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Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

The brain is crucial for the regulation of whole-body metabolism and behavior. The pancreas-derived hormone insulin modulates brain function and affects energy metabolism as well as cognition. This is partially achieved by modulating several types of brain cell populations including those relevant to satiety and reward. Importantly brains of Alzheimer´s disease patients exhibit a signature of brain insulin resistance with perturbed brain metabolism. This book will cover the basics of insulin signaling in the brain and will describe concepts of insulin resistance a feature of type 2 diabetes. Moreover insulin´s effect on cognitive function will be pointed out and the association between brain insulin resistance and neurodegenerative diseases discussed. Additionally potential behavioral and pharmacological concepts which can affect brain insulin signaling will be summarized. Key Features: Summarizes insulin and the closely related IGF-1 receptor signaling Depicts concepts of insulin resistance Highlights the importance of conserved brain insulin signaling for brain function metabolism and behavior Describes potential behavioral and pharmacological approaches to support brain insulin signaling | Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

GBP 130.00
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Narrative Approaches to Brain Injury

Narrative Approaches to Brain Injury

This book brings together narrative approaches and brain injury rehabilitation in a manner that fosters an understanding of the natural fit between the two. We live our lives by narratives and stories and brain injury can affect those narratives at many levels with far-reaching effects. Understanding held narratives is as important as understanding the functional profile of the injury. This book explores ways to create a space for personal stories to emerge and change whilst balancing theory with practical application. Despite the emphasis of this book on the compatibility of narrative approaches to supporting people following brain injury it also illustrates the potential for contributing to significant change in the current narratives of brain injury. This book takes a philosophically different approach to many current neuro-rehabilitation topics and has the potential to make a big impact. It also challenges the reader to question their own position but does so in an engaging manner which makes it difficult to put down. | Narrative Approaches to Brain Injury

GBP 130.00
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Law Gender Identity and the Brain Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex Minors

Law Gender Identity and the Brain Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex Minors

This book challenges law’s reliance on neurology’s brain-sex binary. The brain has become the latest candidate in a historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of ‘true sex’ that has permeated every aspect of Western culture including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious the development and dissemination of brain-sex theories have come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But this book argues the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates ‘male’ and ‘female’ in two contested areas of sexed identity –through a discussion of Australian cases authorising medical interventions to alter the embodied sex characteristics of transgender minors and intersex minors –the book demonstrates an incoherence in the legal understanding of gender identity development. As the brain too fails as a convincing biological anchor for the binary sex categories of male and female law must it is argued retreat from its aspiration to create define and regulate artificially bounded sex categories of male and female. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of disciplines who are working at the intersection of law gender and sexuality. | Law Gender Identity and the Brain Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex Minors

GBP 130.00
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Train Your Brain A Year's Worth of Puzzles

Train Your Brain A Year's Worth of Puzzles

Many people start the day with physical exercise but few seem to be so concerned with exercising the most human of organs-the brain. This book provides you with entertaining and challenging mental exercises for every week of the year. Whether you are a high school student eager to sharpen your brain or someone older who would like to retain your mental agility you will find your brain getting sharper and more agile as you solve the puzzles in this book. Read a few puzzles every week think about them solve them and you will see the results. And on the way to a sharper mind you will enjoy every step. | Train Your Brain A Year's Worth of Puzzles

GBP 175.00
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Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook Technological and Theoretical Advances

Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook Technological and Theoretical Advances

Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances provides a tutorial and an overview of the rich and multi-faceted world of Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs). The authors supply readers with a contemporary presentation of fundamentals theories and diverse applications of BCI creating a valuable resource for anyone involved with the improvement of people’s lives by replacing restoring improving supplementing or enhancing natural output from the central nervous system. It is a useful guide for readers interested in understanding how neural bases for cognitive and sensory functions such as seeing hearing and remembering relate to real-world technologies. More precisely this handbook details clinical therapeutic and human-computer interfaces applications of BCI and various aspects of human cognition and behavior such as perception affect and action. It overviews the different methods and techniques used in acquiring and pre-processing brain signals extracting features and classifying users’ mental states and intentions. Various theories models and empirical findings regarding the ways in which the human brain interfaces with external systems and environments using BCI are also explored. The handbook concludes by engaging ethical considerations open questions and challenges that continue to face brain–computer interface research. Features an in-depth look at the different methods and techniques used in acquiring and pre-processing brain signals extracting features and classifying the user's intention Covers various theories models and empirical findings regarding ways in which the human brain can interface with the systems or external environments Presents applications of BCI technology to understand various aspects of human cognition and behavior such as perception affect action and more Includes clinical trials and individual case studies of the experimental therapeutic applications of BCI Provides human factors and human-computer interface concerns in the design development and evaluation of BCIs Overall this handbook provides a synopsis of key technological and theoretical advances that are directly applicable to brain–computer interfacing technologies and can be readily understood and applied by individuals with no formal training in BCI research and development. | Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook Technological and Theoretical Advances

