, and points to more humane ways of getting information. -- Claire O’Connell * Irish Times *O’Mara recognizes that there are no clear, consistently successfully approaches to getting reliable information from captives. He makes a compelling case, however, that our current naïve intuitions and macho methods, including conducting interrogations in English to show who is in charge, as well as torture, are counterproductive. And that the training and experience of interrogators currently employed by the CIA is woefully inadequate. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Psychology Today *A catalog of the scientific evidence of how torture is at best ineffective, usually counterproductive, and always inhumane. In his exhaustive examination of the psychological literature on human (and animal) stress responses, O’Mara combs through numerous studies demonstrating how those stress responses are related to memory retrieval and communication, which are the stated goals of the U.S. military’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ The author’s main argument—that we could argue forever about the ethics of torture, but the point is moot if the techniques don't even work to solicit the information sought—is confirmed over and over as he works through experiments on the effects of sleep deprivation, pain, drowning, heating, cooling, sensory deprivation, and more. The experiments range from the well‐known obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram to lesser‐known studies that measured the cognitive effects of changes in core body temperature. O’Mara leaves no stone unturned as he meticulously details the procedures and outcomes of each experiment… Everything you never wanted to know—but probably should—about interrogation techniques and outcomes. * Kirkus Reviews *An authoritative analysis. -- Antoinette Brinkman * Library Journal *O’Mara has written a sober, convincing argument that torture is practically worthless and morally disgraceful. * Publishers Weekly *With accurate and compelling neuroscience, this book will be valuable to individuals outside the neuroscience world—in politics, in the military—who should know the scientific basis of torture as they make and execute policy in this area. -- Howard Eichenbaum, Boston UniversityOne of the most powerful arguments one can make against a practice is that it is self-defeating, given its own goals. This is a highly unusual book on torture—terrifically interesting. -- Henry Shue, Merton College, University of OxfordIn a meticulously researched book that reinforces the legal and ethical arguments against torture, Shane O’Mara focuses on its effects on human physiology…As O’Mara shows, torture techniques are mentally debilitating, affecting memory as well as mood, and thereby compromise the capacity of victims to form and deliver a reliable account of any information that they may be withholding. Not only is torture morally deplorable, therefore, but its outcome is also entirely unpredictable…O’Mara capably translates the experimental evidence into accessible language for the general reader. -- Giovanni Frazzetto * Financial Times *Fascinating…Why Torture Doesn’t Work is the empirical case against torture, a reading of scientific research which concludes that torture is a poor method of extracting information, and that the people who argued for it and used it had no idea what they were doing…The message of science, according to O’Mara, is unambiguous: torture makes it harder to obtain useful information, not easier…O’Mara deserves a lot of praise for writing a convincing and moral book. -- Greg Waldmann * Open Letters Monthly *The book takes readers on an extended tour of the brain and the way it functions under the ‘chronic, severe, and extreme stressor states’ produced by forms of torture such as starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding. O’Mara looks at the scientific literature examining the effects of these grim methods and determines that information obtained using them is inherently suspect…The last refuge in the defense of torture has always been an appeal to elevate pragmatism and security over ethics and the law in the face of a ‘ticking time bomb.’ O’Mara’s book reveals the hollowness of that argument. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *O’Mara marshals a large amount of scientific literature to make his point. -- Rupert Stone * Newsweek *O’Mara shows that the processes of enhanced interrogation do indeed create such stressful states—interestingly, both in the interrogated person and in the interrogator—that it is enormously destructive not only to the person but to the information; and not only immediately but in the longer term… [The book’s] greatest strength, to me, is the rigor of its evident deductivism and the way this is demonstrated, which seems to act almost as a catechism against those who, with Vice President Dick Cheney, would embrace ‘the dark side’ rather blithely… [It] provide[s] key documents testifying to the assumptions of our time about what constitutes a human being. -- Rebecca Lemov * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisMost general knowledge about the brain and its workings is very dated, drawing on studies from the first part of the previous century or even earlier. However, the advent of brain scanning which allows the study of the ordinary working brain, rather than just dead ones or people having brain surgery, has resulted in some amazing new developments that contribute immensely to our general social understanding of people and how they work. Written by Dr Nicky Hayes, bestselling author of Understand Psychology, Your Brain and You is a beginner''s guide to neuropsychology. It takes you through every aspect of how your brain works, from nervous systems and brain structures to neural transmission and neural correlates. You will discover how it all began, how it works, how we see, do things, hear and experience the outside world. Explore memories, relationships, emotions, decision-making, sleep, consciousness and common disorders such as dyslexia, dysgraphia & dyscalculi

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book A bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationshipsUse your head.   That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain. A host of “extra-neural” resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us— can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.  The Extended Mind outlines the research behind this excitin

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Book SynopsisDepression can make you feel like you're stuck in a downward spiral. But just as one small trigger can drag you down, one small positive change each day can jump start the momentum needed to carry you back up. Drawing on neuroscientist Alex Korb's innovative The Upward Spiral, this 52-card deck offers the same effective approach for reshaping the brain and creating an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life-all in a practical, take-anywhere format. A 52-card deck to rewire your brain and reverse the course of depression-one small change a timeWhen you have depression, you feel like you're stuck in a downward spiral. Nothing seems as enjoyable as it used to, and everything feels overwhelming. At your worst, you may feel emotionally and physically paralyzed, and even taking small steps toward recovery can seem impossible.Drawing on neuroscientist Alex Korb's innovative book, The Upward Spiral, this 52-card deck offers the same effective approach for reshaping the brain and creating an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life-all in a practical, take-anywhere format. By picking one card and making one small change each day, you may find that, over time, you feel better and better.Just as one small trigger can drag you down, one small positive change can jump start enough momentum to carry you back up. Exercise, attention to breathing, gratitude, sleep hygiene, and positive social interactions are just some of the tips and tools this card deck offers to help alter activity in specific neural circuits, setting you on the path toward the life you want.

