Neuroscience Books
Life and Suicide Following Brain Injury: A Personal and Professional Account
Life and Suicide Following Brain Injury tells the story of Tom, a 43 year-old man who acquired a brain injury from a road traffic accident at the age of 22. Tom survived but went on to take his own... (more)
Surviving Clinical Psychology
This vital new book navigates the personal, professional and political selves on the journey to training in clinical psychology. Readers will be able to explore a range of ways to enrich their... (more)
Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships
Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and... (more)
Life After a Rare Brain Tumour and Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome: Awake Behind Closed Eyes
This book offers a personal insight into the experience of Alex Jelly, a professional fundraiser who developed a rare brain tumour, a papillary meningioma, which was successfully removed. She was... (more)
The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered
Using a concise question and answer format, The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered examines basic temporal processes and the ways in which our perception of time can be altered. Divided into... (more)
The Story of a Clinical Neuropsychologist
From a disadvantaged childhood to becoming one of our best-loved clinical neuropsychologists, this exceptional book tells the life story of Barbara A. Wilson, who has changed the way we think about... (more)
Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury
The psychological impact of an acquired brain injury (ABI) can be devastating for both the person involved and their family. This book describes the different types of psychological therapies used to... (more)
The Unconscious: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience
The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as `the science of the unconscious mind',... (more)
The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-anatomical Study
In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinico-anatomical method to the study of dreams. The purpose of the effort was to place disorders of dreaming on... (more)
Neuroscience, Psychotherapy and Clinical Pragmatism
This volume explores how conceptions of pragmatism set forth in American philosophy serve as orienting perspectives in psychotherapy. Drawing on the influential contributions of William James and... (more)
Brain Imaging: What it Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness
Magnetic resonance imaging methods have taken a commanding position in brain studies because they allow scientists to follow brain activities in the living human. The ability to measure cerebral... (more)
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist and author of In Search of Memory documents the work of five leading minds including Sigmund Freud and Gustave Klimt in 1900 Vienna, revealing how their critical... (more)
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
A Why are we desperate for what we don't have, or can't have, often at great cost to what we do have? Why do we risk our peace and contentment, even our lives? Why are we so moved by our addictions,... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome: The New Evidence Base for Diagnosis and Treatment
This is the first neuropsychology book to translate exciting findings from the recent explosion of research on sport-related concussion to the broader context of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)... (more)
The Design and Analysis of Experiments in Neuroscience
Intended to meet the needs of a student who wishes to begin research in the field of neuroscience or biological psychology, this book provides background to the scientific method, and the use of both... (more)
Discoveries in the Human Brain: Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure and Function
This illustrated chronicle of discoveries about the brain aims to cover the historical sweep of neuroscience from the second millennium BC to the late 20th century. This engaging and engrossing... (more)
How to Solve the Mind-body Problem
The mind is the brain. Each mental state - hope, fear and thought - can be identified with a particular physical state of the brain. Or so argues Nicholas Humphrey. In this book he offers support for... (more)
Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind - Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry
In the history of American neuroscience, Roger Sperry and his contribution are outstanding. In this book, over twenty of his students, research colleagues and scientific friends, themselves all... (more)
Synesthesia - Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience:
The research presented in this volume demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not synaesthesia is real. The book questions how synaesthesia should be accounted for from... (more)
Mind: A Brief Introduction
"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In 'Mind', Searle dismantles... (more)
How the Body Shapes the Mind:
'How the Body Shapes the Mind' offers an examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. Shaun Gallagher uses the concepts of body image and... (more)
Consciousness Explained:
Revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that tautology and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and... (more)
Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, Measurement, and Theoretical Issues
Expanding the definition of dissociation in psychiatry, Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis presents a summary of the somatoform components of dissociation - how sensory and motor functions are affected by... (more)
Classic Cases in Neuropsychology:
Brings together in one volume further important case investigations that have shaped the way we think about the relationships between brain, behaviour and cognition. (more)
Origins of Neuroscience:
This volume traces the history of ideas about the functioning of the brain, from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the centuries into modern times. It emphasizes... (more)