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  • Intoxicating Minds

    How Drugs Work

    de Ciaran Regan ...
    Series series Maps of the Mind
    Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Intoxication and Society

    Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol

    Edición de Professor Jonathan Herring, Ciaran Regan, Darin Weinberg, Philip Withington ...
    Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of social regulation and personal responsibility on the other, they also illuminate the daily paradoxes, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • Rest

    Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

    de Alex Soojung-Kim Pang ...
    An updated edition for the classic book on escaping the drudgery of overwork and finding excellence and happiness--by doing lessOverwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

    de Lauren Slater ...
    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    de Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Emotion and Decision-making Explained

    de Edmund T. Rolls ...
    What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Motor Control

    de Mark L. Latash ...
    Motor control is a relatively young field of research exploring how the nervous system produces purposeful, coordinated movements in its interaction with the body and the environment through conscious and unsconscious thought. Many books purporting to cover motor control have veered off course to examine biomechanics and physiology rather than actual control, leaving a gap in the literature. This ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Dreaming Souls

    Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind

    de Owen Flanagan ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. In this groundbreaking ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research

    Edición de Pier Francesco Ferrari, Giacomo Rizzolatti ...
    The discovery of mirror neurons caused a revolution in neuroscience and psychology. Nevertheless, because of their profound impact within life sciences, mirror neuron are still the subject of numerous debates concerning their origins and their functions. With more than 20 years of research in this area, it is timely to synthesise the expanding literature on this topic. 'New frontiers in Mirror ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness

    Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

    de Bernard J. Baars, Nicole M. Gage ...
    Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Second Edition, provides students and readers with an overview of the study of the human brain and its cognitive development.It discusses brain molecules and their primary function, which is to help carry brain signals to and from the different parts of the human body. These molecules are also essential for understanding language, learning, perception, thinking ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Information Systems and Neuroscience

    Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2016

    Edición de René Riedl, Jan vom Brocke, Pierre-Majorique Léger, Fred D. Davis, Adriane B. Randolph ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the proceedings of the Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2016, reporting on topics at the intersection of Information Systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences. Readers will discover the latest findings from top scholars in the field of NeuroIS, which offer detailed insights on the neurobiology underlying IS behavior, essential methods and tools and their ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Clinical Neurobiology of the Hippocampus

    An integrative view

    Edición de Thorsten Bartsch ...
    The hippocampus is one of the most studied structures in the human brain and plays a pivotal role in human memory function. Its recognized function is reflected by the presence of an extensive body of neurophysiological, neuropsychological, anatomical and neurocomputational literature that presents basic mechanisms, theoretical models and psychological concepts. However, in the rapidly growing ... Leer más

    $208.99 USD