Neuroscience Books
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming
This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates... (more)
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can-and likely will-enable us to... (more)
Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness
Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy.
Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in the brain. However, the gap between... (more)
Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy
Enabling patients’ minds to change the structure of their brains.
Integrating groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development and therapeutic change, this book details a novel... (more)
Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are
Discussing the outsized role that fear, anxiety and other distressing emotions play in forming fundamental aspects of who we are.
Adverse experiences inevitably happen during development and... (more)
The Reality of Brain Injury: Am I Still Me?
A respected medical professional, family man, and keen athlete, Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted... (more)
A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience: Seventh Edition
An essential reference work for any student studying psychology for the first time, A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience: Seventh Edition provides over 2,500 definitions of complex... (more)
Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury: A search for hope and optimism after maxillofacial and neurosurgery
Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury tells the remarkable story of Stijn Geerinck and his journey from road traffic accident to recovery. After he was hit by a drunk driver whilst cycling,... (more)
Life after my mother's stroke: A teenage take on how to cope
Tashi Hansen du Toit was 15 years old when her mother Karen suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke which left her with multiple physical and cognitive impairments. This beautifully written and poignant... (more)
Embracing Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding Eden
This important book provides a firsthand account of a university professor who experienced traumatic brain injury. It tells the story of Michael Arthur, who had recently accepted a position as vice... (more)
The Invisible Classroom: Relationships, Neuroscience & Mindfulness in School
How is expanding students' strengths more effective than improving their weaknesses? Why is creating a school where staff and students feel safe necessary for learning? How can anchoring with simple... (more)
The Biological Basis of Mental Health
This book explores the underlying biology and neuroscience associated with mental health and wellbeing.
This fully revised fourth edition includes new chapters on behavioural science, and... (more)
Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction
This carefully designed, multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience. With accessible language, a uniform structure, and many... (more)
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia, an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind: A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function
This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological... (more)
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis builds a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines-psychoanalysis and neuroscience-by examining the Self and its dynamics at the psychological and... (more)
Social Cognition and the Second Person in Human Interaction
This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the second person in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions... (more)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury discusses how acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be integrated into existing approaches to neuropsychological rehabilitation and therapy... (more)
Sleep and Brain Injury
This ground-breaking book binds together a contemporary understanding of sleep and brain injury, pairing empirical understanding through clinical practice with extensive up-to-date research, to... (more)
Cognitive Psychology: The Basics
Cognitive Psychology: The Basics provides a compact introduction to the core topics in the field, discussing the science behind the everyday cognitive phenomena experienced by us all. The book... (more)
Assessment and Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Young Children: A Practical Guide
This essential guide is a research-based practical handbook for assessing global developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders in young children. It explains diagnostic, support, and... (more)
The Clinical Neuroscience of Lateralization
The Clinical Neuroscience of Lateralization gives the first comprehensive transdiagnostic overview of the evidence for changes in hemispheric asymmetries in different psychiatric and... (more)
Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice
Therapists must rely on their clients' reporting of experience in order to assess, treat and offer help. Yet we all experience the world through various filters of one sort or another, and our... (more)
Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 2011, demand for information about this innovative perspective has been constant. Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings... (more)
Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches, Consultants and Leaders
Conversational effectiveness is a barometer of human thriving and facilitating insightful conversations is a powerful method for accelerating psychological change and collaboration. This... (more)
Affective Neuroscience in Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Emotions
Most psychological disorders involve distressful emotions, yet emotions are often regarded as secondary in the etiology and treatment of psychopathology. This book offers an alternative model of... (more)
Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited
In the past few decades, we have accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge regarding the neural basis of the mind. One of the most important sources of this knowledge has been the in-depth study... (more)
The Sibling Relationship After Acquired Brain Injury: Family Dynamics Across the Lifespan
This important book gives a voice to the lived experience of siblings and family members when one sibling has an acquired brain injury (ABI). ABI is associated with a range of physical, cognitive,... (more)
Surviving Brain Damage After Assault: From Vegetative State to Meaningful Life
At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of... (more)
Interpersonal Neurobiology and Clinical Practice
Books in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology have collectively sold close to one million copies and contributed to a revolution in cutting-edge mental health care. An interpersonal... (more)