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Book SynopsisBy creating a therapeutic outlet for self-expression and processing trauma, art therapy can play a powerful role in assisting people with a brain injury or neurological condition to adjust to living with altered abilities and ways of thinking. Bringing together a wealth of expertise from specialists working with a range of conditions including epilepsy, dementia, acquired brain injury, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis, this book describes both the effects of the conditions and the ways in which art therapy has helped in the rehabilitation process. The book includes work with groups and individuals and with a wide range of settings and age groups, from children to older adults, and discusses the implications of research from neuroscience and neuropsychology.This will be essential reading for art therapists and students working with neurological conditions. Other professionals working with people with neurological conditions such as psychotherapists and counsellors, doctors, nurses and complementary therapists will also find it of interest.Trade ReviewIt's high time the value of art therapy is more generally recognized, not just for stroke survivors, but for all types of brain injury, as well as dementia and mental health problems. This inspiring book looks at the science behind art therapy as well as offering case studies. It should be given a wide circulation. -- From the foreword by Jackie Ashley, journalist and broadcaster, President-Elect, Lucy Cavendish College, University of CambridgeIn dealing with the diverse aspects of art therapy, the making, thinking about and working with imagery and tangible and symbolic processing, this inspired and inspiring book shows how successfully art therapists adapt their practice for people with many different neurological conditions in a variety of clinical and community settings. It will be an invaluable resource for art therapists and other professionals in this field, and a vital source of information and insight for trainee art therapists. -- Deborah Gibson, MA Art Therapy Research, PG Dip Art Therapy, RATh, Art therapist, supervisor and lecturerThis book should be read by everyone who is interested in the interface between art therapy and neurology. It presents the underpinnings of what could develop in to a new theory of art therapy. -- Frances F. Kaplan, DA, ATR-BC, Art Therapist, Teacher of Graduate Art Therapy Courses, Marylhurst University, and author of Art, Science and Art TherapyIf anyone needs confirmation that art therapy is the approach to use in the treatment and recovery of neurological conditions this is the book to read. Within these chapters the author practitioners convey the extraordinary range and adaptation of interventions available that enable increased access to therapy for patients, carers and public services considering employing art therapists.I was transfixed throughout both by the compassion of the case studies but also the authority of knowledge embedded in each chapter.A truly pioneering work, showing how the development of art therapy knowledge and expertise has risen to a sophisticated level of authority in delivery and awareness of the therapeutic contribution it can make to such a complex subject. -- Kate Rothwell, Art Psychotherapist, Head of Arts Therapies in the Forensic Directorate of the East London Foundation NHS Trust, Art Psychotherapist H.M.P GrendonTable of ContentsForeword by Jackie Ashley. Preface. Introduction. Sally Weston, Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield and Marian Liebmann, Central Recovery Team, Bristol and Penny Brohn Cancer Care. ADULTS. Part I. Setting the Scene. 1. Neurology and Art Therapy. Debbie Michaels, Independent Practice. 2. Beyond Limits: Art Therapy with People with Severe Physical Limitations. Simon Bell, Private Practice. 3. The Janus Response: Coming to Terms with Life Changes due to Brain Injury or Other Neurological Conditions. Iris von Sass Hyde, Department of Neuropsychology in Lincoln, member of the Cambridge Jungian Association. Part II. Acquired Brain Injury. 4. Art Therapy, Identity and Adjustment After Acquired Brain Injury. Carole Connelly, Acquired Brain Injury Unit, Northern Ireland. 5. Art Therapy at a Rehabilitation Day Centre for Adults and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury. Anna Knight, Headway, Rehabilitation Day Centre for Adults with Acquired Brain Injury. 6. A Glimpse Beneath the Surface of Organisational Life: Art Therapy in Brain Injury and Stroke Services. Debbie Michaels, Independent Practice. 7. Art Therapy and Insight and Awareness after Brain Injury. Sally Weston, Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. Part III. Epilepsy. 8. Art Therapy after Acquiring Seizures in Adulthood. Quentin Bruckland, UCLH Sir William Gower's Inpatient Assessment Unit, Epilepsy Society. 9. 'This is My Dream World': Art Therapy with Young Adults with Epilepsy and Learning Disabilities. Andrea Gregg, Epilepsy Specialist Provider in the Private Sector. Part IV. Dementia. 10. Reframing and Reconnecting: An Art Therapy Group for People with Dementia. Elizabeth Ashby, NHS Coventry and Warwickshire. 11. 'My Coat or Yours?' Generating Peer Support and Interpersonal Relationships through Art Therapy for Minority Ethnic People Experiencing Early Onset Dementia Living at Home. Melody Golebiowski, Private Practice. Part V. Other Neurological Conditions. 12. Have We Met Before? Images as an Aide Memoir to Restructure Identity with a Man with Korsakoff's Syndrome. Jenny Wood, Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust, Lexden Hospital, Colchester and Private Practice, Residential Care Home. 13. What's Colour Got to Do with it? Art Therapy and Motor Neurone Disease: An Anthroposophical Approach. Marion Green, Trainer and Intensive Trauma Therapist. CHILDREN. 14. Art Therapy and Encephalitis. Mark Wheeler, Specialist CAMHS North Nottinghamshire and Private Practice. 15. Art Therapy with a Boy Living with a Life Threatening Illness. Judith Ducker, NHS, Private Practice and Charitable Organisations. PERSONAL REFLECTIONS. 16. Art Therapist: Heal Thyself!. Mark Wheeler, Specialist CAMHS North Nottinghamshire and Private Practice. Glossary. Author Biographies. Index.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSection 1. Normal Physiology and Function 1. Skeletal muscle structure, physiology, and function 2. Upper and lower motor neuron neurophysiology and motor control 3. Vestibular motor control 4. Autonomic failure: Clinicopathologic, physiologic, and genetic aspects 5. Gait control by the frontal lobe 6. Parietal control of hand movement 7. Immunology and microbiome: Implications for motor systems 8. COVID-19 (novel SARS-CoV-2) neurological illness Section 2. Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis 9. Neurogenetic motor disorders 10. Neuromuscular electrodiagnosis 11. Quantitative electrodiagnosis of the motor unit 12. Neuromuscular pathology 13. Electrophysiological assessment of peripheral and central autonomic disorders 14. On the path to evidence-based therapy in neuromuscular disorders 15. Advances in the neuroimaging of motor disorders 16. Sleep-related motor disorders Section 3. Neuromuscular Disorders 17. Neonatal and infantile hypotonia 18. Autoimmune inflammatory myopathies 19. Childhood muscular dystrophies 20. Distal myopathy 21. Muscle channelopathies 22. Congenital myopathies 23. Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy 24. Autoimmune polyneuropathies 25. Hereditary neuropathy 26. Acute/chronic inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy 27. Myasthenia gravis and congenital myasthenic syndromes 28. Adult and childhood vasculitis 29. Critical illness-associated weakness and related motor disorders

