Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with the...

The Highly Sensitive Brain is the first handbook to cover the science, measurement, and clinical discussion of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a trait associated with enhanced responsivity, awareness, depth-of-processing and attunement to the...

Making Sense of the Senses provides an easily understandable and engaging overview of the senses. The book allows readers insights into how humans and other animals perceive the world, reflecting a level of knowledge similar to that acquired by studying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636495491Author Barbara MangoFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher Atmosphere PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a...

Understanding how the brain is organized and visualizing its pathways and connections can be conceptually challenging. The Atlas of Functional Neuroanatomy, Third Edition addresses this challenge by presenting a clear visual guide to the human central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043755Author Jack PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120537Author Joshua FoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social...

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545204Author Fergus CraikFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would...

A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function"Make[s] us realize that what goes on in our minds is nothing short of magical." -Yasemin Saplakoglu,...

The Neurobiology of Brain and Behavioral Development provides an overview of the process of brain development, including recent discoveries on how the brain develops. This book collates and integrates these findings, weaving the latest information with...

This textbook offers a concise introduction to the exciting field of developmental neuroscience, a discipline concerned with the mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic growth. Bridging the divide between basic and clinical...

A Primer with MATLAB (R) and Python (TM) present important information on the emergence of the use of Python, a more general purpose option to MATLAB, the preferred computation language for scientific computing and analysis in neuroscience. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047364Author A. David RedishFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525433446Author David EaglemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536608Author Linda A. ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949691Author David EaglemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306835285Author Professor David NuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hachette GoPublisher Hachette GoWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Animals often exhibit intriguing and captivating patterns of behavior, from migration and homing, to communication. But how is this behavior controlled? Behavioral Neurobiology introduces undergraduate students and other readers to the fascinating field...

Barbara Maria Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a...

A leading neuroscientist argues that the peripheral nervous system, long understood to play a key role in regulating basic bodily functions, also signals the onset of illness.The central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord, has...

Clinical Neuropsychology is an up-to-the minute overview of the major and many interesting minor disorders and behavioral syndromes caused by localized brain damage or abnormal brain functioning. The text combines clinical findings with studies on...

Why is deciding to do something sometimes so slow and difficult? How do we make decisions when lacking key information? When making decisions, the higher areas of the brain deliberately suppress lower areas capable of generating much faster but...

Herbal Treatment of Anxiety: Clinical Studies in Western, Chinese and Ayurvedic Traditions explains the nature and types of anxiety, its neurobiology, the pathophysiology that exacerbates and perpetuates it, and the psychopharmacology of the chemical...

Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108498Author Alice RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm

Salience Network of the Human Brain focuses on the multiple sources of stimuli that compete for our attention, providing interesting discussions on how the relative salience-importance or prominence-of each of these inputs determines which ones we choose...

The development of the young brain after birth and the emergence of cognitive capacities, mind, and individuality rest on the maturation of a dense net of synaptic connections between neurons. Memory Makes the Brain describes the dramatic, competitive...

Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research spanning philosophy (of science, mind, and ethics) and current neuroscience. Containing chapters written by some of the most prominent...

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relationship between emotion,...

There is now enough basic work to sketch out the principal systems at all levels of the brain, from prefrontal cortex to lower brainstem, which are orchestrated to provide control of food selection, preference and consumption. At the same time, the...

Neuroscience has dramatically increased understanding of how mental states and processes are realized by the brain, thus opening doors for treating the multitude of ways in which minds become dysfunctional. This book explores questions such as when is it...

Introduction to Pain and its relation to Nervous System Disorders provides an accessible overview of the latest developments in the science underpinning pain research, including, but not limited to, the physiological, pathological and psychological...

An introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system that emphasizes the history of experiments and observations that led to modern neuroscientific knowledge. This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what...

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a "neural turn," in the form of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546676Author A. David RedishFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 152g