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"Affective Disorders: Depression, Mania and Bipolar Disorder" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the characteristics, symptoms, and treatment of affective disorders, including depression, mania, and bipolar disorder, including the neurobiological basis and pathology of these mental disorders.
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Esta tercera edición tiene como propósito entregar una perspectiva actualizada del desarrollo de la conceptualización de la inteligencia en el marco de la psicología científica, enfatizando las controversias más relevantes y destacando los enfoques más contemporáneos al respecto, como las investigaciones realizadas sobre inteligencia en Latinoamérica. El texto se orienta a alumnos de pregrado y a todos los profesionales que buscan una visión...
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Este libro se ha convertido en un texto imprescindible, para trabajadores sociales y profesionales que están comprometidos con el cambio social y el desarrollo de las comunidades. Producto de una larga y fructífera trayectoria profesional y docente, Yolanda Contreras de Wilhelm nos brinda un método fundamentado y probado en la práctica para la intervención de los grupos.
La autora describe la conformación, vida y evolución...
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What if digital communication felt as real as being touched?
This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding of human interaction.
Chorost himself has computers in his head...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Overview of Physiology and Neuropsychology is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University. This thought-provoking conversation dives into Miguel Nicolelis' extensive and important research for over 20 years now and how he has been blurring the line...
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Are you tired of feeling like you can't trust your own senses? Do you ever wonder if what you're seeing or hearing is actually real, or just a trick of your mind? If so, The Illusion of Perception is the book for you. With captivating examples and mind-bending insights, this book will challenge everything you thought you knew about perception. Discover how optical illusions can fool even the most rational minds, and how cognitive biases can influence...
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"Experimental Methods in Neuropsychopharmacology" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the experimental methodologies in studying the behavior and pharmacological responses in animals, and the scientific principles underlying such experimentations.
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A new book about brain chemistry, neural systems, and the formation of beliefs from the scientist who brought to light serotonin's many crucial roles in human behavior. Beliefs: What are they? How have evolution and culture led to a brain that is seemingly committed to near endless belief creation? And once established, why are most beliefs so difficult to change?
Believing offers answers to these questions from the perspective of a leading neuroscientist...
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How to retrain your mind to get the most out of life, even if you're plagued by negative thoughts.
We all wish we could get more from our minds. More focus, more power, and let's be honest, more intelligence.
What would you say if someone told you that you have power to "hack" your mind, retrain your brain, and get more out of life?
You probably wouldn't believe it, would you?
Mind Hacking Secrets will quickly have you seeing a new perspective....
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Abrir las puertas a una vida más plena. Ese es el objetivo de la Programación Neurolingüística (PNL). Y, para lograrlo, esta terapia trabaja con una serie de técnicas que tratan de averiguar cómo trabaja nuestra mente, de qué manera afecta al lenguaje y cómo usar este conocimiento para lograr que las tareas cotidianas de nuestra vida nos resulten fáciles y eficientes.
Creada a mediados de los años setenta del pasado siglo por Richard Bandler...
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When you know something works you have to teach others. Learn how to transform learning difficulties into successful learning differences, enabling youngsters and adults alike to succeed. Bridges to Success offers visually talented yet challenged individuals a completely new perspective, empowering them to change themselves and the system around them. The focus is on positives and how people can be their very best. Threads of research, a wealth of...
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Our brains have numerous functioning parts, all of which serve us at any one moment. But decades of research reveal the existence of two basic brain operating systems"-two fundamental ways in which the whole brain processes incoming information. Because of this phenomenon of brain dominance, most of us tend to favor the input of either our dualistic" left-brain (which focuses on parts instead of wholes) or our holistic right hemisphere. This means...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Neuropsychological Disorders is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Anthony Peake's first book, Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die, cause a considerable stir. In The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self, Peake expands on one of the most enigmatic areas of his previous book, the proposition that all consciously aware beings consist of not one but two...
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"Executive Functions" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the neurobiological basis of the executive function and executive control in decision making and conflict resolution cognitively and psychologically.
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Emotional Health Logically Accurate, Emotionally Healthy is ideal for anyone with a sweet-tooth for innovation in the fields of emotional health, mindfulness, performance excellence, stress management, self-development or energy psychology.What is the purpose of human thought?What are the steps to optimal thinking?What are the building blocks of emotional patterns that create your sensitivities and reactivities to every life experience?How can you...
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A once vibrant oak tree in her yard began dying, voicing cries of help through its dead leaves and moss-covered branches. Inside the house Barbara too was in crisis, the recipient of her husband's anger and rage. As time passes Barbara can no longer stay strong. While she deals with her own demons, the oak too weakens. Based on a true story, this woman takes us inside her emotionally charged existence, letting us feel the anguish of domestic abuse,...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books" Nicholas Humphrey has held posts at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and is now professor emeritus of psychology at the London School of Economics. His many books include A History of the Mind and Seeing Red.
A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousness
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly?...
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El desarrollo de nuestro cerebro-cuerpo-mente-espíritu no es una atribución determinada por la suerte, el destino o los genes. Es el resultado, sobre todo, de lo que cada uno hace por sí mismo y de la relación que construye con el entorno. Esto se traduce en una conformación cerebral quedefine la posibilidad de ser creativos, inteligentes y eficaces en las actividades que debemos y queremos realizar, y en definitive, de lograr una vida plena.
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