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface I. Setting the scene and introductory chapters 1. How medical cannabis may influence the future of medicine Martha Rosenthal 2. Medical cannabis and cannabinoids: how best to extract components from plant material Roberta Costi 3. Medicinal usage of cannabis and its impact on mental health among cancer patients and survivors Nicolas Hernandez Ortega, Ye Chen, Jessica Y. Islam, Diane Rodriguez, Marlene Camacho-Rivera and Denise Christina Vidot 4. Cannabis sativa as a traditional phytomedicine: a new narrative covering different countries Md Nasir Ahmed, Tridib Paul, Md. Nur Kabidul Azam, Rownak Jahan and Mohammed Rahmatullah 5. Medical use of cannabis in the middle east Bader Hamza Shirah, Mohammed Ahmed and Ruba Saleh 6. What medicinal cannabis is used for: a focus on Canada Dean T. Eurich, Cerina Lee and Jason Dyck 7. New York perspectives of medical cannabis laboratory analysis Lingyun Li, Stacey Chmura, Christopher Judd and Bryan C. Duffy 8. Potential roles of epigenetic memory on the quality of clonal cannabis plants: Content and profile of secondary metabolites Mohsen Hesami and Max Jones 9. Aberrant use of medicinal cannabis: theoretical and empirical considerations Daniel Feingold 10. Profile of older users of medical cannabis and cannabinoids Joshua Brown 11. Use of cannabidiol oil by caregivers: a focus on Alzheimer's disease Magdalena Leszko 12. Medicinal use of cannabis: adverse events as a balanced perspective Giada Crescioli, Valentina Maggini, Fabio Firenzuoli, Alfredo Vannacci and Niccolo Lombardi II. Physiological aspects and metabolic aspects 13. Physiopathology and use of cannabinoids for fibrotic diseases Carmen del Rio and E. Munoz 14. Cannabinoids in inflammation and atherosclerosis Leonor Thomson, Edward Moreira-Bahnson and Bruno Musetti 15. Targeting the CB(2) receptors and other endocannabinoid elements to delay disease progression in cardiovascular diseases Shreesh Ojha 16. BMI in cannabis users: regulation, mechanisms and public health impact Thomas Clark III. Neurological, psychological and behavioural aspects 17. Neuroprotection by cannabis related products, cannabidiol and cannabigerol, and associated mechanisms of action Carolina Echeverry Sr., Jimena Fagetti, Miguel Reyes-Parada and Cecilia Scorza 18. Cannabis terpenes as neuroprotective agents: a focus on alpha-bisabolol John Staton Laws, Srijan Shrestha and Scott D. Smid 19. Cannabidiol in medicinal usage of stress: modelling investigations into cocaine M. Julia García-Fuster and Olga Valverde 20. Medicinal cannabis and neurocognition impairment Caroline MacCallum, April Christiansen, Lindsay Lo, Carly Pistawka, Michael Boivin and Melissa Snider-Adler 21. Genetic models of audiogenic seizures: what they are and how cannabinoids and Cannabis-derived compounds can be used to alleviate their symptoms - an updated narrative Norberto Garcia-Cairasco 22. Addressing the validity of cannabinoid therapy as an option for the treatment of substance use disorder Rose Chesworth, Erin McLemon and Tim Karl IV. Pharmacological and cellular aspects 23. Cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), features and profiles: anti-hyperalgesic effects G. Singh, Katja Linher-Melville and Raphael Mechoulam 24. Cannabis-drug interactions: implications for medicinal cannabis use Fran Gengo, Anna Mattle and Christopher Ralyea 25. Cannabinoid receptor subtype 2 (CB2R): features and targets for medical applications Marialessandra Contino, Carmen Abate, Nicola Antonio Colabufo, Francesco Leonetti and Angela Stefanachi 26. Medical use of cannabidiol and impact on cancer cell viability Kent E. Chair and Wesley Raup-Konsavage 27. Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant and immunomodulatory effects of phytocannabinoid ß-caryophyllene: A mechanistic overview Vafa Baradaran Rahimi, Arghavan Memarzia and Prof. Vahid Reza Askari V. Symptom Control and Medicinal Uses 28. Cancer patients and providers: Attitudes and beliefs of cannabis and cannabinoids use as a treatment Kimberson Tanco 29. CBD (cannabidiol) use in breast cancer chemotherapy Ana I. Torres-Suarez, Ana Isabel Fraguas-Sánchez and Ana Fernández-Carballido 30. Sleep: cannabis and cannabinoids use Eric Murillo-Rodríguez 31. Cannabis and cannabis related products and their uses in aiding sexual health of men and women Lynnette Nathalie Lyzwinski 32. Symptom control in palliative care settings: The role of cannabis-based medicines Maximillian Stevenson and Leah Sera 33. Cannabidiol (CBD) Use in Fragile X Spectrum Disorders Devon Johnson and Randi J. Hagerman 34. Hempseed (Cannabis sativa) and ameliorative effects in hypercholesterolemia NAVEEN KAUSHAL 35. Benzodiazepines and cannabis use Chad Alexander Purcell 36. Features of (+)-trans-cannabidiol-2-hydroxy pentyland applications to disease: a focus on usage in diabetic nephropathy E. Munoz, Matthias Winkler, Marcus Goetz and Isabel Gonzalez Mariscal 37. Medical use of cannabis: applications to Tourette syndrome Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl and Natalia Szejko 38. Cannabinoids and their use in chronic non-cancer pain: a new narrative review Stanley Sau-Ching Wong and Chi Wai Cheung 39. Endometriosis: features and potential role of medical cannabis Mike Armour and Justin Sinclair 40. Cannabis usage for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: a narrative Joseph Feuerstein and Rajsavi Anand 41. Medical cannabis and use in migraine Jessica Jiang and Alasdair M. Barr 42. Cannabidiol (CBD ) and potential in medicinal use in rheumatoid arthritis Torsten Lowin 43. Role of Cannabinoids in Glaucoma: Lowering Intraocular Pressure or Neuroprotection Ujendra Kumar, Sneha Singh and Rishi Somvanshi 44. Medicinal potential of anandamide as a representative endocannabinoid and its effect at the cellular level in skin Adrianna Maria Piasek and Anna Sobiepanek VI. Resources 45. Medical Cannabis and Resources Rajkumar Rajendram

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Book SynopsisWith an array of critical and engaging pedagogical features, the fifth edition of Motor Learning and Control for Practitioners offers the best practical introduction to motor learning available. This reader-friendly text approaches motor learning in accessible and simple terms and lays a theoretical foundation for assessing performance; providing effective instruction; and designing practice, rehabilitation, and training experiences that promote skill acquisition. Features such as Exploration Activities and Cerebral Challenges involve students at every stage, while a broad range of examples helps readers put theory into practice. The book also provides access to a fully updated companion website, which includes laboratory exercises, an instructors' manual, a test bank, and lecture slides. As a complete resource for teaching an evidence-based approach to practical motor learning, this is an essential text for undergrad and post-grad students, researchers, and praTrade Review"I have found this text to be helpful in engaging my students and creating a leaning environment that is interactive. As a result I have had a positive interchange between instructor and students." Charla Bouranis, Salem State University, USA"Within my 17 years of teaching in higher education, I have never adopted another textbook for teaching motor learning because this text is so complete."George Walker, Cumberland University, USATable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Chapter 1 - Introduction to Motor Learning and Control Chapter 2 - Understanding Movement Preparation Chapter 3 - The Role of Attention, Arousal and Visual Search in Movement Preparation Chapter 4 - Behavioral Theories of Motor Control Chapter 5 - Neural Mechanisms: Contributions and Control Chapter 6 - Stages of Learning Chapter 7 - The Learner: Pre-Instruction Considerations Chapter 8 - Skill Presentation Chapter 9 - Principles of Practice Design Chapter 10 - Practice Schedules Chapter 11 - Diagnosing Errors Chapter 12 - Correcting Errors Epilogue – Cases References Index

