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  • Reflections on the Musical Mind

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential.In Reflections ... Leer más

    $45.39 USD

  • Adaptation and Well-Being

    Social Allostasis

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Recently, an interest in our understanding of well-being within the context of competition and cooperation has re-emerged within the biological and neural sciences. Given that we are social animals, our well-being is tightly linked to interactions with others. Pro-social behavior establishes and sustains human contact, contributing to well-being. Adaptation and Well-Being is about the evolution ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • The CRF Signal

    Uncovering an Information Molecule

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Information molecules, such as Cortico-Releasing Factor (CRF), are ancient and widely distributed across diverse organs, playing various regulatory roles. CRF has been associated with a range of human conditions, including fear and anxiety, social contact, and most recently, addiction – in particular the euphoric feelings associated with alcohol consumption. Since its original discovery, research ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Bodily Sensibility

    Intelligent Action

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from the body. This work provides an integrative framework for understanding how these abilities are affected by visceral reactions. Schulkin presents provocative neuroscientific research demonstrating that ... Leer más

    $81.99 USD

  • Sport

    A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at all levels of ability at all times and in all places have engaged in sport. What drives this ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Effort

    A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the cognitive and non-cognitive brain, and there are diverse cognitive systems, many of which are embodied in motor systems that underlie self-regulation. Central to this thesis is that dopamine is the one neurotransmitter that underlies the diverse ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Curt Richter

    A Life in the Laboratory

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated theoretical arguments, choosing ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry demythologized. Think of it as foraging for coherence. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a naturalistic, realistic and an anthropological understanding of the human condition. The situated character ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • A Perspective on Opioid Addiction

    de Jay Schulkin, Bryce Huebner ...
    Today, the opioid crisis often feels intractable. This book offers a wider perspective on its underlying causes, examining the biological, psychological, and social aspects of addiction and the interactions among them.Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, and Bryce Huebner, a philosopher, explore the complexities of opioid addiction through a distinctive combination of neuroscientific ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Evolution of the Human Placenta

    de Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin ...
    Power and Schulkin reveal the amazing evolution of the human placenta—and in so doing show how each of our lives began.As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years of evolution that led to ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Milk

    The Biology of Lactation

    de Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together.After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. But it turns out that milk is a much more complicated ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD