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Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition (Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series)
by Raymond P. Kesner David S. OltonThis book represents a unique and elaborate exposition of the neural organization of language, memory, and spatial perception in a wide variety of species including humans, bees, fish, rodents, and monkeys. The editors have united the comparative approach with its emphasis on evolutionary determinants of behavior, the neurobiological approach with its emphasis on the neural determinants of behavior, and the cognitive approach with its emphasis on understanding higher-order mental functions. The combination of these three approaches provides an unusual look at the neurobiology of comparative cognition, and should stimulate increased investigations in this field and related disciplines.
Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition (Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series)
by Raymond P. Kesner David S. OltonThis book represents a unique and elaborate exposition of the neural organization of language, memory, and spatial perception in a wide variety of species including humans, bees, fish, rodents, and monkeys. The editors have united the comparative approach with its emphasis on evolutionary determinants of behavior, the neurobiological approach with its emphasis on the neural determinants of behavior, and the cognitive approach with its emphasis on understanding higher-order mental functions. The combination of these three approaches provides an unusual look at the neurobiology of comparative cognition, and should stimulate increased investigations in this field and related disciplines.
The Neurology of the Elderly
by Richard Godwin-Austen John BendallTraditional methods in the clinical practice of neurology have dominated clinical teaching in this specialty for about 100 years. Essentially these methods involve meticulous attention to detail and the recording of clinical facts. Thus the clinical history must be recorded chronologically, preferably in the patient's own words, and of the nervous sys followed by a carefully structured examination tem set out in such a way as to allow the precise localisation of the lesion or system involved. Clinical neurology taught and practised in this way has bred generations of neurologists throughout the world and raised the standards in the specialty to a level where clinical skills are probably unexcelled in any other specialty. With increasing availability and reliance upon non-invasive imaging techniques, the need for these skills in large areas of neurological practice has diminished. But perhaps more importantly, the classical clinical methods in neurology were developed when the elderly population was much smaller and when the specialty of geriatrics did not exist. As a result, much of the methodology is irrelevant or unreliable in of geriatrics will frequently the elderly population and the student find himself searching in vain in the textbooks of neurology for help in assessing an elderly patient with an atypical presentation (for example disturbance of balance or recurrent confusional episodes) of some common neurological disorder.
The Neuropsychological Analysis of Problem Solving
by A.R. Luria L.S. TsvetkovaFor any of us, problem solving is a daily event. For some, it is a major task. This historical book puts to use neuropsychological methods to analyze the process of problem solving. Experience shows that the process is psychologically so complicated that standard methods established in pedagogy and psychology are insufficient to precisely determine individual factors hindering effective problem solving.The authors present techniques for rehabilitation training which could compensate for the impairments observed in individual cases. Luria's work has transformed rehabilitation training, enabling the evaluation of rehabilitation principles and methods.Luria's thinking and conceptual style reflect his genius and rich understanding of brain-behavior relationships. As those who have read it agree, Luria demonstrates remarkable insight with his complex analysis and his qualitative analysis is ""breathtaking.
The Neuropsychological Analysis of Problem Solving
by A.R. Luria L.S. TsvetkovaFor any of us, problem solving is a daily event. For some, it is a major task. This historical book puts to use neuropsychological methods to analyze the process of problem solving. Experience shows that the process is psychologically so complicated that standard methods established in pedagogy and psychology are insufficient to precisely determine individual factors hindering effective problem solving.The authors present techniques for rehabilitation training which could compensate for the impairments observed in individual cases. Luria's work has transformed rehabilitation training, enabling the evaluation of rehabilitation principles and methods.Luria's thinking and conceptual style reflect his genius and rich understanding of brain-behavior relationships. As those who have read it agree, Luria demonstrates remarkable insight with his complex analysis and his qualitative analysis is ""breathtaking.
Neuropsychological and Behavioral Aspects of Diabetes (Contributions to Psychology and Medicine)
by Clarissa S. HolmesBehavioral medicine has blossomed as an area of systematic investiga tion during the past 10-20 years. Throughout its steady growth, there have been increasing interest and specialization in the study of neuro psychological and behavioral aspects of diabetes. This book attempts to capture and report exciting new developments in the study of both insulin-dependent (Type I) and non-insulin-dependent (Type II) dia betes mellitus. Accordingly, it is divided into two major sections. Physiological aspects of each disease, which differ significantly in pathophysiology and course, are discussed in separate medical over views that introduce each major section. These overviews are written by Drs. Tsalikian and Zimmerman, leading medical researchers in insulin and non-insulin-dependent diabetes, respectively. Each section also contains chapters describing neuropsychological and cognitive disease correlates, psychosocial patterns of adjustment, and treatment adher ence issues. Psychological aspects of insulin-dependent diabetes have been studied more extensively than non-insulin-dependent diabetes, perhaps because it is more often associated with graver medical compli cations. Therefore, there is a larger body of research to review and the first section has been divided into chapters on cognitive disease se quelae in populations of children and adults, separately. In his chapter, Dr. Ryan discusses developmental factors related to the unique sensi tivity of the brain to metabolic derangement. Dr. Holmes reviews studies of adults with diabetes and the cognitive correlates of both acute and chronic blood glucose disruption. Developmental disease is sues are further covered in Dr.
Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology)
by Rhawn JosephThis book is written for the clinician, students, and practitioners of neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioral neurology. It has been my intent throughout to present a synthesis of ideas and research findings. I have reviewed thousands of articles and research reports and have drawn extensively from diverse sources in philosophy, psychol ogy, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, physiology, and neuroanatomy in order to produce this text. Of course I have also drawn from my own experience as a clinician and research scientist in preparing this work and in this regard some of my own biases and interests are represented. I have long sought to understand the human mind and the phenomena we experience as conscious awareness. After many years of studying a variety of Western and Eastern psychologists and philosophers, including the Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophical systems, I began, while still an undergraduate student, to formulate my own theory of the mind. I felt, though, that what I had come upon were only pieces of half the puzzle. What I knew of the brain was minimal. Indeed, it came as quite a surprise when one day I came across the journal Brain as I was browsing through the periodicals section of the library. I was awed. An entire journal devoted to the brain was quite a revelation. Nevertheless, although intrigued by the possibilities, I resisted.
Neuropsychopharmacology: Proceedings of the XVIth C.I.N.P. Congress, Munich, August, 15-19, 1988
by W. E. Jr. Bunney Hanns Hippius Gregor Laakmann Max Schmauß
Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory (Developments in Connectionist Theory Series)
by Mark A. Gluck David E. RumelhartWritten for cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists, this book provides an accessible overview of how computational network models are being used to model neurobiological phenomena. Each chapter presents a representative example of how biological data and network models interact with the authors' research. The biological phenomena cover network- or circuit-level phenomena in humans and other higher-order vertebrates.
Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory (Developments in Connectionist Theory Series)
by Mark A. Gluck David E. RumelhartWritten for cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists, this book provides an accessible overview of how computational network models are being used to model neurobiological phenomena. Each chapter presents a representative example of how biological data and network models interact with the authors' research. The biological phenomena cover network- or circuit-level phenomena in humans and other higher-order vertebrates.
Neurotransmitter and Dementia (Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa #30)
by S. Nakamura, C. G. GottfriesNeurotransmitter changes taking place in the brain of patients with dementia disorders, mainly Alzheimer type dementia, are reported. Their role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is discussed; and the neurochemical changes are considered as a base for formulating treatment strategies. By studying markers in the cerebrospinal fluid, diagnostic methods may be achieved that will aid in diagnosing subgroups of dememtia.
New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law, and Social Control (Critical Issues in Social Justice)
by School of School of Justice StudiesThe publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Jus tice Studies. When Dr. John M. Johnson was awarded the Arizona State University Graduate College's Distinguished Research Award for 1986- 1987, the School faculty voted to use the accompanying stipend to bring several scholars to campus. Each visiting scholar was commis sioned to present an original paper on contemporary issues in justice and to meet with graduate students and faculty during a week-long visit to campus. This collection of essays promotes wide-ranging conceptions of justice. As first conceived, we sought to bring an interdisciplinary per spective to the study of justice as a way of intellectually extending the current focus of research and teaching. As it developed, the collection permitted us to reflect on our own instructional program in law and the social sciences and to promote a conception of social conflict and control which includes social, political, economic, and legal controls.
New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #282)
by Taher Zandi Richard J. HamThe management of Alzheimer's Disease and the related dementias is one of the major challenges to health care professionals and American society-at-large for the coming decade and the coming millennium. The rapid growth of the over-eighty-five population, the group which, as recent studies have confirmed and as many of us clinicians have long suspected, has an even higher prevalence than previously quoted of dementing disorders, is the major cause of this. We are thus challenged by, as Bernard Issacs used to call it, "the survival of the unfittest," as well as the oPtimistic approach of "bringing life to years," as John F. Kennedy said. The fact is that we, as a society, tend to confuse "treatment" and "cure" (and "prevention"). As the proceedings of the conference which this book represents emphasize, there is considerable work going on about the potential prevention of, or at least the reduction of, symptomatology in these illnesses by interventions genetically, chemIcally, and so forth. However, the more we find out, the more complicated it becomes, and the more heterogeneous Alzheimer's and the related disorders appear to be, not only in their manifestations (as clinicians have long recognized) but also in the individual initiating and underlying processes. For these reasons, absolute preventive techniques or the likelihood of an intervention which will reverse the process in a high proportion of patients, do not appear to be just around the corner.
