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What is addiction?
"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics…
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Neural control engineering: The emerging intersection between control theory …
How powerful new methods in nonlinear control engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advanced medical applications.Over the past sixty years, powerful methods of model-based control engineering have been responsible for such dramatic advances in engineering systems as autolanding aircraft, autonomous vehicles, and even weather forecasting. Over those s…
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A hole in the head : More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.
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Neurodevelopmental disorders
"Until recently, genetic, neuroanatomical, and psychological investigations on neurodevelopmental disorders were carried out independently. Now, tremendous advances across all disciplines have brought us toward a new scientific frontier: the integration of molecular genetics with a developmental cognitive neuroscience. The goal is to understand the basic mechanisms by which genes and environmen…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 614 pages) :illustrations.
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Better than conscious? : DECISION MAKING, the HUMAN MIND, and IMPLICATIONS FO…
Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the…
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Brain signal analysis Advances in Neuroelectric and Neuromagnetic Methods
This title explores recent developments in the tools and techniques of data acquisition and analysis in cognitive electrophysiology.
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Computational modeling methods for neuroscientists
This is a guide to computational modelling methods in neuroscience covering a range of modelling scales from molecular reactions to large neural networks.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 419 pages) : illustrations.
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Neurological foundations of cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."A review of a broad range of neurobehavioral syndromes from both neurological and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives.Despite dramatic advances in neuroimaging techniques, patient-based analyses of brain disorders continue to offer important insights into the functioning of the normal brain. Bridging the gap between the work of neurologists studying clinical disorders and n…
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The genetics of cognitive neuroscience / of Cognitive Neuroscience
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
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Moral psychology, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and…
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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