Neuroscience Books
The 6th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress: Dreams and Psychosis, Rio de Janeiro, July 2005 - DVD (NTSC Format)
The DVDs come in four sets, containing two disks each, covering both the Educational Day and the main Congress. SET 1 (Educational Day, 2 disks): - Physiology of Sleep and Dreaming: Oliver Turnbull... (more)
The 6th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress: Dreams and Psychosis, Rio de Janeiro, July 2005 - DVD (PAL Format)
The DVDs come in four sets, containing two disks each, covering both the Educational Day and the main Congress. SET 1 (Educational Day, 2 disks): - Physiology of Sleep and Dreaming: Oliver Turnbull... (more)
Learning With the Brain in Mind
Offers a fresh approach to teaching, exploring recent findings in neuroscience and combining them with learning in three crucial and interconnected ways: Attention, Emotions and Memory. Attention is... (more)
The Developing Brain: Birth to Age Eight
How can early childhood teachers, administrators, and parents translate discoveries on early brain development into strategies that nurture cognitive growth? Combining information from neuroscience... (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)
The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses
As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many... (more)
Understanding Somatization in the Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology
Written for neuropsychologists wishing to improve their ability to diagnose and treat, or recommend treatment for, patients with somatoform disorders. The author, a seasoned clinician, blends... (more)
How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?
"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe? We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that.... (more)
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
Linking the science of interpersonal neurobiology to the art of therapy, this book translates advances in neuroscience into clinical applications for the practitioner. It argues for scientifically... (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)
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Forced learning, or 'hot-housing', of infants has become increasingly popular in recent years - but does it work? The plasticity of the adolescent and adult brain is becoming gradually acknowledged... (more)
Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research
This book aims to present a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freuds dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about childrens dreams. It... (more)
The Interwoven Sources of Dreams
The subject of this book is the study of dreaming from a specific point of view, one that provides useful and enlightening results: the analysis of the complex patterns of links among the memory... (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)
Psychotherapy for Neuropsychological Challenges
Amidst increasing awareness among clinicians of the impact that psychological factors and treatment of those factors have upon the progress of neurological disease, "Psychotherapy for... (more)
Neuroscience of Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain
Academic psychologists in every subfield are going through what Charles Nelson calls "the brain craze." As technology has made imaging of the brain relatively easy, noninvasive, and inexpensive,... (more)
Relational Processes and DSM-V: Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment
Seeking to integrate the large volume of clinical research on relational processes and mental health disorders with other scientific advances in psychiatry, "Relational Processes and DSM-V" builds on... (more)
The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love
The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors basic question is: How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the... (more)
Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnosis tells us about a basic human capacity for altered... (more)
Emotion Explained
Emotion continues to be a topic of enormous scientific interest. "Emotion Explained" describes the nature, functions, and brain mechanisms that underlie both emotion and motivation. However it goes... (more)
Brain, Attachment, Personality: An Introduction to Neuroaffective Development
This book is intended as an inspiration and as an introduction to what Susan Hart has called neuroaffective developmental psychology. As an underlying theme throughout the book, she seeks to... (more)
Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
Inside your head there is an amazing labor saving device; more effective than the latest high-tech computer. Your brain frees you from the everyday tasks of moving about in the world around you,... (more)
Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis
This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ("knowing how") and explicit memory ("knowing that") are connected with each other... (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)
Dreams, 1900-2000: Science, Art and the Unconscious Mind
When Sigmund Freud published "The Interpretation of Dreams" in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for thousands of years. At the same time he opened a... (more)
Beyond Happiness: Deepening the Dialogue between Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences
Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness. For a greater part of the twentieth century, psychology and... (more)
Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science
Presenting a collection of essays, this book address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. It explores questions like: what can knowledge about the neurological... (more)
Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes: Second Edition
This new edition of "Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes" has been thoroughly updated and revised to provide an authoritative overview of the subject, including new chapters on the neurodevelopmental... (more)
The New Unconscious
Over the past two decades, a new picture of the cognitive unconscious has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. According to this picture, unconscious... (more)
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individality
The author of the controversial "The Nurture Assumption" tackles the biggest mystery of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behaviour? The search leads Judith Rich Harris... (more)