Ökologische Krise und Risikobewußtsein: Zu psychischen Verarbeitung von Umweltbelastungen
by Frank M. Ruff
On Death without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying (Perspectives on Death and Dying)
by David Wendell MollerCandidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying-silent avoidance-only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.
On Death without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying (Perspectives on Death and Dying)
by David Wendell MollerCandidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying-silent avoidance-only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.
Opioids, Bulimia, and Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
by Larry D. ReidThis text is the written form of the proceedings of a satellite symposium associated with the 1988-meeting of the Society for Neu roscience. The symposium was held 12 November 1988 in the auditor ium of the Addictions Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada. The ac tual writing took place across the months following the symposium. The symposium was sponsored by the Addictions Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U. S. A. , and Rensselaer, Troy, NY, U. S. A. Du Pont Pharmaceuticals provided some financial assistance. Contributors also received specific support for their own projects and these are ac knowledged at the end of each chapter. The accomplishment of science involves the efforts of many persons and their organizations. That is surely manifest in the work presented here. Modern science is very expensive and, consequently, financial resouces must be developed and distributed wisely. Those who facilitate this basic function have the appreciation of those of us who need the resources to do our work. There are a large number of individuals whose names will not appear in these pages that make sub stantial contributions. We are thankful for their daily contributions. The people who provide the money, those who distribute it, and those who help us do our work have the legitimate expectation that the sci entists who use the resources will use it prudently. We hope that your expectations are fulfilled, and sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Our Responses to a Deadly Virus: The Group-Analytic Approach
by Angela MolnosThis book analyses the disturbance that HIV/AIDS causes in society and in the individual and shows how it can activate the destructive power of groups, if nothing is done to stem these effects. It is devoted to documenting experiences from a workshop the author convened in London in December 1987.
Our Responses to a Deadly Virus: The Group-Analytic Approach
by Angela MolnosThis book analyses the disturbance that HIV/AIDS causes in society and in the individual and shows how it can activate the destructive power of groups, if nothing is done to stem these effects. It is devoted to documenting experiences from a workshop the author convened in London in December 1987.
Pädagogik und Didaktik der Freizeit (Freizeit- und Tourismusstudien #1)
by Horst W. OpaschowskiKein Freizeitberuf kommt künftig ohne pädagogische Qualifikationen aus. In dieser Beurteilung stimmen der Bundesverband der pädagogischen Frei zeitberufe und die Kommission Freizeitpädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft überein. Die Begründung liegt auf der Hand: 0 Mit der expansiven Freizeitentwicklung unmittelbar verbunden ist eine wachsende Kommerzialisierung und Vermarktung der Freizeit, von der einerseits finanziell schwache Gruppen weitgehend ausgeschlossen wer den und andererseits sozial orientierte Freizeitinhalte einschließlich Kulturarbeit, Weiterbildung und politischer Bildung auf der Strecke zu bleiben drohen. 0 An alle im Freizeitbereich Tätigen werden in Zukunft erhöhte Anforderun gen hinsichtlich Berufsethik und beruflicher Kompetenz zu stellen sein. Kein Freizeitberuf kommt künftig ohne Grundkenntnisse der Pädagogik und Didaktik, der Psychologie und Soziologie aus. 0 Die sich expansiv entwickelnden Dienstleistungen im Freizeitbereich ge hen mit einem wachsP.nden Bedarf an qualiftzierten Fachkräften einher, vor allem in den Bereichen Tourismus und Fremdenverkehr, Kur und Re habilitation, Sport und Kultur, aber auch in Problembereichen wie Er werbslosigkeit, Frühpensionierung oder Umweltschutz. Traditionelle pädagogische Berufe wie z. B. Erzieher, Sozialpädagogen oder Lehrer können in diesen Bereichen ein neues Tätigkeitsfeld finden, wenn sie sich die notwendigen Zusatzqualifikationen in den freizeitpädagogischen Methoden der Beratung, Animation und Planung aneignen und in Psychologie und Soziologie, Ökologie und Ökonomie Grundkenntnisse erwerben. Freizeitberufe müssen kompetent und in der Lage sein 0 Beratungsaufgaben wahrzunehmen und Aufklärungsarbeit zu leisten, 0 praktisch anzuleiten und zu betreuen, 0 organisatorisch und koordinierend tätig zu werden sowie 0 Fort- und Weiterbildungsaufgaben im Freizeitbereich zu übernehmen - mit Einfühlungsvermögen und Menschenkenntnis, Überzeugungskraft und pädagogischen Fähigkeiten.