GBP 99.99
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Minimal Brain Dysfunction A Prospective Study

Minimal Brain Dysfunction A Prospective Study

The concept of Minimal Brain Dysfunction (a previous term for ADHD) has had a tumultuous and some would say checkered history. Originally published in 1981 this title was one of a series of volumes dealing with specific developmental problems in children whose mothers registered for prenatal care in the Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP) of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS). In this volume relationships between symptoms of minimal brain dysfunction and more than 300 prenatal and postnatal variables are examined in a cohort of nearly 30 000 7-year-old children. Despite greater understanding more recently diagnosis and treatment continue to cause controversy. This is an early investigation into the concept of MBD and its causes today it can be read in its historical context. | Minimal Brain Dysfunction A Prospective Study

GBP 105.00
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Brain Computer Interface EEG Signal Processing

Brain Computer Interface EEG Signal Processing

Brain Computer Interface: EEG Signal Processing discusses electroencephalogram (EEG) signal processing using effective methodology and algorithms. This book provides a basic introduction to EEG and a classification of different components present in EEG. It also helps the reader to understand the scope of processing EEG signals and their associated applications. Further it covers specific aspects such as epilepsy detection; exploitation of P300 for various applications; design of an EEG acquisition system; and detection of saccade fix and blink from EEG and EOG data. Key Features: Explains the basis of brain computer interface and how it can be established using different EEG signal characteristics Covers the detailed classification of different types of EEG signals with respect to their physical characteristics Explains detection and diagnosis of epileptic seizures from the EEG data of a subject Reviews the design and development of a low-cost and robust EEG acquisition system Provides mathematical analysis of EEGs including MATLAB® codes for students to experiment with EEG data This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in biomedical electrical electronics communication engineering healthcare and cyber physical systems. | Brain Computer Interface EEG Signal Processing

GBP 105.00
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Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury A Guide for Working Clinicians

Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury A Guide for Working Clinicians

The book aims to acknowledge the complexity of working with clients who have an acquired brain injury but aims to give the interested reader practical and useable guides to develop their practice. Throughout the text case studies and practical suggestions are forwarded to facilitate do-able practice. It is hoped that the book will become a gold standard in this particular area and is aimed at a range of professionals in training (for those responsible providing training in psychopathology neuropsychology and psychotherapy) and those who have an interest in working with the issues commonly seen post acute brain injury rehabilitation settings. | Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury A Guide for Working Clinicians

GBP 130.00
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Nanobrain The Making of an Artificial Brain from a Time Crystal

Nanobrain The Making of an Artificial Brain from a Time Crystal

Making an artificial brain is not a part of artificial intelligence. It will be a revolutionary journey of mankind exploring a science where one cannot write an equation a material will vibrate like geometric shape and then those shapes will change to make decisions. Geometry of silence plays like a musical instrument to mimic a human brain; our thoughts imagination everything would be a 3D shape playing as music; composing music would be the brain’s singular job. For a century the Turing machine ruled human civilization; it was believed that irrespective of complexity all events add up linearly. This book is a thesis to explore the science of decision-making where events are 3D-geometric shapes events grow within and above never side by side. ​ The book documents inventions and discoveries in neuroscience computer science materials science mathematics and chemistry that explore the possibility of brain or universe as a time crystal. The philosophy of Turing the philosophy of membrane-based neuroscience and the philosophy of linear sequential thought process are challenged here by considering that a nested time crystal encompasses the entire conscious universe. Instead of an algorithm the pattern of maximum free will is generated mathematically and that very pattern is encoded in materials such that its natural vibration integrates random events exactly similar to the way nature does it in every remote corner of our universe. Find how an artificial brain avoids any necessity for algorithm or programming using the pattern of free will. | Nanobrain The Making of an Artificial Brain from a Time Crystal

GBP 105.00
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The Brain and the Inner World An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

The Brain and the Inner World An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework fo | The Brain and the Inner World An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

GBP 130.00
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Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces Prototyping EEG-Based Instruments for Monitoring and Control

Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces Prototyping EEG-Based Instruments for Monitoring and Control

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design prototyping and testing. Readers will explore active reactive and passive BCI paradigms with an emphasis on the operation for developing solutions addressing the need for customization. Readers will familiarize themselves with the main steps for the realization of low-cost wearable BCIs which include: identification of the most suitable neuro signals for a specific application; definition of the hardware firmware and software with a focus on wearable non-invasive and low-cost solutions; development of algorithms for data processing and classification; and lastly experimental campaigns for the validation of the prototyped solutions. BCI systems based on electroencephalography (EEG) are investigated and a complete overview of all BCI paradigms is offered. The aim of this book is to drive the reader from the beginning to the end along a research-and-development process of a working BCI prototype. This book is a guide for designers biomedical engineers students biotechnologists and those in the biomedical instrumentation field that would like to conceive design prototype and test an innovative low-cost wearable EEG-based BCI. | Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces Prototyping EEG-Based Instruments for Monitoring and Control

GBP 120.00
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Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications – extracts from books key articles research findings and practical and theoretical contributions. In this fascinating volume Professor David Canter refl ects on a career that has earned him an international reputation as one of the U. K. ’s most eminent applied social psychologists and a pioneer in the fi eld of environmental psychology through a selection of papers that illustrate one of the foundational themes of his research career: the psychology of place. Split into four parts each with a new introduction written by the author the book provides insights into theories methods and applications of place psychology. Covering a range of publications from early research in the 1960s up to recent explorations this volume provides the unfolding research that elaborates this seminal theory offering rich perspectives on how places gain their significance and meaning. Featuring specially written commentary by the author contextualizing the selections and providing an intimate overview of his career this collection of key publications offers a unique and compelling insight into decades of ground-breaking work making it an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the study of places. | Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

GBP 130.00
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Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness Essays Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of David P. Lepak

Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness Essays Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of David P. Lepak

This book on human resource management (HRM) research builds upon and extends the work of Professor David P. Lepak who was the Berthiaume Endowed Chair of Business Leadership in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Lepak was an internationally renowned HRM scholar who believed in giving back to his profession and was committed to introduce his research findings to students as well as the business community. In addition to being a tribute to Professor Lepak and his work this volume aims to help organizations and managers understand how to use human resource management to benefit employees while achieving organizational effectiveness. The chapters in this volume focus on strategic management of human capital resources strategic HRM and multilevel HRM —areas of research that were central to Professor Lepak’s academic contributions. These chapters together provide important theoretical and practical implications for understanding how organizations can use HRM to generate and utilize their strategic human capital resources and how HRM interacts with internal and external factors to influence important employee and organizational outcomes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. | Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness Essays Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of David P. Lepak

GBP 120.00
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The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising law-making and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts such as the Hebrew Bible Plato's Timaeus and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes. | The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

GBP 130.00
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Clinical Neuroscience Foundations of Psychological and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Clinical Neuroscience Foundations of Psychological and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Clinical Neuroscience offers a comprehensive overview of the biological bases of major psychological and psychiatric disorders and provides foundational information regarding the anatomical and physiological principles of brain functioning. In addition the book presents information concerning neuroplasticity pharmacology brain imaging and brain stimulation techniques. Subsequent chapters address specific psychological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases including major depressive and bipolar disorders anxiety schizophrenia disorders of childhood origin and addiction as well as neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. This highly readable textbook expands case examples and illustrations to discuss the latest research findings in clinical neuroscience from an empirical interdisciplinary perspective. | Clinical Neuroscience Foundations of Psychological and Neurodegenerative Disorders

GBP 89.99
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The Human Frontal Lobes

The Human Frontal Lobes

This authoritative work now thoroughly revised has given thousands of clinicians students and researchers a state-of-the-art understanding of the human frontal lobes-the large brain region that plays a critical role in behavior cognition health and disease. Leading experts from multiple disciplines address the anatomy and chemistry of the frontal cortex neuropsychological assessments of capabilities unique to the frontal lobes the nature of (and possible treatment avenues for) frontotemporal dementia and related conditions and implications for understanding and treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia mania and depression. Illustrations include eight pages in full color. New to This Edition: *Reflects a decade of important research advances in such areas as functional connectivity mapping of frontal and frontal-subcortical circuits. *Incorporates significant new information on frontotemporal dementia and other neurological disorders. *Expanded section on neuropsychiatric disorders with new chapters on apathy dissociative states and antisocial behavior. *Chapters on salience networks normal brain aging white matter diseases and clinical trials. *Increased attention to brain processes involved in moral reasoning empathy decision making and other key human capabilities.