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Book SynopsisA PARADIGM SHIFT FOR CAREGIVERS THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY YOU APPROACH, TREAT OR PARENT A CHILD WITH CHALLENGING OR EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIOURS. When you are confronted with a child who is troubled, disruptive, oppositional, defiant or angry - whether you are a parent or a teacher - it can be difficult to know the best way to support them. Traditional methods of 'shaping' a child's behaviour can often be at best ineffective, at worst distressing, for child and adult alike.Drawing on 30 years of experience, internationally known paediatric psychologist Dr Mona Delahooke describes these troubled behaviours as the 'tip of the iceberg', important signals that point to deeper, individual differences in the child that we need to understand and address before we can resolve behavioural challenges. Using the very latest neuroscientific research Beyond Behaviours makes the case that many children who can't seem to behave simply don't have the developmental capacity to do so - yet. This book uses neuroscientific findings to help you deconstruct behaviour challenges, and to discover their cause and triggers for your child. It will show you how to apply this knowledge across a variety of behaviour spectrums, from children diagnosed with autism or other forms of neurodiversity, to those who might have been exposed to toxic stress or trauma during their early years. There are practical strategies to implement at every stage, backed up by impactful worksheets and charts, with a strong emphasis not on 'managing' behaviour, but instead on helping children and families build positive experiences to counteract the stress and pressure felt by everybody when you're working, or living, with a child who has behavioural challenges. Accessible, practical, warmly supportive and steeped in research and clinical expertise, Beyond Behaviours offers a break-through book which guides us - parents and caregivers alike - to the realisation that the most important tool in our toolkit is always our connection with the child standing in front of us.Trade Review"Beyond Behaviors provides the basis for a paradigm shift in understanding and treating children with disruptive behaviors. this accessible and beautifully written volume, Dr. Delahooke pulls the veil off this myth and replaces it with a neurobiologically-informed treatment model that provides insightful directives leading to effective outcomes." -- Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Indiana University, Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, and author of "The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe""As a developmental psychologist, compassion teacher, and autism mum, I can whole-heartedly say this book is brilliant. Traditional methods of 'shaping' children's behaviors typically ignore children's emotional state, at great cost to the child's ability to learn, develop, and form secure relationships. This book provides concrete ways to help understand safety as the foundation for children's learning, working with rather than against natural brain functions to maximize learning potential." -- Kristin Neff, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself""I love this book. It will be one I give and recommend over and over. Beyond Behaviors is succinct, accessible, practical, science-based. And it's a game changer. My hope is that not only parents, educators, clinicians, and all helping professionals read it, but that it becomes required reading for professionals in training." -- Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW, Executive Director of The Center for Connection and co-author of the bestsellers "The Whole-Brain Child" and "No-Drama Discipline""This book will embrace every parent and professional puzzling over behavioral challenges and make you question the assumptions about their meaning and re-evaluate how to help. Beyond Behaviors will help every child and family progress, feel safe, enjoy relationships, and develop to their fullest." -- Serena Wieder, PhD, Clinical Director, Profectum Foundation, co-creator of the DIR Model, and co-author of "The Child with Special Needs" and "Engaging Autism""Dr. Mona Delahooke is a child psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with children who have behavioral challenges. With compassion and insight, she guides us toward creating healing environments of safety and security." -- Marilyn R. Sanders, MD, FAAP, Attending Neonatologist, Connecticut Children's Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine"I love Beyond Behaviors. One of the best features of this book are the practical, empowering, step-by-step ideas for finding the calm self-acceptance necessary for building a healing, supportive relationship with even the most challenging and frightened child." -- Dona Matthews, PhD, Developmental Psychologist and co-author of "Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids""Brilliant! This book is an essential read for all people who care for or interact with children." -- Megan Stilwill, DO FAAP, Paediatrician"This is a wonderful book that takes complicated concepts and new ways of thinking about children and makes them digestible and useable for parents and professionals alike." -- Mim Ochsenbein, MSW, OTR/L, Director of Education, The Star Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder"This book should be required reading for frustrated parents and those of us in a position of diagnosing or creating behavior plans for children. Imagine the amazing outcomes if we followed Mona Delahooke's guide to empower and support children through their big feelings and behaviors, rather than focusing only on the tip of the iceberg." -- Nicole Schwarz, MA, LMFT, Parent CoachEssential reading for parents and professionals alike in supporting children and young people with behavioural challenges. * Dr Christopher Moore *

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Book SynopsisNeuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand the biological basis of our behaviour. This includes the behaviour of the coach and the client.This practical and much needed book explains basic brain functioning and offers a guide to using this knowledge to advance our coaching and make our practice more effective. It builds extensively on the fact that we do now know that feelings underly all decision-making and focuses coaching on helping clients establish intelligent emotions as the basis of their own decision systems. Using a systemic model of emotions, energy and change, Paul Brown and Virginia Brown show coaches how to integrate the client's life experience into coaching and create change. This is a must read for all practising coaches."This book is scattered with insightful, thought-provoking and occasionally beautiful analogies and metaphors, which any reader would be hard-pressed not to be challenged by. The (unrelated) Browns absolutelyTable of ContentsSeries editor's prefacePreface Biographical beginnings: making sense of the brainRegulation and Relationship: carrier signals between coach and clientOxytocin and other clever chemicalsWondering: the basis for knowing and changeNeurobehavioural modelling (NBM)Behavioural change that sticksRelationships that affect change and developmentAffective interactionIntelligent emotionsNBM revisitedGlossaryBibliography

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Book SynopsisBrain and behaviour are intrinsically linked. Animals demonstrate a huge and complex repertoire of behaviours, so how can specific behaviours be mapped onto the complicated neural circuits of the brain? Highlighting the extraordinary advances that have been made in the field of behavioural neuroscience over recent decades, this book examines how behaviours can be understood in terms of their neural mechanisms. Each chapter outlines the components of a particular behaviour, discussing laboratory techniques, the key brain structures involved, and the underpinning cellular and molecular mechanisms. Commins covers a range of topics including learning in a simple invertebrate, fear conditioning, taste aversion, sound localization, and echolocation in bats, as well as more complex behaviours, such as language development, spatial navigation and circadian rhythms. Demonstrating key processes through clear, step-by-step explanations and numerous illustrations, this will be valuable reading forTrade Review'Behavioural neuroscience has long lacked a research-relevant, up-to-date textbook providing a comprehensive theoretical and experimental treatment. Seán Commins is to be congratulated for having written a vital and important textbook which should be at the heart of teaching behavioural neuroscience everywhere. Written carefully and clearly, replete with up to date research, cross-species comparisons as well as a strong focus on understanding experimental methodologies and how they relate to theoretical issues, this book should become the standard reference for teaching, and a prompt for further research.' Shane O'Mara, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Neurons and neural communication; 2. An introduction to the brain; 3. Neuroscientific methods; 4. Examination of animal behaviour: general principles and techniques; 5. Habituation and sensitisation in the Aplysia; 6. Classical conditioning in the Aplysia; 7. Long-term synaptic plasticity in mammals I: long-term potentiation (LTP); 8. Long-term synaptic plasticity in mammals II: long-term depression (LTD); 9. Eye-blink conditioning; 10. Fear conditioning; 11. Taste aversion; 12. Sound localisation; 13. Bat echolocation; 14. Spatial navigation; 15. Birdsong learning; 16. Circadian rhythms; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinking perspective on clinical science. It reviews modern research practices in clinical psychology that support the goals of psychological science, study designs that promote good research, and quantitative methods that can test specific scientific questions. It covers new themes in research including intensive longitudinal designs, neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and advanced computational methods such as machine learning. Core chapters examine significant statistical topics, for example missing data, causality, meta-analysis, latent variable analysis, and dyadic data analysis. A balanced overview of observational and experimental designs is also supplied, including preclinical research and intervention science. This is a foundational resource that supports the methodological training of the current and future generations of clinicTrade Review'The editors have produced an indispensable tome. For the first time, the various methods and approaches used by clinical psychology researchers have been brought together. This book represents a watershed moment in the development of clinical psychology as a scientific discipline and belongs on the bookshelves of all clinical psychologists.' Robert F. Krueger, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota'This handbook provides a much-needed primer on a range of methods important for clinical science. It would be an excellent addition to a graduate introductory course on methods in clinical science or a very useful resource for more advanced researchers wanting to learn about new approaches and methods in the field.' Deanna M. Barch, Chair and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University, St Louis'Assembled by two highly respected clinical scientists, this handbook is current, comprehensive, and sophisticated. Researchers across a wide spectrum of experience will find this volume invaluable to their work. Written by leading experts, the chapters discuss methodological and quantitative approaches to address clinical psychology's most pressing questions.' Josh Miller, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, University of Georgia'This comprehensive treatment of the cutting-edge methods and procedures used in the rapidly evolving field of clinical research should be a go-to resource for anyone interested in the state-of-the-art in the discipline of clinical psychology. Topics as diverse as latent variable models, molecular genetics, functional imaging, and the replication crisis all receive clear and detailed consideration.' Leslie C. Morey, George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsSection I. Clinical Psychological Science: An Evolving Field: 1. Trends in the evolving discipline of clinical psychology; 2. Defining and refining phenotypes: operational definitions as open concepts; 3. Building models of psychopathology spanning multiple modalities of measurements; Section II. Observational Approaches: 4. The conceptual foundations of descriptive psychopathology; 5. Survey and interview methods; 6. Psychometrics in clinical psychology research; 7. Latent variable models in clinical psychology; 8. Psychiatric epidemiology methods; Section III. Experimental and Biological Approaches: 9. Conceptual foundations of experimental psychopathology: historical context, scientific posture, and reflections on substantive and method matters; 10. A practical guide for designing and conducting cognitive studies in child psychopathology; 11. Peripheral psychophysiology; 12. Behavioral and molecular genetics; 13. Concepts and principles of clinical functional magnetic resonance imaging; 14. Reinforcement learning approaches to computational clinical neuroscience; Section IV. Developmental Psychopathology and Longitudinal Methods: 15. Studying psychopathology in early life: foundations of developmental psychopathology; 16. Adolescence and puberty: understanding the emergency of psychopathology; 17. Quantitative genetics research strategies for studying gene-environment interplay in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology; 18. Designing and managing longitudinal studies; 19. Measurement and comorbidity models for longitudinal data; Section V. Intervention Approaches: 20. The multiphase optimization strategy for developing and evaluating behavioral interventions; 21. Future directions in developing and evaluating psychological interventions; 22. Health psychology and behavioral medicine: methodological issues in the study of psychosocial influences on disease; Section VI. Intensive Longitudinal Designs: 23. Ambulatory assessment; 24. Modeling intensive longitudinal data; 25. Modeling the individual: bridging nomothetic and idiographic levels of analysis; 26. Social processes and dyadic designs; 27. Models for dyadic data; Section VII. General Analytic Considerations: 28. Reproducibility in clinical psychology; 29. Meta-analysis: integration of empirical findings through quantitative modeling; 30. Mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: regression-based approaches for clinical research; 31. Statistical inference for causal effects in clinical psychology: fundamental concepts and analytical approaches; 32. Analyzing nested data: multilevel modeling and alternative approaches; 33. Missing data analyses; 34. Machine learning for clinical psychology and clinical neuroscience.

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Book SynopsisBrain and behaviour are intrinsically linked. Animals demonstrate a huge and complex repertoire of behaviours, so how can specific behaviours be mapped onto the complicated neural circuits of the brain? Highlighting the extraordinary advances that have been made in the field of behavioural neuroscience over recent decades, this book examines how behaviours can be understood in terms of their neural mechanisms. Each chapter outlines the components of a particular behaviour, discussing laboratory techniques, the key brain structures involved, and the underpinning cellular and molecular mechanisms. Commins covers a range of topics including learning in a simple invertebrate, fear conditioning, taste aversion, sound localization, and echolocation in bats, as well as more complex behaviours, such as language development, spatial navigation and circadian rhythms. Demonstrating key processes through clear, step-by-step explanations and numerous illustrations, this will be valuable reading for students of zoology, animal behaviour, psychology, and neuroscience.Trade Review'Behavioural neuroscience has long lacked a research-relevant, up-to-date textbook providing a comprehensive theoretical and experimental treatment. Seán Commins is to be congratulated for having written a vital and important textbook which should be at the heart of teaching behavioural neuroscience everywhere. Written carefully and clearly, replete with up to date research, cross-species comparisons as well as a strong focus on understanding experimental methodologies and how they relate to theoretical issues, this book should become the standard reference for teaching, and a prompt for further research.' Shane O'Mara, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Neurons and neural communication; 2. An introduction to the brain; 3. Neuroscientific methods; 4. Examination of animal behaviour: general principles and techniques; 5. Habituation and sensitisation in the Aplysia; 6. Classical conditioning in the Aplysia; 7. Long-term synaptic plasticity in mammals I: long-term potentiation (LTP); 8. Long-term synaptic plasticity in mammals II: long-term depression (LTD); 9. Eye-blink conditioning; 10. Fear conditioning; 11. Taste aversion; 12. Sound localisation; 13. Bat echolocation; 14. Spatial navigation; 15. Birdsong learning; 16. Circadian rhythms; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume debates the conceptual, epistemic and practical questions that arise when law and neuroscience meet. Containing original insights about the potential reach of neuroscience and sophisticated accounts of the limitations it faces, the volume will appeal to lawyers, criminologists, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists and psychiatrists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Conceptual Disputes: Brains as the Locus of Responsibility?: 1. Neuroscience and the explanation of human action Dennis Patterson; 2. 'Nothing but a pack of neurons:' the moral responsibility of the human machine Michael S. Moore; 3. Non-eliminative reductionism: not the theory of mind some responsibility theorists want, but the one they need Katrina Sifferd; 4. Intention as non-observational knowledge: rescuing responsibility from the brain Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov; 5. Efficient causation and neuroscientific explanations of criminal action Nick J. Davis; Part II. Epistemic Disputes: What does Neuroscience Tell Law about Responsibility?: 6. Lying, deception, and fMRI: a critical update Michael S. Pardo; 7. Brain-based lie detection and the mereological fallacy: reasons for optimism John Danaher; 8. Is brain reading mind reading? Pim Haselager and Giulio Mecacci; Part III. Implications for Courts and Defendants: 9. Unlucky, bad, and the space in between: why criminologists should think more about responsibility Peter Raynor; 10. Neuroscience and the criminal jurisdiction: a new approach to reliability and admissibility in the courts of England and Wales Joanna Glynn; 11. Should individuals with psychopathy be compensated for their fearlessness? (Or how neuroscience matters for equality) Marion Godman; 12. The treatment of psychopathy: conceptual and ethical issues Elizabeth Shaw.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the interaction between cooperation and conflict in establishing effective social behaviour is a fundamental challenge facing societies. Reflecting the breadth of current research in this area, this volume brings together experts from biology to political science to examine the cooperationconflict interface at multiple levels, from genes to human societies. Exploring both the exciting new directions and the biggest challenges in their fields, the authors focus on identifying commonalities across species and disciplines to help understand what features are shared broadly and what are limited to specific contexts. Each chapter is written to be accessible to students and researchers from interdisciplinary backgrounds, with text boxes explaining terminology and concepts that may not be familiar across disciplinary boundaries, while being a valuable resource to experts in their fields.Trade Review'… this book could be an interesting option when preparing a class on cooperation and conflict, due to its broad angle and insights from different disciplines. It also offers a good starting point for literature searches on the topic and thus hopefully succeeds with its aim of being accessible to students and researchers and of generating new insights and leading to further research into this fascinating topic.' Gabriella Gall, ISBE Newsletter'… the scope of the book is amazing … Recommended.' J. A. Mather, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction. Understanding for relationship between cooperation and conflict Walter Wilczynski and Sarah Brosnan; Part I. Broad Insights from Political Science to Molecular Behaviour: 1. Reconciliation and civil wars reconsidered William J. Long; 2. Internalizing cooperative norms in group-structured populations Erol Akçay and Jeremy Van Cleve; 3. Reputation: a fundamental route to human cooperation Junhui Wu, Daniel Balliet and Paul A. M. Van Lange; 4. Finding the right balance: cooperation and conflict in nature Elizabeth A. Ostrowski; Part II. Neural Mechanisms: 5. Social living and rethinking the concept of 'prosociality' Heather K. Caldwell and H. Elliott Albers; 6. The role of the temporal lobe in human social cognition Katherine L. Bryant, Christina N. Rogers Flattery and Matthias Schurz; 7. Role of oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptor variation on personality, social behavior, social cognition, and the brain in nonhuman primates with a specific emphasis in chimpanzees William D. Hopkins and Robert D. Latzman; Part III. Species Comparisons: 8. Understanding the trade-off between cooperation and conflict in avian societies Amanda R. Ridley and Martha J. Nelson-Flower; 9. Cooperation and conflict in mutualisms with a special emphasis on marine cleaning interaction Redouan Bshary; 10. Frenemies: the interplay between cooperation and conflict in the evolution and function of insect societies Clare C. Rittschof and Christina M. Grozinger; Index.

