Neuroscience Books

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11. The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

    By Jamie Ward

    Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the...

    Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
12. Diet, Brain, Behavior

    Practical Implications

    Edited by Robin B. Kanarek, Harris R. Lieberman

    As the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown, both the scientific community and the general population have expressed a heightened interest in the effect of nutrients on behavior. Diet, Brain, Behavior: Practical Implications presents the work of a diverse group of scientists who collectively...

    Published October 5th 2011 by CRC Press
13. Concussive Brain Trauma

    Neurobehavioral Impairment & Maladaptation, Second Edition

    By Rolland S. Parker

    Focusing on a public health problem affecting millions of people of all ages, the second edition of Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation reflects Dr. Rolland S. Parker's more than 25 years of neuropsychological practice and research in traumatic brain injury and...

    Published September 19th 2011 by CRC Press
14. Neurobiology of Depression

    Edited by Francisco Lopez-Munoz, Cecilio Alamo

    Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

    Major depressive disorders have recently been associated with impairments in signaling pathways that regulate neuroplasticity and cell survival. Agents designed to directly target molecules in these pathways hold promise as new therapeutics for depression. With the collaboration of the most...

    Published September 8th 2011 by CRC Press
15. The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes

    Edited by Micah M. Murray, Mark T. Wallace

    Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

    It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging and neuroscience methods, The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes details current understanding in the neural bases for...

    Published August 24th 2011 by CRC Press
16. Behavioural Economics and Business Ethics

    Interrelations and Applications

    By Philip Alexander Rajko

    Series: Routledge Advances in Behavioural Economics and Finance

    Economics and moral philosophy have in recent years been considered to be distinct and separate fields. However, behavioural economics has started to reconcile various aspects of morality and economics, which has offered new conceptual opportunities to advance economics ethics and business ethics....

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
17. Essentials of Functional MRI

    By Patrick W. Stroman

    During the last two decades, new developments in functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) have made it possible to detect changes in the brain over time, as opposed to the "snapshot" produced by conventional MRI. Essentials of Functional MRI breaks down the technical challenges for physicians,...

    Published June 6th 2011 by CRC Press
18. Epilepsy

    The Intersection of Neurosciences, Biology, Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics

    Edited by Ivan Osorio, Hitten Zaveri, Mark G. Frei, Susan Arthurs

    Epilepsy, one of the most prevalent neurological disorders, affects approximately 1% (greater than 60 million) of the world's population. In an estimated 20 million of these patients, seizures are not controlled even by multiple anti-seizure drugs, and are extremely difficult to predict. Epilepsy:...

    Published May 1st 2011 by CRC Press
19. TRP Channels

    Edited by Michael X. Zhu

    Series: Methods in Signal Transduction Series

    The rapid expansion of the TRP field has generated a large amount of excellent original work across many different research fields. However, investigators are not necessarily familiar with the pros and cons of the variety of methods used to study TRP channels. Because of functional and genetic...

    Published April 13th 2011 by CRC Press
20. Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward

    Edited by Jay A. Gottfried

    Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

    Synthesizing coverage of sensation and reward into a comprehensive systems overview, Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward presents a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach to the interplay of sensory and reward processing in the brain. While over the past 70 years these areas have drifted...

    Published March 27th 2011 by CRC Press