Neuroscience Books
The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality
Confabulations are memories of events and experiences that have never actually happened. Such false memories have fascinated scientists for over a century, and in recent years been the subject of... (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)
Ethical Decision-making in Clinical Neuropsychology
This is an up-to-date guide to ethical decision-making in the daily practice of clinical neuropsychology. Emphasising positive ethics, the book provides a model of a decision-making process by which... (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)
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in... (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)
Principles of Neural Science: Fifth Edition
Focuses on the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental... (more)
Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious
This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis. Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some... (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)
Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms
The aim of Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of... (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)
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)
Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
Burgeoning advances in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness - the very centre of human concern - by... (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)
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body
While the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. This book redresses the balance, drawing on a range of sources,... (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)
The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment
An overview of the neurobiology behind addictions. A leading addictions specialist presents information about the neurobiology of drug and alcohol addictions and how individuals with addictions... (more)