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Luria's Legacy in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780195176704 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of essays by leading neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists to honor Alexander Romanovich Luria and to highlight the enduring impact of his legacy on cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. A wide range of topics is covered, from functional neuroimaging in neuropsychology to bedside evaluation techniques. Several generations of neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists are among contributors, including those who closely worked with Luria, their own students, and others influenced in their work by Luria's pioneering insights.
This is a collection of essays by leading neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists to honor Alexander Romanovich Luria and to highlight the en...
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The Organisation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Perspectives: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
ISBN: 9781841699479 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Category-specific knowledge disorders are among the most intriguing and perplexing syndromes in cognitive neuropsychology. The past decade has witnessed increased interest in these disorders, due largely to a heightened appreciation of the profound implications that an understanding of concept representation has for such diverse topics as object recognition, the organisation of the lexicon, and storage of long-term memories. Until recently, information about the representation of concepts was limited to findings from patients with brain injury and disease. This state of affairs has now...
Category-specific knowledge disorders are among the most intriguing and perplexing syndromes in cognitive neuropsychology. The past decade has witness...
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Technology in Cognitive Rehabilitation: A Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
ISBN: 9781841699608 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communication and information technology has been used to support older and disabled people for over 30 years and there have been many successes in this field. This title considers the use of technology in cognitive rehabilitation.
Communication and information technology has been used to support older and disabled people for over 30 years and there have been many successes in th...
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Can Literacy Change Brain Anatomy?: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology
ISBN: 9781841699684 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Several studies have suggested that education and/or literacy may protect not only against the effects of biological aging but also against the clinical manifestation of cerebral neuropathology. In clinical neuro-psychology, much debate has centered on whether the brain is more likely to degenerate as a result of overuse or underuse. There is a popular belief that an active mental life may delay the cognitive deterioration associated with normal aging. Animal studies also support the concept that environment can influence brain development. This special issue brings... Several studies have suggested that education and/or literacy may protect not only against the effects of biological aging but also against the cli... |
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Emotion Science: Cognitive and Neuroscientific Approaches to Understanding Human Emotions
ISBN: 9780230005174 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research into emotion has exploded over the last decade and for the first time in a single book, Elaine Fox draws together the vast array of cognitive and neuroscientific research, exploring the interaction between cognitive and emotional processes. This insightful overview is an ideal core textbook for courses on cognition and emotion. Research into emotion has exploded over the last decade and for the first time in a single book, Elaine Fox draws together the vast array of cogni... |
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Perception: Theory, Development and Organisation
ISBN: 9780415190930 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses, has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research areas and presents the arguments and findings in a clear, concise form, enabling the reader to have a quick working knowledge of the area.
This clear and informative text discusses sensation and perception then looks at theories and explanations of perception. The way visual perception is structured... Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how t...
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Dalai Lama at Mit
ISBN: 9780674027336 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions. Is there any substance to monks' claims that meditation can provide astonishing memories for words and images? Is there any neuroscientific evidence that meditation will help you pay... Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you th... |
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On Intelligence . . . More or Less: A Biological Treatise on Intellectual Development, Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780674634565 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ceci argues that traditional conceptions of intelligence ignore the role of society in shaping intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of non-Western societies. He puts forth a "bio-ecological" framework of individual differences in intellectual development that is intended to address some of the major deficiencies of extant theories of intelligence. The focus is on alternative interpretations of phenomena that emerge when implicit assumptions of intelligence researchers are challenged.
Ceci argues that traditional conceptions of intelligence ignore the role of society in shaping intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of non-...
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Introducing Neuropsychology: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781841696539 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing Neuropsychology, Second Edition investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems and human behaviour. The material is presented in a jargon-free, easy to understand manner and aims to guide students new to the field through current areas of research. Following a brief history of the discipline and a description of methods in neuropsychology, the remaining chapters review traditional and recent research findings. Both cognitive and clinical aspects of neuropsychology are addressed to illustrate the advances scientists... Introducing Neuropsychology, Second Edition investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems a... |
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The A-Z of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties
ISBN: 9780816075584 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An estimated 19.2 million adults in the United States' have experienced some from of phobia, ranging from the common fear of large dogs to the unusual fear of gravity, fear of developing a fever, of fear of strange people. Anxiety disorders are the most common from of mental illness in the U.S., afflicting approximately 13.3 percent of all adults. Although phobias and anxiety disorders can be devastating, there are many effective treatments and therapies that can lead to successful outcomes. The A to Z of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties covers all aspects of these mental disorders, from the...
An estimated 19.2 million adults in the United States' have experienced some from of phobia, ranging from the common fear of large dogs to the unusual...
