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Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition (Bradford Books) |
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Book Description
With its strong theoretical focus, this book serves as an essential resource on the functional neuroimaging of cognitive processes and on the latest discoveries obtained through positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques. It is organized into three sections. The first covers the history and methods of PET and fMRI, as well as cognitive networks, showing how the brain regions involved in the different cognitive proc... >> |
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Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior |
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From Book News, Inc.
An accessible and extremely insightful examination of a wide range of frightening and repellant psychopathologies--rape, stalking, serial murder, etc. Simon (psychiatry, Georgetown U.) also goes beyond the glib characterizations of people as "good" or "bad" to reveal that this dark side is an essential component of human behavior. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H., Wallingford, PA, in Th... >> |
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Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain : The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books) |
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From Scientific American
The notion that the brain and central nervous system are made of circuits that process stimuli and evoke bodily responses is a founding principle of neuroscience. And we humans believe that once we understand every neural pathway, we will be able to predict a motor response to every sensory input—from feeling the tug of a fish on a hook to catching your spouse in bed with someone else. A... >> |
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