Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative – serie
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Drug Addiction and Drug Policy
The Struggle to Control Dependence
Av Philip B. Heymann, William N. Brownsberger
Inbunden, 2001
817 kr
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This book is the culmination of five years of impassioned conversations among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. As these intensely argued chapters show, the obvious answers are …
Memory, Brain, and Belief
Av Daniel L. Schacter, Elaine Scarry
Häftad, 2001
394 kr
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The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues …
Languages of the Brain
Av Albert M. Galaburda, Stephen M. Kosslyn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1568 kr
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The only way we can convey our thoughts in detail to another person is through verbal language. Does this imply that our thoughts ultimately rely on words? Is there only one way in which thoughts can occur? This ambitious book takes the contrary position, arguing that many possible "languages of …
Pain and Its Transformations
The Interface of Biology and Culture
Av Sarah Coakley, Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Inbunden, 2008
782 kr
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Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, …
Seeing Red
A Study in Consciousness
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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"Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is."Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved …
Physiology of Truth
Neuroscience and Human Knowledge
Häftad, 2009
306 kr
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In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is?Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on …
Placebo Effect
An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Häftad, 1999
430 kr
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A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" results. Medical science has largely managed its discomfort with this phenomenon by discounting the placebo effect, subtracting it as an impurity in its data …
