Neuroscience Books
Introduction to Neuropsychotherapy: Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Patients Throughout the Lifespan
This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining neuropsychological... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis Vol.15 No.2
An Interdisciplinary journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences. This journal is also available electronically: http://karnacbooks.metapress.com (more)
Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
Psychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical... (more)
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process
Might it be possible that neuroscience, in particular interpersonal neurobiology, can illuminate the unique ways that group processes collaborate with and enhance the brain’s natural developmental... (more)
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
The human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: From Basic Science to Clinical Management
A cutting-edge synthesis of science and practice, this book covers everything from sports-related concussions to less common types of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and related complications.... (more)
The Business of Neuropsychology
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of basic business principles and how they can be used to enhance the stability and fiscal responsibility of neuropsychological practice. The... (more)
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
Explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? Antonio... (more)
Neuroscience-Based Cognitive Therapy: New Methods for Assessment Treatment and Self-Regulation
Neuroscience is the most powerful emerging force in the contemporary landscape of psychotherapy. In Neuroscience–based Cognitive Therapy, Tullio Scrimali explores recent advances in neuroscience,... (more)
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry
Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as those conditions that have significant... (more)
The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the... (more)
Brain-Based Parenting: How Neuroscience Can Foster Healthier Relationships with Kids
In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through... (more)
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind
Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common framework where each of these important perspectives can be honored and... (more)
Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response
A systematic look at the role of "gut feelings" in psychotherapy.
What actually happens in psychotherapy, outside the confines of therapeutic models and techniques? How can clinicians learn to... (more)
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino... (more)
How To Think Like a Neandertal
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals - some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or... (more)
The Evolved Structure of Human Social Behaviour and Personality: Psychoanalytic Insights
The book reviews psychoanalytic theory with the aim of developing a evolutionarily feasible model of social behaviour and personality that can help to bridge the gap between psychoanalysis and... (more)
Ethical Practice in Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Ethical Practice in Brain Injury Rehabilitation helps rehabilitation professionals deal effectively with the difficult ethical dilemmas that regularly face them in their daily clinical practice. The... (more)
Narrative Approaches to Brain Injury
This book brings together narrative approaches and brain injury rehabilitation, in a manner that fosters an understanding of the natural fit between the two. We live our lives by narratives and... (more)
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter "J" as shimmering magenta or the number "5" as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery... (more)
Cognitive Neuroscience: Special Issue: Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness
How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now,... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice: Brain, Self and Objects
Is the Ego nothing but our brain? Are our mental and psychological states nothing but neuronal states of our brain? Though Sigmund Freud rejected a neuroscientific foundation for psychoanalysis,... (more)
The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-patient Relationship
Due to advances within neuroscience, we are now in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient relationship. Using this... (more)
Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind
The field of social cognitive neuroscience has captured the attention of many researchers during the past ten years. Much of the impetus for this new field came from the development of functional... (more)
Psychotherapy for Neuropsychological Challenges
This book is a unique and timely addition to the literature for it provides approaches for dealing with the cognitive and emotional consequences of common neurological diseases. There is growing... (more)
Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation
Brain plasticity is the focus of a growing body of research with significant implications for neurorehabilitation. This state-of-the-art volume explores ways in which brain-injured individuals may be... (more)
Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality
Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? In addressing this hard problem of consciousness, we face a central human challenge: what do we really know and how do we know it?... (more)
Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
A primer on brain functionality as it relates to therapeutic work.
This book presents an overview of the latest theories of affect regulation and focuses on how these theories work in clinical... (more)
The Brain-Savvy Therapists Workbook: A Companion to Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
Chock-full of exercises and strategies, this book will allow clients to deepen the key principles of interpersonal neurobiology that Bonnie Badenoch wrote about in her earlier book. Topics include... (more)
Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury: A Guide for Working Clinicians
The book aims to acknowledge the complexity of working with clients who have an acquired brain injury but also seeks to give the interested reader practical and useable guides to develop their... (more)