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Book SynopsisAll students and researchers of behaviour from those observing freely-behaving animals in the field to those conducting more controlled laboratory studies face the problem of deciding what exactly to measure. Without a scientific framework on which to base them, however, such decisions are often unsystematic and inconsistent. Providing a clear and defined starting point for any behavioural study, this is the first book to make available a set of principles for how to study the organisation of behaviour and, in turn, for how to use those insights to select what to measure. The authors provide enough theory to allow the reader to understand the derivation of the principles, and draw on numerous examples to demonstrate clearly how the principles can be applied. By providing a systematic framework for selecting what behaviour to measure, the book lays the foundations for a more scientific approach for the study of behaviour.Trade Review'Describing what animals actually do in their normal daily activities was deemed essential by the early naturalists and ethologists. Today, many journals actively discourage publishing such research findings. What the Pellis team accomplishes in this book is to document, based on their and others' extensive experience and accomplishments, that careful description can itself be hypothesis driven and answer research questions that experiments with simple, but convenient, dependent measures cannot. This compact guide elegantly shows how to use modern methods to describe and quantify behaviour and embed findings in the behaviour systems in which they occur. From seemingly simple behaviour patterns such as righting, huddling, and reaching, to fighting, foraging, play, and courtship, the authors provide myriad insights and research guidance. Today, in a rapidly changing world, it is more essential than ever to study how the behaviour of animals is being altered, both in natural communities and in experimental laboratories.' Gordon M. Burghardt, University of Tennessee, USA'The Pellis' little book is a big gift box in which you'll find a trove of crafted ideas and handy examples of how behaviour can be analysed in ways that reveal marvellous, unsuspected dimensions of behavioural organisation. Using some of the “simplest” and most common individual and social acts in animal behaviour, they offer observational and analytic tools for seeing the deep structure of behaviour and how, in some cases, their approach can take us into the brain or out to emergent levels of organisation. Practical for students and researchers, and delightful for science-oriented fans of organisms. Put it on your shelf for repeated openings and explorations.' Jeffrey R. Alberts, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA'… a fascinating new way of considering animal behavior … This would be a most useful text for any student or researcher of animal behaviors … Highly recommended.' D. C. Marston, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. What is the problem and what is the solution?; 2. Behaviour as a means, not an end; 3.The deep structure of behavior; 4. The brain is not alone; 5. Bringing it all together: steps in the descriptive process; 6. What of the future?; Epilogue; Appendix A. Eshkol–Wachman movement notation and descriptive analysis; Appendix B. Practice, practice, practice; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis well-established and acclaimed textbook introducing the rapidly growing field of nerve and muscle function has been completely revised and updated. Written with undergraduate students in mind, it begins with the fundamental principles demonstrated by the pioneering electrophysiological experiments on cell excitability. This leads to more challenging material recounting recent discoveries from applying modern biochemical, genetic, physiological and biophysical, experimental and mathematical analysis. The resulting interdisciplinary approach conveys a unified contemporary understanding of nerve and skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle function at the molecular, cellular and systems levels. Emphasis on important strategic experiments throughout clarifies the basis for our current scientific views, highlights the excitement and challenge of biomedical discovery, and suggests directions for future advances. These fundamental ideas are then translated into discussions of related disease conditions and their clinical management. Now including colour illustrations, it is an invaluable text for students of physiology, neuroscience, cell biology and biophysics.Trade Review'Huang has taken on the mammoth task of bringing the book up-to-date and has succeeded in maintaining the enthusiastic and eminently readable approach of Keynes and Aidley, who created one of the greatest physiology books covering the crucial areas of nerve and muscle. The fascinating historical perspectives on the discovery of membrane potentials, the transmission of nerve impulses and their molecular basis are essential reading for students of medicine and physiology with a curiosity about scientific methods, and progress.' Michael A. Ferenczi, Imperial College London'...a beautifully written gem. It is clearly illustrated, and it makes one of the most difficult areas of biology completely accessible. It should find its way onto the bookshelves of electrophysiologists everywhere and any students who aspire to master one of the most exciting areas of modern biology.' Denis Noble, University of Oxford'This classic textbook on the fundamental biophysics and physiology of nerve and muscle remains an unparalleled source of knowledge that has served the scientific field for decades. Prof. Huang elegantly manages to update this edition with recent findings within this broad field continuing the excellence that characterizes this work.' Thomas Holm Pedersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark'Professor Christopher Huang has updated and significantly broadened the scope and the translational endpoints of the classical textbook of Integrative and Cell Physiology Keynes & Aidley's Nerve and Muscle. The result is a comprehensive, well planned, logically presented and extensively referenced monograph. Based on the text and supporting figures, it builds on the strengths of the parent textbook while also providing new in-depth coverage of recent advances in neurophysiology as well as skeletal and cardiac muscle electrophysiology and contractility. The internationally recognized research accomplishments of Professor Huang on key cell physiology mechanisms of the heart and skeletal muscle form the basis of very informative material concerning cardiac rhythm disturbances and some aspects of exercise physiology and aging. This textbook will serve as a valuable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, as well as both basic science and clinical faculty members in Life Sciences.' Wayne Giles, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Structural organization of the nervous system; 2. Resting and action potentials; 3. Background ionic homeostasis of excitable cells; 4. Membrane permeability changes during excitation; 5. Voltage-gated ion channels; 6. Cable theory and saltatory conduction; 7. Neuromuscular transmission; 8. Synaptic transmission in the nervous system; 9. The mechanism of contraction in skeletal muscle; 10. The activation of skeletal muscle; 11. Excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle; 12. Contractile function in skeletal muscle; 13. Cardiac muscle; 14. Ion channel function and cardiac arrhythmogenesis; 15. Smooth muscle; Further reading; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data as well as controversies and applications. With nearly eighty chapters by leading researchers from around the world, and combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth overview of the various evolutionary principles that influence all types of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach that draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and human psychology. It is an essential resource for both established researchers and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, and criminology, among other fields. Volume 1: Foundations of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology addresses foundational theories and methodological approaches.Table of ContentsPart I. Foundations of Evolution: 1. Natural selection Anna G. B. Sedlacek; 2. Sexual selection Mohammad Atari; 3. Inclusive fitness theory Carey J Fitzgerald and Brittany Lorentz; 4. Adaptive problems in the domain of human sexuality Kelly Asao; 5. Adaptations, Byproducts, and Spandrels Jaroslav Flegr; 6. Evolved psychological mechanisms: Properties and Evidence, Misconceptions and Mismatches Samuel Pearson and William von Hippel; Part II. Middle-level Theories: 7. Parental investment theory Farid Pazhoohi; 8. Parent-offspring conflict Catherine A. Salmon and Jessica A. Hehman; 9. Theory and evidence for reciprocal altruism Masanori Takano and Genki Ichinose; 10. Life history theory and mating strategies Aurelio José Figueredo and Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre; 11.Sperm competition theory Tara DeLecce; 12.Sexual conflict theory Ulrika Candolin; 13. Cross-species comparisons Martha Escobar, Francisco Arcediano, Zebulon K. Bell, and Jordyn Truax; 14. Cross-cultural methods in sexual psychology Marina L. Butovskaya; 15. Behavioral genetics Severi Luoto and Michael A. Woodley; 16. Sex differences and sex similarities Jessica L. Engelbrecht and John E. Edlund; 17. Individual differences in sexual psychology Aurelio José Figueredo and Catherine A. Salmon; 18. Experimental methods in sexual psychology Carey J. Fitzgerald and Jody A. Thompson; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data as well as controversies and applications. With nearly eighty chapters by leading researchers from around the world, and combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth overview of the various evolutionary principles that influence all types of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach that draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and human psychology. It is an essential resource for both established researchers and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, and criminology, among other fields. Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions addresses controversies and unresolved issues; applications to health, law, and pornography; and non-human primate evolved sexual psychology.Table of ContentsPart I. Controversies and unresolved issues: 1. The female sexual orientation spectrum in evolutionary perspective Scott W. Semenyna, Paul Vasey, and P. Lynne Honey; 2. The evolution of female same-sex attraction Menelaos Apostolou; 3. Male bisexuality Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Andreone Teles Medrado, and Marco Antonio Correa Varella; 4. Female bisexuality Severi Luoto and Markus J. Rantala; 5. Masturbation in primates Volker Sommer, Ruth Thomsen, and Matilda Brindle; Part II. Applications to health, law, and pornography; 6. Male reproductive health Peter B. Gray and Alex Straftis; 7. Women's menstrual cycles and ovulation provide balanced estradiol and progesterone for fertility and lifelong health Jerilynn C. Prior; 8. Female genital cutting Janet Howard; 9. Costs of polygyny Rose McDermott; 10. Male sexual disorders Klára Bártová and Kateřina Klapilová; 11. An evolutionary perspective on female sexual concerns and dysfunctions Marianne Brandon and Jacqueline M. Di Santo; 12. Evolutionary perspectives on male sexual offending Tony Ward, Russil Durrant, and Harry Dent; 13. Pornography and male sexual psychology Klára Bártová and Lucie Krejčová; Part III. Non-human primate sexual behavior: 14. Chimpanzee sexual behavior Maria Botero; 15. Bonobo sexual behavior and psychology Zanna Clay, Liza Moscovice, and Thibaud Gruber; 16. Orangutan sexual behavior Carel P. van Schaik, Julia A. Kunz, and Maria A. van Noordwijk; 17. Gibbon evolved sexual psychology Thad Q. Bartlett and Alexandra C. Sheldon; 18. Sexual behavior in Marmosets in the context of cooperative breeding Jeffrey A. French and Aaryn C. Mustoe; 19. Capuchin sexual behavior Joseph H. Manson; 20. Sexual behaviour in Neanderthals Emma Nelson, Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Anna Maria Kubicka, and April Nowell; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinking perspective on clinical science. It reviews modern research practices in clinical psychology that support the goals of psychological science, study designs that promote good research, and quantitative methods that can test specific scientific questions. It covers new themes in research including intensive longitudinal designs, neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and advanced computational methods such as machine learning. Core chapters examine significant statistical topics, for example missing data, causality, meta-analysis, latent variable analysis, and dyadic data analysis. A balanced overview of observational and experimental designs is also supplied, including preclinical research and intervention science. This is a foundational resource that supports the methodological training of the current and future generations of clinicTrade Review'The editors have produced an indispensable tome. For the first time, the various methods and approaches used by clinical psychology researchers have been brought together. This book represents a watershed moment in the development of clinical psychology as a scientific discipline and belongs on the bookshelves of all clinical psychologists.' Robert F. Krueger, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota'This handbook provides a much-needed primer on a range of methods important for clinical science. It would be an excellent addition to a graduate introductory course on methods in clinical science or a very useful resource for more advanced researchers wanting to learn about new approaches and methods in the field.' Deanna M. Barch, Chair and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University, St Louis'Assembled by two highly respected clinical scientists, this handbook is current, comprehensive, and sophisticated. Researchers across a wide spectrum of experience will find this volume invaluable to their work. Written by leading experts, the chapters discuss methodological and quantitative approaches to address clinical psychology's most pressing questions.' Josh Miller, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, University of Georgia'This comprehensive treatment of the cutting-edge methods and procedures used in the rapidly evolving field of clinical research should be a go-to resource for anyone interested in the state-of-the-art in the discipline of clinical psychology. Topics as diverse as latent variable models, molecular genetics, functional imaging, and the replication crisis all receive clear and detailed consideration.' Leslie C. Morey, George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsSection I. Clinical Psychological Science: An Evolving Field: 1. Trends in the evolving discipline of clinical psychology; 2. Defining and refining phenotypes: operational definitions as open concepts; 3. Building models of psychopathology spanning multiple modalities of measurements; Section II. Observational Approaches: 4. The conceptual foundations of descriptive psychopathology; 5. Survey and interview methods; 6. Psychometrics in clinical psychology research; 7. Latent variable models in clinical psychology; 8. Psychiatric epidemiology methods; Section III. Experimental and Biological Approaches: 9. Conceptual foundations of experimental psychopathology: historical context, scientific posture, and reflections on substantive and method matters; 10. A practical guide for designing and conducting cognitive studies in child psychopathology; 11. Peripheral psychophysiology; 12. Behavioral and molecular genetics; 13. Concepts and principles of clinical functional magnetic resonance imaging; 14. Reinforcement learning approaches to computational clinical neuroscience; Section IV. Developmental Psychopathology and Longitudinal Methods: 15. Studying psychopathology in early life: foundations of developmental psychopathology; 16. Adolescence and puberty: understanding the emergency of psychopathology; 17. Quantitative genetics research strategies for studying gene-environment interplay in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology; 18. Designing and managing longitudinal studies; 19. Measurement and comorbidity models for longitudinal data; Section V. Intervention Approaches: 20. The multiphase optimization strategy for developing and evaluating behavioral interventions; 21. Future directions in developing and evaluating psychological interventions; 22. Health psychology and behavioral medicine: methodological issues in the study of psychosocial influences on disease; Section VI. Intensive Longitudinal Designs: 23. Ambulatory assessment; 24. Modeling intensive longitudinal data; 25. Modeling the individual: bridging nomothetic and idiographic levels of analysis; 26. Social processes and dyadic designs; 27. Models for dyadic data; Section VII. General Analytic Considerations: 28. Reproducibility in clinical psychology; 29. Meta-analysis: integration of empirical findings through quantitative modeling; 30. Mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: regression-based approaches for clinical research; 31. Statistical inference for causal effects in clinical psychology: fundamental concepts and analytical approaches; 32. Analyzing nested data: multilevel modeling and alternative approaches; 33. Missing data analyses; 34. Machine learning for clinical psychology and clinical neuroscience.

