Fundamentals of Health Neuroscience
- 1st Edition - August 7, 2024
- Authors: Yi-Yuan Tang, Rongxiang Tang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 0 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 0 3 - 8
Health Neuroscience is a new interdisciplinary field encompassing research from cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience, health psychology, physical and mental health, and… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFundamentals of Health Neuroscience explores key topics and research, including basic principles, psychological and neural processes, brain and body interactions, and gene x brain x environment interactions. This book also covers brain-based precision prevention and intervention strategies for health decisions and promotion across the lifespan. Chapters integrate the latest research findings and explores several key topics, such as: How does the brain serve both as a predictor and an outcome of health? How can people improve self-control and achieve physical and mental health effectively? What does brain plasticity and resilience tell us about optimal learning, performance, and development throughout our life? How is the sense of meaning in life affected by dopamine and reward systems in the brain?
- Introduces a new interdisciplinary field of Health Neuroscience including its basic and translational research and applications
- Reviews current research on biomarkers of brain health and aging
- Discusses brain-body connection and health behavior change
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Author biographies
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Health neuroscience
- Brain serves as a predictor of health
- Brain serves as an outcome of health
- Brain–body interaction and health
- Science of behavior change
- Integrative health model
- Health neuroscience methodologies
- Individual differences and precision health
- An overview of chapters
- Conclusions and future directions
- Chapter 2. Brain development and health
- Brain cortices and development
- Brain development and disorders
- Brain development, environment, and experience
- Brain development and cognitive health
- Brain development and mental health
- Prevention and intervention for brain development and health
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 3. Genetics, brain, and health
- Genes and alleles
- Genes and brain
- Genes and health
- Epigenetics and intergenerational transmission
- Epigenetics and health
- Genetic mutations and health
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 4. Stress response, resilience, and brain
- The stress, stress symptoms, and brain
- Stress and neuroinflammation
- Neuroinflammation and interventions
- Dual-hormone modulation
- Subjective and objective stress assessments
- Stress resilience
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 5. Brain, body, and health
- Theories and mechanisms of mind–body interaction
- Gut–brain axis
- Brain and heart connection
- Brain and body connection
- Brain and body aging
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 6. Mindset, social brain, and health
- Mindsets and health
- Mindset intervention procedure
- Social support, loneliness, and health
- Learning is enhanced by social interaction
- Social isolation, loneliness, and health
- Brain, isolation, and loneliness
- Coping with social rejection and loneliness
- Technology, human behavior, and health
- Technology changes our brain/mind and lifestyle
- Technology changes our relationships and ourselves
- The challenge of being alone
- Sensory overload
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 7. Health behavior change and habit formation
- Science of behavior change
- Stages of change model
- Social cognitive theory
- Dual-process theory
- Health behavior change
- Habit and habit formation
- Habits and unconscious processes
- Automaticity, habits, and effortless training
- Attention habit and behavior change
- Health behavior interventions
- Promoting behavior change and habit formation through mindfulness practice
- Predictive coding, interoception, and behavior change
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 8. Brain plasticity for health promotion
- Theories and mechanisms of brain plasticity
- Neurogenesis in the adult brain
- Learning, memory, and brain plasticity in animals
- Experience-dependent brain structural plasticity in human
- Experience-dependent brain functional plasticity in human
- Brain plasticity, injuries, and diseases
- Interventions to promote brain plasticity and health
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 9. Brain health and aging
- Aging and basic mechanisms
- Cognitive and brain aging
- Modifiable risk factors for dementia
- Superaging and superagers
- Advances in clinical diagnosis and treatment of dementia
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 10. Preventions and interventions for health promotion
- Health promotion
- Prevention and interventions
- Fascial manipulation technique
- Effortful and effortless training
- Neuromodulation
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 11. Individual differences and health
- The study of individual differences
- Individual differences in personality and health
- Individual differences in states and health
- Individual differences in brain and health
- Individual differences in disease and health
- Summary and discussion
- Outstanding questions
- Chapter 12. Integrative health model
- Current status of conventional medicine
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Self-care
- From allopathic medicine to integrative medicine
- Self-control in self-care
- Self-balance
- Self-care activities
- Outstanding questions
- Index
- No. of pages: 348
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 7, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443156021
- eBook ISBN: 9780443156038
YT
Yi-Yuan Tang
Dr. Tang has an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural background, experience, and expertise in the areas of human neuroscience (e.g., cognitive, affective, social, cultural, and behavioral), health psychology, health science, prevention, and intervention science.
His research mainly focuses on how environment or experience (stress, learning, training, culture) affects self-control, emotion regulation, stress resilience, and decision-making and their interaction with genes to influence health and well-being. Additionally, he investigates both conscious and unconscious changes in healthy behavior, habits, and lifestyles. His translational research focuses on the development and implementation of evidence-based interventions to prevent and ameliorate behavioral problems and mental disorders such as ADHD, learning disabilities, substance use, mood disorders, and stress-related disorders over the lifespan. Dr. Tang’s interdisciplinary research has received support from NIH, the Office of Naval Research/Department of Defense, and private foundations including the John Templeton Foundation and James Bower Foundation. He has published 9 books and over 360 peer-reviewed articles in different academic journals, including Nature Reviews Neuroscience (NRN), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Trends in Cognitive Sciences (TiCS), Neuroimage, and Human Brain Mapping.
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Rongxiang Tang
Dr. Tang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the neural mechanisms of cognitive control and how psychological interventions improve cognitive, psychological, and mental health using neuroimaging techniques, genetic and psychosocial methods. She also received an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award and NIH’s Mentored Research Scientist Development Award for this work. Dr. Tang’s research encompasses topics from cognitive, clinical, and health neuroscience. In particular, her research focuses on 1) understanding the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive, psychological, and mental health in young and older adulthood, 2) examining individual difference factors (e.g., personality, genetics, and environment) contributing to inter-individual variability in cognitive, psychological, and mental health, as well as trajectories of brain and cognitive aging, 3) investigating and developing psychological interventions to improve health and ameliorate aging-related decline in health and brain functions. Dr. Tang has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles on cognitive, clinical, and health neuroscience and co-authored the Elsevier book The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences.