Category Archives: Neuropsychology

Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings

Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Can the function of just one small group of chemicals really determine whether you are happy or sad? Does marijuana help to improve your memory in old age? Is it really best to drink … Continue reading

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Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping (Bradford Books)

The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. Brain imaging research has been the source of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive science over the last decade, but recent critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, … Continue reading

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The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres

Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of perception and cognitive processing. The different functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain have been studied with renewed interest in recent years, as scholars explore applications to new … Continue reading

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind: A Tribute to Michael S. Gazzaniga

These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its existence and reflect the many groundbreaking scientific contributions and enduring influence of Michael Gazzaniga, “the godfather … Continue reading

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International Handbook of Anger: Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes

Book covers a broader range of topics than other books in this area. Notably, extensive coverage of the neurobiology of anger in context of psychology and sociology is unique. Book provides broad, integrative coverage while avoiding unnecessary duplication. Contributors have … Continue reading

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Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory, and Executive Control (The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality)

As cognitive models of behavior continue to evolve, the mechanics of cognitive exceptionality, with its range of individual variations in abilities and performance, remains a challenge to psychology. Reaching beyond the standard view of exceptional cognition equaling superior intelligence, the … Continue reading

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Handbook of Forensic Neuropsychology, Second Edition

“This book brings together excellent contributions spanning the historic basis of neuropsychology in forensic practice, ethical and legal issues, and practical instruction….The editors have done an outstanding job in providing us with a volume that represents state-of-the-art in forensic neuropsychology. … Continue reading

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Behavioral Neurobiology of Anxiety and Its Treatment (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences)

The book aims to cover a broad range of topics related to anxiety disorders, including symptomatology, etiology, epidemiology, diagnostic features, comorbidity, clinical neuroscience, genetics, neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, neurochemistry, animal models, translational science, functional neuroimaging, and preclinical and clinical psychopharmacology. The book … Continue reading

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The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

Do antidepressants work? Of course?everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the … Continue reading

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Principles and Practice of Lifespan Developmental Neuropsychology (Cambridge Medicine)

Lifespan developmental neuropsychology is the study of the systematic behavioral, cognitive, and psychosocial changes and growth that occur across infancy, adolescence, adulthood and later life. This book provides insight into how brain-behavior relationships change over time, how disorders differ in … Continue reading

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