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    • The Handbook of Autobiographical Memory

      From Basic to Applied Perspectives
      • 1st Edition
      • Mohamad El Haj + 2 more
      • English
      The Handbook of Autobiographical Memory: From Basic to Applied Perspectives is a comprehensive resource that examines the complexities of autobiographical memory. Drawing from multiple disciplines, this book investigates how we remember our personal experiences by integrating cognitive and neural perspectives with historical developments in the field. Readers will discover how current research informs our understanding of memory formation, retrieval, and assessment. With its rich multidisciplinary approach, this volume addresses how autobiographical memory functions in everyday life and highlights variations in memory performance across individuals and groups.In addition, the book delves into the developmental and social factors that shape autobiographical memory, highlighting how memory evolves throughout the lifespan. It examines dysfunctions in autobiographical memory, offering practical tools for assessment and strategies for rehabilitation in both neurological and psychiatric settings.

    • Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Brain Disorders

      • 1st Edition
      • Danny J.J. Wang + 1 more
      • English
      Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Brain Disorders delves into the intricate structure and function of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), examining its essential role in the pathogenesis of various brain disorders. The book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge medical imaging technologies for visualizing BBB function, both in a healthy state and under diseased conditions. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of how the BBB influences normal brain function, including aspects such as aging and sleep, and how its dysfunction is linked to serious neurological conditions.Furthermo... the book explores BBB anomalies in brain disorders like stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral small vessel disease, Alzheimer's disease, and sleep apnea. It highlights modern medical imaging technologies, such as MRI, for observing BBB function in vivo. It emphasizes the importance of BBB imaging for monitoring and potentially curing brain disorders, and discusses its potential in the early detection of neurological disorders, allowing for timely and effective treatment strategies.

    • Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition

      • 2nd Edition
      • Jiro Hamada
      • English
      Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition, Second Edition delves into the cognitive processes involved in pattern recognition and the specialized systems that handle these processes. Topics covered include symmetry cognition, contour perception, geometric illusions, weight sensation, as well as repetitive and dot patterns. By integrating aspects of psychophysics and experimental phenomenology, the book offers a thorough exploration of pattern cognition from both physical and mental sensory viewpoints, offering a holistic understanding of this cognitive system. New to the second edition are updated models, including one which can draw theoretical curves of rod function, new experimental data on unifiedness as examined in a three-stage serial model. This edition also includes brand new chapters on

    • Neuroscience Without Representations

      Building a Brain-in-a-World View
      • 1st Edition
      • Óscar Vilarroya
      • English
      In Neuroscience Without Representations, an Open Access book, Oscar Vilarroya addresses the notion of “representation” as used in expressions like “neural representation” or “mental representation”. This concept is fundamental in neuroscience, yet there remains no clear, universally accepted view on what it means for a nervous system to represent something, what constitutes a neural activity as a representation, and what is being re-presented.The book lays the foundation for a non-representational view of brain function. Building upon György Buzsáki’s critique of the theoretical framework underlying current cognitive neuroscience, Vilarroya argues that disciplines such as embodied and embedded cognition—collective... known as ‘4E cognition’—are driving a paradigm shift in our understanding of animal cognition.Rather than grounding cognition solely in representations, the author proposes an alternative: understanding cognition as enaction—the meaningful engagement of an organism to address situational requirements. The book supports this approach through detailed analyses of recent studies.

    • The Neuroscience of Bach’s Music

      Perception, Action, and Cognition Effects on the Brain
      • 1st Edition
      • Eric Altschuler
      • English
      The Neuroscience of Bach’s Music: Perception, Action, and Cognition Effects on the Brain is a comprehensive study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music through the lens of neuroscience, examining neuroscience using Bach’s music as a tool. This book synthesizes cognitive neuroscience, music theory, and musicology to provide insights into human cognition and perception. It also explores how a neuroscience perspective can improve listening and performing experiences for Bach’s music. Written by a physician-neuroscien... recognized for scholarly articles on Bach’s music, this book uses specific examples to explore neuroscience across Bach’s compositions.The book is structured to discuss the brain’s action, perception, and cognition as connected to specific Bach concertos, tones, notes, and performances. Two guest contributors provide insight into exact mathematical, or topologic, and music theoretic aspects of Bach’s music with implications for cognitive neuroscience.