Panik: Angstanfälle und ihre Behandlung
by Jürgen Margraf Silvia Schneider"Innerhalb von Sekunden beginnt sein Puls zu rasen, abwechselnd kalter und heißer Schweiß bricht ihm aus, furchtbare Angst schnürt ihm die Kehle zu." Solche und ähnliche Symptome schwerer Angststörungen schildern die meisten Patienten, die heute in eine Arzt- oder Psychologenpraxis kommen. Fast immer hängen andere körperliche und psychische Störungen damit zusammen.In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie solche Panikanfälle richtig diagnostizieren und welche psychologische Behandlung der Patient braucht. Ihr aktueller Ratgeber für Ihre Patienten in panischer Not.
Paraverbal Communication with Children: Not through Words Alone
by E.P. Heimlich A.J. MarkFor over twenty years I have been privileged to observe, partic ipate in, and contribute to the development of the ideas and techniques that culminated in this most unusual, impressive, and useful book. in words the total experience While it is difficult to convey of this innovative therapeutic approach, this volume enables the reader to become a part of these therapy sessions and to learn to "know" and appreciate these fruitful methods. The techniques described in detail in this volume are designed for use with children who are viewed as "resi stant" and uncommunicative-a fairly large percentage of youth who have not responded to traditional therapy. The approach is based on many practical assumptions. Among them are the idea that rhythm, of whatever nature, cannot be "shut out"; that one can have pleasure in producing c- v vi FOREWORD munication (fun of all things); and that pleasure and accep tance lead to the integration of motility, emotions, and ideation. These all lead to increased self-esteem and compe tence. The selection of the modality is completely individu alized and leads to a therapy with the child-not to or at the child. To complete the circle, the method is eminently teachable. Thus, both students in training and practicing therapists who are concerned with promoting growth and development in the children they treat will find this guide exceptionally use ful and stimulating. H. D. Dunton, M. D.
Particle Physics: Cargèse 1989 (NATO Science Series B: #223)
by Maurice Lévy Jean-Louis Basdevant Maurice Jacob David Speiser
Pathologie des psychosomatischen Reaktionsmusters: Diagnose · Klinik · Therapie
by Peter GathmannAnhand der außergewöhnlich hohen Zahl von 3354 in neun Jahren untersuchten Patienten (ambulant, stationär und nachuntersucht) zeigt der Autor multifaktorielle Definitionen des pathologischen psychosomatischen Reaktionsmusters und des diagnostisch-therapeutischen Managements in der Psychosomatik. Die Besonderheit des Buches besteht darin, daß es die ambulanten und stationären Versorgungsstrategien kritisch und anhand einer ungewöhnlichen Fülle beweiskräftigen statistischen Materials untersucht. Als Erhebungsstrukturen werden EDV-reife Fragebögen (verwendet: interdisziplinärer Kurzfragebogen für Ambulanzen; Nachuntersuchungsfragebogen), mit progredienter Differenziertheit konzipiert, von denen der ausführlichste (unverwendet) modellhaft zur Diskussion steht. Da auch Daten zum konsultierenden und delegierenden Mediziner erhoben werden, ist die Basis gegeben, die zu einer Metaanalyse des "wer behandelt (oder nicht) welchen PPSRM-Patienten zu welchem Zeitpunkt, mit welchen Mitteln und welchem Erfolg" verwendet werden. Ziel dieses Buches ist eine Sensibilisierung des Mediziners und des medizinischen Helfers für Einsatz, Wirkungsweise und Ökonomie diagnostisch-therapeutischer psychosomatischer Strategien.
Patterns of Life History: The Ecology of Human Individuality (Applied Psychology Series)
by Michael D. Mumford Garnett S. Stokes William A. Owens Garnett StokesThis work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories. The traditional models for the description of human differences are reviewed, then contrasted with the presentation of alternative models. This volume is also one of the few to investigate different approaches to measurement procedures. Practical applications of these models and the results obtained in a 23 research effort are discussed.