Neuroscience Books
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Argues that what is described as the self, or the essence of who a person is, reflects the interactions between the neurons and the synapses in the brain, allowing us to think, act, feel, believe,... (more)
Neuroscience: An Introduction
This engaging book will serve as an introductory text in neuroscience. It conveys important ideas in neuroscience without overburdening the student with unnecessary detail. Drawing from his 35 years... (more)
Textbook of Biological Psychiatry
This textbook integrates the basic science concerning brain mechanisms of psychiatric disorders alongside surveys of standard clinical treatment. Organized in a coherent and easy-to-follow structure,... (more)
Neuropsychological Assessment: Fifth Edition
Now in its Fifth Edition, Neuropsychological Assessment reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction and injury. This is the 35th anniversary of the landmark first... (more)
Cognitive Neuropsychology and Language Rehabilitation: A Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
This volume is mainly based upon contributions presented at a workshop on the relationships between cognitive neuropsychology and aphasia rehabilitation. (more)
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
New in paperback, this comprehensive text on the fundamental brain sources of human and animal feelings summarizes up-to-date information about the subcortical operating systems that organize the... (more)
The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
This book focuses on neuropsychiatric models of self-consciousness, set against introductory essays describing the philosophical, historical and psychological approaches. (more)
Consciousness
In this thought-provoking title, neurologist Adam Zeman offers an enlightening view of consciousness seen through the lenses of science and philosophy, enhancing his discussion with case studies of... (more)
Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends... (more)
Cross-cultural neuropsychological assessment: Theory and practice
To deal realistically with the problem of doing neuropsychological assessment without norms, the author of this book describes the principles of a "behavioural neuropsychology", and then sets out... (more)
The Body Remembers Casebook: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD
Each of the complex trauma cases in this volume is presented with a combination of methods ranging from traditional psychodynamic approaches and applications of attachment theory to innovative... (more)
Disorders of Brain and Mind Volume 2
In recent years there have been major advances in areas of clinical neuroscience including neurogenetics, neuroimaging and the scientific study of consciousness. Disorders of Brain and Mind II brings... (more)
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended... (more)
Brave new mind: A thoughtful inquiry into the nature and meaning of mental life
A historical and critical account of the development of the computational metaphor on the mind. According to this metaphor, the mind is viewed simply as an "outgrowth" or "emergent property" of the... (more)
Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged; existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the investigation of the mind. However in recent years, these two opposing... (more)
Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks
Connectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores their theoretical and philosophical implications. (more)
Case studies in neuropsychological rehabilitation:
After a discussion of late-1990s theory and research findings relating to rehabilitation of brain injury, this book presents 20 case studies of adults with severe brain injuries sustained several... (more)
Neurobiology
This updated text will continue to serve the needs of students in introductory neuroscience courses. Among topics highlighted in the 3rd edition are the superfamily of molecules responsible for... (more)
Mind and Nature: Essays on Time and Subject
This collection of essays extends the microgenetic theory of the mind/brain state to basic problems in process psychology and philosophy of mind. The authora s microtemporal model of brain activity... (more)
Cognitive Rehabilitation in Dementia:
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation provides an international forum for the publication of well designed and properly evaluated intervention strategies, survays, and observational procedures which are... (more)
Physiological Basis of Behaviour: Neural and Hormonal Processes
An introduction to the basic structures of the central nervous system, the techniques used in neuroscience and a short discussion of the affect of drugs on the brain. (more)
Clinical neuropsychology: Behavioral and brain science
This study of how normal and abnormal function of the brain affects human thought, emotion and behaviour focuses on the effects of localized brain damage and of specific brain disorders. The text... (more)
Cognitive neuroscience: A reader
This work offers a collection of readings in the area of cognitive neuroscience. The author has brought together papers ranging from the earliest articles discussing brain plasticity through to... (more)
Altered egos: how the brain creates the self
It may be the deepest mystery of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience: how does the brain unite to create the self, the subjective "I"? In this work, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents his theory of the... (more)
Mind, Brain, and Schizophrenia
The author of this accessible, well-written book argues that it is time to set aside the search for a single cause of schizophrenia and focus on the disease's final common pathway. He highlights... (more)
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to... (more)
Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness
Here, the authors present recent thinking about the development and regulation of emotions, and argue that several common but difficult-to-treat psychiatric illnesses, including drug addictions, are... (more)
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Much of our emotional life is lived unconsciously and is far richer than our conscious feelings, for example, our unconscious mind will already be reacting to situations of danger some time before we... (more)