Neuroscience Books
Neuroscience, Psychotherapy and Clinical Pragmatism
This volume explores how conceptions of pragmatism set forth in American philosophy serve as orienting perspectives in psychotherapy. Drawing on the influential contributions of William James and... (more)
Brain Imaging: What it Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness
Magnetic resonance imaging methods have taken a commanding position in brain studies because they allow scientists to follow brain activities in the living human. The ability to measure cerebral... (more)
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist and author of In Search of Memory documents the work of five leading minds including Sigmund Freud and Gustave Klimt in 1900 Vienna, revealing how their critical... (more)
Headaches and Brain Injury from a Biopsychosocial Perspective: A Practical Psychotherapy Guide
Post-traumatic headache is the most common symptom after mild/moderate brain injury. Similar to the characteristics of naturally occurring headaches, it is multi-faceted in nature and includes... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome: The New Evidence Base for Diagnosis and Treatment
This is the first neuropsychology book to translate exciting findings from the recent explosion of research on sport-related concussion to the broader context of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)... (more)
The Design and Analysis of Experiments in Neuroscience
Intended to meet the needs of a student who wishes to begin research in the field of neuroscience or biological psychology, this book provides background to the scientific method, and the use of both... (more)
Discoveries in the Human Brain: Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure and Function
This illustrated chronicle of discoveries about the brain aims to cover the historical sweep of neuroscience from the second millennium BC to the late 20th century. This engaging and engrossing... (more)
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)
Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind - Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry
In the history of American neuroscience, Roger Sperry and his contribution are outstanding. In this book, over twenty of his students, research colleagues and scientific friends, themselves all... (more)
Synesthesia - Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience:
The research presented in this volume demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not synaesthesia is real. The book questions how synaesthesia should be accounted for from... (more)
Mind: A Brief Introduction
"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In 'Mind', Searle dismantles... (more)
How the Body Shapes the Mind:
'How the Body Shapes the Mind' offers an examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. Shaun Gallagher uses the concepts of body image and... (more)
Consciousness Explained:
Revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that tautology and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and... (more)
Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, Measurement, and Theoretical Issues
Expanding the definition of dissociation in psychiatry, Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis presents a summary of the somatoform components of dissociation - how sensory and motor functions are affected by... (more)
Classic Cases in Neuropsychology:
Brings together in one volume further important case investigations that have shaped the way we think about the relationships between brain, behaviour and cognition. (more)
Origins of Neuroscience:
This volume traces the history of ideas about the functioning of the brain, from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the centuries into modern times. It emphasizes... (more)
Behavior and Mood Disorders in Focal Brain Lesions:
This is the first clinical reference work to address the relationship of focal brain dysfunction to disorders of mood. (more)
Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions
A comprehensive book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches. (more)
The Quest for Consciousness:
Consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. Written as an introduction to the field and drawing upon clinical, psychological and physiological observations, this book seeks to answer... (more)
An odyssey through the brain, behavior and the mind:
Vanderwolf presents a radical perspective on the functioning of the brain, demonstrating that the large scale features of brain electrical activity are related to sensory and motor processes in... (more)
Developmental Science:
Details the new, cross-disciplinary synthesis, as formulated by the Carolina Consortium on Human Development. (more)
The Brain-Shaped Mind: What the Brain Can Tell Us About the Mind
Neural networks are used to explore how the brain's structure influences the mind. (more)
Surprise, Uncertainty and Mental Structures
When we are startled by the new, confronted with discrepancies, our knowing gives way to uncertainty. This text challenges scientific commonplaces about mental processes, pointing to the significant... (more)
Words and rules: The ingredients of language
This text answers many questions about the amazing human ability called language. It explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, including the... (more)
Comparative neuropsychology:
This collection of essays take as their starting point the assumption that the human brain shares many of its most important functional systems with its primate relatives. The authors take a... (more)
Exploring the history of neuropsychology: Selected papers
These papers trace the evolution of thought and practice in neuropsychology and behavioural neurology. The author captures the setting in which observations and discoveries were made and shows how... (more)