"This practical handbook provides an overview of the use of DBS for the treatment of movement disorders and psychiatric disease. This book will serve as a useful guide for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, and trainees in these specialties, as well as for movement…
Med afsæt i forfatterens skilsmisse giver hun et videnskabeligt perspektiv på kærlighed, sex, pardannelse og parforhold ved at opsøge forskere og se på en række nyere studier, bl.a. af virkningen af dopamin, oxytocin og vasopressin, af dna-analyser, genetik og hormoner, kortlægn…
Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the m…
The long-awaited new edition of this time-honored classic has arrived. Now in its Fifth Edition, the text includes fully updated testing references and a neuroimaging primer.
Explores commonly-held myths of the brain through the lens of scientific research, backing up claims with studies and other evidence from the literature Looks at enduring myths such as "Do we only use 10% of our brain?", "Pregnant women lose their mind", "Right-brained people ar…
Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more - more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that…
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functi…
A 3lb mass of moist biological matter, the brain is locked away in the dark and silent fortress of the skull, and yet somehow it produces the extraordinary multi-sensory experience that comprises us, every day of our lives. Just how it does this is revealed through six fascinati…
Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer - it is a communication system, like the internet, presenting a clear-eyed tour of brain science as it stands today and where the new paradigm might take it n…
