Neuroscience Books
How to Solve the Mind-body Problem
The mind is the brain. Each mental state - hope, fear and thought - can be identified with a particular physical state of the brain. Or so argues Nicholas Humphrey. In this book he offers support for... (more)
Origins: Brain and self organization
The result of the 2nd Appalachian conference on neurodynamics, this text focuses on the problem of "order", its origins, evolution and future. Central to this is our understanding of time. Both... (more)
The Invisible Brain Injury: Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies
The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident. Presenting... (more)
Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling
Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more... (more)
The Interbrain: How Unconscious Connections Influence Human Behaviour and Relationships
Digby Tantam presents his ground-breaking theory of the interbrain, the idea that human beings are endlessly connected by a continuous interplay of non-verbal communication of which we are unaware.... (more)
The Languages of the Brain
The only way we can convey our thoughts in detail to another person is through verbal language. Does this imply that our thoughts ultimately rely on words? Is there only one way in which thoughts can... (more)
Private Life of the Brain
Challenging many preconceived notions, Susan Greenfields groundbreaking book seeks to answer one of sciences most enduring mysteries: how our unique sense of self is created. (more)
Brain Bytes: Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and centre. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of... (more)
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams... (more)
Creative Psychotherapy: Applying the Principles of Neurobiology to Play and Expressive Arts-Based Practice
Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of... (more)
Neuropsychology: V.1
Neuropsychology: Science and Practice I - Review and Commentary is the first publication to provide a critical summary of the recent literature in the science and practice of clinical... (more)
Identity Unknown: How Acute Brain Disease Can Destroy Knowledge of Oneself and Others
Imagine being unable to recognise your spouse, your children, or even yourself when you look in the mirror, despite having good eyesight and being able to read well and name objects. This is a... (more)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Definitive Guide for Educators
Developmental deficits in learning and communication in young children are defined as neurodevelopmental disorders. This constellation, newly defined in the DSM-5, represents a range of issues that... (more)
Ego Damage and Repair: Toward a Psychodynamic Neurology
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of... (more)
Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy - Volume 2, Issues 1 & 2: A Forum for the Practice and Development of Psychological Therapies for Neurological Conditions
Special Double Issue: Accepting, Soothing, and Stilling Cluttered and Critical Minds in Neurological Conditions: Therapeutic Approaches Influenced by Eastern Traditions.
Providing emotional... (more)
Minding the Social Brain
A generation of social neuroscientists uses acronyms to identify the structural neural networks revealed in the NIH Human Connectome Project. They know that a medial brain hub of nodal networks, the... (more)
Memory and Healing: Neurocognitive and Psychodynamic Perspectives on How Patients and Psychotherapists Remember
This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulations for what has long been missing in how... (more)
Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy: Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan
This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological... (more)
The Business of Neuropsychology
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of basic business principles and how they can be used to enhance the stability and fiscal responsibility of neuropsychological practice. The... (more)
Cognitive Neuroscience: Special Issue: Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness
How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now,... (more)
The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-patient Relationship
Due to advances within neuroscience, we are now in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient relationship. Using this... (more)
Methods in Social Neuroscience
Straightforward and practical, this is the first book to provide detailed guidance for using neurobiological methods in the study of human social behavior, personality, and affect. Each chapter... (more)
What Color Is Your Brain? A Fun and Fascinating Approach to Understanding Yourself and Others
Why do you zig while others zag? What makes you seem unique or peculiar to some people, yet similar or comforting to others? The differences are in our personalities and how they shade our perception... (more)
Introducing Neuropsychology: Second Edition
Investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems and human behaviour. The material is presented in a jargon-free, easy to understand manner and aims to... (more)
Milestones in the History of Aphasia: Theories and Protagonists
Surveys the history of aphasia from its earliest mentions in ancient times to the turn of the new millennium in 2000. This book takes a predominantly chronological approach starting with an... (more)
Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems
Offers a contemporary perspective on the mind through a compilation of original chapters written by some of the leading researchers in the area of complexity theory. In each of the chapters, the... (more)
International Handbook of Cross-cultural Neuropsychology
Emphasizes major distinctions among cultural groups in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia to provide awareness of nuances, as well as culturally-influenced differences and... (more)