GBP 91.99
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

How do conscious experience subjectivity and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally multidisciplinary enterprise involving powerful new combinations of functional brain imaging computational modelling theoretical innovation and basic neurobiology. Its progress will be marked by new insights not only into the complex brain mechanisms underlying consciousness but also by novel clinical approaches to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. These innovations are well represented by the contents of the present volume. A target article by Victor Lamme puts forward the contentious position that neural evidence should trump evidence from behaviour and introspection in any theory of consciousness. This article and its several commentaries advance one of the fundamental debates in consciousness science namely whether there exists non-reportable phenomenal consciousness perhaps dependent on local rather than global neural processes. Other articles explore the wider terrain of the new science of consciousness. For example Maniscalco and colleagues use theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to selectively impair metacognitive awareness; Massimini and coworkers examine changes in functional connectivity during anesthesi and Vanhaudenhuyse et al describe innovations in detecting residual awareness following traumatic brain injury. Together then contents of this volume exemplify the `grand challenge of consciousness' in combining transformative questions about the human condition with a tractable programme of experimental and theoretical research. | Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

GBP 175.00
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Sensing Sound Evolutionary Neurobiology of a Novel Sense of Hearing

Sensing Sound Evolutionary Neurobiology of a Novel Sense of Hearing

Hearing is a prerequisite for the evolution of language and thus the development of human societies. It is the only major sense whose evolution can be traced back to vertebrates starting with sarcopterygians. The book explores the evolution of auditory development that has remained largely unexplored in contemporary theories of neurosensory brain evolution including the telencephalon. It describes how sensory epithelia from the basilar papilla evolved in the ear and connected dedicated cochlear neurons to neuronal centers in the brain and deals with how sound is converted through sound modulations into reliably decoded messages. The loss of hearing with age is expected to reach 2. 6 billion people by 2050. As such the book explains and reviews hearing loss at the molecular level to the behavioral level and provides suggestions to manage the loss. | Sensing Sound Evolutionary Neurobiology of a Novel Sense of Hearing

GBP 145.00
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The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on engage with and build from topics related to cognition placing their work in contact with research today to critically determine areas of relevance refutation or revision. Showing how understandings of mind brain and body grounded the production of early sociological thought the book draws attention to the foundational role theories of cognition played in the emergence of sociology as a distinct field of study. With chapters on Comte Marx Weber Durkheim and Mead The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory constitutes a novel and timely engagement with canonical social theory extending its application to contemporary social life. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and psychology with interests in classical social theory cognition embodiment and sociality.

GBP 130.00
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Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

Schizophrenia is the central problem in the sciences of the mind not only for its etiological psychopathological and clinical aspects but also because of its implications for therapy and rehabilitation. In this volume the author describes a series of new scientific and clinical perspectives for schizophrenia influenced by cognitivist and constructivist approaches and informed by the logic of complexity and non-linear dynamic systems. The author delineates a new complex theory of the brain and a procedural theory of the mind founded on the concept of the modular brain and the coalitional mind. Subsequently the author develops a multi-factorial conceptualization of the etiological dynamic and an original complex and evolutionary perspective concerning the psychotic condition which has been redefined in this case as Entropy of the Mind or Phrenentropy. In conclusion the author illustrates an innovative integrated protocol denominated Negative Entropy for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia. | Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

GBP 130.00
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Third World Cities In Global Perspective The Political Economy Of Uneven Urbanization

Third World Cities In Global Perspective The Political Economy Of Uneven Urbanization

In this innovative book David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighborhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work putting these connections in a historical framework and using a case study approach. The societies of the world's underdeveloped countries are now undergoing an urban revolution | Third World Cities In Global Perspective The Political Economy Of Uneven Urbanization

GBP 130.00
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Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

This edition represents a thorough reworking expansion and updating of an earlier work distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition through Creative Teaching (ACT). This book is written for teachers that is for a wide range of professional communicators and facilitators of learning. It is designed as a practical guide for teachers who wish to learn how to use the art of suggestion to help students tap remarkable brain capacities. | Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

GBP 175.00
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Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

After decades of branding Yasser Arafat an arch-terrorist Israel has embraced the PLO leader as a partner for peace. In this study of one of the most extraordinary examples of secret diplomacy in the second half of the twentieth century David Makovsky diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post explores the personal domestic regional and | Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

GBP 130.00
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