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Torture and Its Consequences: Current Treatment Approaches
ISBN: 9780521659543 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite numerous international declarations and conventions prohibiting human rights violations, torture remains a major problem in many countries of the world. This book reveals in some detail the medical, psychiatric and psychological problems confronting the survivors of torture, and reviews the various and sometimes conflicting treatment approaches available to those involved in their care. Contributions are drawn both from host countries treating refugees who have experienced torture and from countries where treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors has taken place in a setting...
Despite numerous international declarations and conventions prohibiting human rights violations, torture remains a major problem in many countries of ...
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Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law
ISBN: 9780804754057 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma (in trauma as socially constructed and related to identities of ethnicity, nationality, gender, and class); and second, because of its interest in the legal and medical professions (in their construction of trauma, their ways of treating it, their failures, and...
Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open u...
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The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience
ISBN: 9780765705884 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences.
The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insuf...
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The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience
ISBN: 9780765705891 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences.
The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insuf...
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Therapy After Terror: 9/11, Psychotherapists, and Mental Health
ISBN: 9780521884228 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Therapy After Terror examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the psychologically wounded following the attack. Therapists discuss the attack s effects on their patients, its personal and professional consequences for them, and the ways it challenged fundamental aspects of clinical theory and practice. The book describes crisis mental health services that were established after the attack, as well as longer-term treatments. It also examines notions of trauma, diagnostic procedures, and the politics of...
Therapy After Terror examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the ps...
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Introduction to Communicative Disorders
ISBN: 9781597562973 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great new introductory text that will appeal to both instructor and student alike Modern and most up to date treatment serves today's SLP community Covers the core essentials of the subject concisely and to the point Structured to aid the instructor with sections easily assimilated into extant lectures Packed with full-color illustrations The single-authorship by Weismer who has taught the course for over a decade ensures a fluidity and uniformity of style that is missing from other texts. Furthermore, he has deliberately kept coverage of each element of the course concise and planned to...
A great new introductory text that will appeal to both instructor and student alike Modern and most up to date treatment serves today's SLP community ...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dramatherapy : Treatment and Risk Reduction
ISBN: 9781853021831 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dramatherapy is a valuable practical guide for all those working in the field of trauma, from the result of war to the aftermath of sexual abuse. It shows ways forward in helping the sufferer, or group, in their journey through the dark, discussing how they can discover new paths or be reminded of long forgotten coping skills. The author acknowledges the therapist's needs and the presence of old wounds, and presents ways of working through them in both training and supervision, enabling them to journey with people on their way to healing.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dramatherapy is a valuable practical guide for all those working in the field of trauma, from the result of war to ...
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What Do You See?: Phenomenology of Therapeutic Art Expression
ISBN: 9781853022616 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author presents a varied menu of ideas and experiences in many areas - in research, in diagnosis, and in psychotherapy, each using art media with patients of all ages. She integrates art, phenomenology and gestalt psychology, describing specific techniques and findings. Part I of the book lays out the theoretical foundations and the techniques; Part II addresses the formal components used in art therapy - line, shape and colour in their interrelated dynamics and discusses other aspects and modes of symbolic expression found in clients' work. Part III looks at symbolic expression through...
The author presents a varied menu of ideas and experiences in many areas - in research, in diagnosis, and in psychotherapy, each using art media with ...
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Rehabilitation of Executive Disorders: A Guide to Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780198568056 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Executive disorders represent the most common and most troubling consequence of brain injury. These are disorders of the most sophisticated type, and notoriously difficult to assess, understand and rehabilitate. This book provides a concise and accessible review of best practice in the rehabilitation of executive disorders, that is, the ability to plan and execute actions and control behaviour. The book covers a wide range of approaches to the rehabilitation of executive disorders including potential uses of modern technology. The first section looks at theoretical approaches to executive...
Executive disorders represent the most common and most troubling consequence of brain injury. These are disorders of the most sophisticated type, and ...
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The God Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God
ISBN: 9781402214523 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is Man the product of a God...or is "God" the product of human evolution? From the dawn of our species, every human culture-no matter how isolated-has believed in some form of a spiritual realm. According to author Matthew Alper, this is no mere coincidence but rather due to the fact that humans, as a species, are genetically predisposed to believe in the universal concepts of a god, a soul and an afterlife. This instinct to believe is the result of an evolutionary adaptation-a coping mechanism-that emerged in our species to help us survive our unique and otherwise debilitating... Is Man the product of a God...or is "God" the product of human evolution? From the dawn of our species, every human culture-no matter how isolat... |
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