Neurosciences

In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling and critical examination of the history of the cognitive revolution ...

The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? The issue of what a drug ...

'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The ObserverHave yo...

Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are someho...

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so famil...

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you areand what makes each of us di...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole rang...

Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise to a host of new questions that lie at the intersecti...

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and...

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we ...

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its func...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

Dyslexia affects about 10% of all children and is a potent cause of loss of self-confidence, personal and family misery, and waste of potential. Al...

These four volumes, originally published between 1973 and 1988, were intended to provide a broad survey of cognitive neuroscience, a field known va...

After completing his groundbreaking research chronicled in DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman was left with one fundamental question: What do...

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. At the very core of our existence, the brain gen...

ADHD and Its Many Associated Problems is a clinical handbook about infants, children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, and elderly people wi...