    • Advances in Resting-State Functional MRI

      Methods, Interpretation, and Applications
      • 1st Edition
      • Jean Chen + 1 more
      • English
      Advances in Resting-State Functional MRI: Methods, Interpretation, and Applications gives readers with basic neuroimaging experience an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the methods, opportunities, and challenges in rs-fMRI. The book covers current knowledge gaps in rs-fMRI, including "what are biologically plausible brain networks," "how to tell what part is noise," "how to perform quality assurance on the data," "what are the spatial and temporal limits of our ability to resolve FC," and "how to best identify network features related to individual differences or disease state". This book is an ideal reference for neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, psychologists, biomedical engineers, physicists and medical physicists. Both new and more advanced researchers alike will be able to discover new information distilled from the past decade of research to become well-versed in rs-fMRI-related topics.

    • Connectome Analysis

      Characterization, Methods, and Analysis
      • 1st Edition
      • Markus D. Schirmer + 2 more
      • English
      Connectome Analysis: Characterization, Methods, and Analysis is a comprehensive companion for the analysis of brain networks, or connectomes. The book provides sources of constituent structural and functional MRI signals, network construction and practices for analysis, cutting-edge methods that address the latest challenges in neuroscience, and the fundamentals of network theory in the context of giving practical methods for building connectomes for analysis. Emphasis is placed on quality control of the individual analysis steps. Subsequent chapters discuss networks in neuroscience in clinical and general populations, including how findings are related to underlying neurophysiology and neuropsychology.This book is aimed at students and early-career researchers in brain connectomics and neuroimaging who have a background in computer science, mathematics and physics, as well as more broadly to neuroscientists and psychologists who want to start incorporating connectomics into their research.

    • Handbooks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

      • 1st Edition
      • Colin R. Martin + 2 more
      • English
      Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Disorder: Case Studies and Application for AdultsPregnancy, childbirth, childhood, adolescence, and aging can be beset with adverse changes in psychobiology and behavior. Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging will better readers’ understanding of a variety of conditions and the applicability of CBT therapy as a treatment. Featuring chapters on postnatal anxiety and depression, insomnia, and dysmorphia, the book discusses in detail the use of cognitive behavioral therapies in the treatment of these issues affecting individuals at the start and end of their lives. With expert authors from the clinical field, the book has applicability for behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive and behavioral neuroscientists, and anyone working to better understand and treat using cognitive behavioral therapies.Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging Mental illness and the variety of conditions, disorders, and phobias associated with it impact not only the individual but also the family unit, the community, and society at large. Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Disorder: Case Studies and Application for Adults will better readers’ understanding of a variety of these conditions in adults specifically and the applicability of CBT therapy as a treatment. Featuring chapters on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dysmorphia, depression, and anxiety, the book discusses in detail the use of cognitive behavioral therapies in the treatment of these issues in adults. With expert authors from the clinical field, the book has applicability for behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive and behavioral neuroscientists, and anyone working to better understand and treat using cognitive behavioral therapies.

    • Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition

      • 1st Edition
      • Jiro Hamada
      • English
      Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition examines the cognitive transformations that underly this cognitive system and the specialized subsystems for processing these transformations. Sections cover symmetry cognition, contour perception and geometric illusion. Weight sensation is also discussed, as are repetitive and dot patterns. By incorporating elements of both psychophysics and experimental phenomenology, pattern cognition is examined from both the physical and mental sensory perspective, thus providing a comprehensive view of this cognitive system.

    • Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Disorder

      Case Studies and Application for Adults
      • 1st Edition
      • Colin R. Martin + 2 more
      • English
      Pregnancy, childbirth, childhood, adolescence, and aging can be beset with adverse changes in psychobiology and behavior. Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging will better readers’ understanding of a variety of conditions and the applicability of CBT therapy as a treatment. Featuring chapters on postnatal anxiety and depression, insomnia, and dysmorphia, the book discusses in detail the use of cognitive behavioral therapies in the treatment of these issues affecting individuals at the start and end of their lives. With expert authors from the clinical field, the book has applicability for behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive and behavioral neuroscientists, and anyone working to better understand and treat using cognitive behavioral therapies.