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Book SynopsisThe transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook''s goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading experts to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of evolution-oriented and influenced fields. While evolutionary psychology remains at the core of the collection, it also covers the history, current standing, debates, and future directions of the panoply of fields entering the Darwinian fold. As such, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior is a valuable reference not just for evolutionary psychologists but also for scholars and students from many fields who wish to see how the evolutionary perspective Trade Review'This book is a state-of-the-art compendium for understanding human nature. Chapters range from traditional Darwinian concerns about topics like mating and morality through to contemporary issues such as psychopathology and the impacts of social media. This handbook is as appealing for students as it is for professional scholars.' Richard Wrangham, Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, and author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Comparative Approach: 1. Human-grey parrot comparisons in cognitive performance; 2. Cognitive abilities in elephants; 3. Culture and communication among cetaceans; Part II. Sociocultural Anthropology and Evolution: 4. Eusociality in humans; 5. The nature and psychological foundation of social universals; 6. The study of culture and evolution across disciplines; Part III. Evolution and Neuroscience: 7. Are evolutionary psychology and the neuroscience of motivation compatible?; 8. Are we designed to be happy? The neuroscience of making sense of pleasure; 9. Environmental pressures on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: an evolutionary development mechanism influencing atypical neurodevelopment in autism?; Part IV. Group Living – The Evolution of Social and Moral Behavior: 10. The problem of altruism and future directions; 11. Can evolutionary processes explain the origins of morality?; 12. The evolution and function of third-party moral judgment; 13. Evolution of the human family; 14. The parasite-stress theory of cultural values and sociality; 15. The evolution of pride and shame; 16. Thinking outside the head: cognitive ecologies and evolutionary psychology; Part V. Evolution and Cognition: 17. Runaway processes in modern human culture: an evolutionary approach to exaggerated communication in present human societies; 18. Ontogeny of tactical deception; 19. The evolution of language: a Darwinian approach; 20. The adaptive problem of exploiting resources: human foraging behavior in patchy environments; Part VI. Evolution and Development: 21. Evolutionary developmental psychology: developing adaptations in infancy and childhood; 22. The ontogeny and evolution of cooperation; 23. Genomic imprinting is critical for understanding the development and adaptive design of psychological mechanisms in humans and other animals; 24. Evolutionary explanations for bullying behavior; 25. Birth order and evolutionary psychology; Part VII. Sexual Selection and Human Sex Differences: 26. Survival, selection, and sex differences in fear; 27. The enigmatic urge: how sexual desire works; 28. Are humans peacocks or robins?; 29. Human mate selection: a multidimensional approach; 30. Kin selection and the evolution of male androphilia; 31. Evolutionary psychology: thoughts on integrating feminist perspectives; Part VIII. Abnormal Behavior and Evolutionary Psychopathology: 32. Psychopathology from an evolutionary perspective; 33. Are we on the verge of Darwinian psychiatry?; 34. The evolution of prosocial behavior: from caring to compassion; 35. Disordered social cognition: alexithymia and interoception; Part IX. Applying Evolutionary Principles: 36. A bridge too far? Evolutionary psychology and the solutions of social problems; 37. The evolution of personality; 38. Applying evolutionary principles to criminality; 39. Substitute parenting; 40. Historians and the evolutionary approach to human behavior; 41. The psychology of extraterrestrials: the new frontier?; Part X. Evolution and the Media: 42. Daily talk shows as virtual gossip communities; 43. Supernormal stimuli in the media; 44. An evolutionary approach to horror media; 45. The internet is for porn: evolutionary perspectives on online pornography; Index.

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Book SynopsisYour brain is shrinking. Does it matter?How Much Brain Do We Really Need? challenges us to think differently about the brain. Rather than just concentrating on the many wonderful things it can do, this entertaining insight into the complexities and contradictions of the human brain asks whether in fact we can live satisfactorily without some of it.The bad news is that our brains start to shrink from our mid-thirties. But the good news is that we still seem to generally muddle along and our brain is able to adapt in extraordinary ways when things going wrong.Alexis Willett and Jennifer Barnett shed light on what the human brain can do - in both optimal and suboptimal conditions - and consider what it can manage without. Through fascinating facts and figures, case studies and hypothetical scenarios, expert interviews and scientific principles, they take us on a journey from the ancient mists of time to the far reaches of the future, via different

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Book SynopsisEveryone who dies by suicide has thought about suicide prior to their action. Suicidal ideation is, therefore, one of the most important risk factors for suicide. This book explores and illustrates current research on this risk factor. There are reviews of selected aspects of suicidal ideation. Karolina Krysinska and David Lester review research on whether religiosity is a protective factor for suicidal ideation, while John Gunn reviews whether bullying is a risk factor. Cathy Pederson reviews research on suicidal ideation in the chronically ill. Three research studies are presented: Mahboubeh Dadfar on mattering as a protective factor in Iranian psychiatric patients, Jenny Huen and her colleagues on correlations of suicidal ideation in Chinese students, and Steven Stack on suicidal ideation in men who have been raped. The content of suicidal ideation is discussed by James Overholser and his colleagues, and Jennifer Laffier presents examples of suicidal communications in social media. Finally, Frank Bailey presents two case studies of individuals in which their suicidal ideation is presented in the context of their life histories. The chapters illustrate the importance and the complexity of suicidal ideation and its role in leading to suicidal actions.Table of ContentsPrefaceRape and Suicide among MenReligiosity and Suicidal Ideation"But Words Can Never Hurt Me": Examining the Role of Peer Victimization in the Development of Suicidal ThoughtsMattering and Suicidal IdeationUnderstanding Suicidal Ideation in Chinese Undergraduate StudentsUnderstanding Suicidal Ideation in People with Chronic Invisible Illness"My Life Is Falling Apart, and Things Will Never Get Any Better": The Content and Process of Suicidal IdeationThemes of Suicide Ideation by Youth in Their Virtual WorldsMad Dog and Songbird: The (G) FactorIndex.

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Book SynopsisThere has been a paradigm shift in the understanding of the role of the cerebellum in the nervous system, which is now suggested to be an integral component of the distributed neural circuitry, subserving even higher order functions, traditionally linked to the integrity of cerebral cortex. One of these functions is reading, which is one of the most prominent learned competencies in humans. The pathophysiology of dyslexia is largely unknown. It is usually related to brain cortical alteration. Recent evidence suggests dyslexia may involve binocular instability or alterations of accommodation. This book describes the possible role of the cerebellum in reading tasks, either considering its emergent role in mentation, either considering its traditional role in motor control. It examines the possible involvement of cerebellum in reading, which may be caused by an alteration of the diffuse projections which connect the cerebellum to different cortical areas via subcortical structures, by its involvement in spatial perception, in timing processing of cortical flow of information, and by a possible intrinsic property of the structure in cognition.

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Book SynopsisCalcium signalling is an astonishing example how a simple caption can trigger and regulate an enormous variety of cellular and physiological responses. Ca2+-signalling routes very often involve Ca2+-binding proteins that sense changes in intracellular [Ca2+] and trigger cellular responses by regulating specific targets. One fascinating group among these Ca2+-sensors are the neuronal calcium sensor (NCS) proteins, named for their localisation in neuronal tissue (although there are reports of their expression in non-neuronal tissues as well). While recent excellent reviews have covered key aspects of this protein group, the field expanded in recent years making it more and more difficult to represent every facet of this ongoing research endeavour. This book is intended to represent properties of NCS proteins.

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Book SynopsisHandedness is an attribute of humans defined by their unequal distribution of fine motor skill between the left and right hands. A minority of people are equally skilled with both hands, and are termed ambidextrous. This book presents current research in the study of handedness, including the significance of knot-tying habits in handedness research and forensic science; manual laterality and hemispheric specialisation for language; handedness and mental rotation; handedness and achievement in sports and handedness of children determines preferential facial and eye movements.

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