Tics affect more than 100f the population, and can be an unpleasant and disruptive problem. They include chronic tic disorder, Tourettes syndrome and habit disorders such as hair pulling, nail biting and scratching. Treatment is either by medication (without convincing evidence) or psychological means. Before...
Exercise Physiology: A Thematic Approach introduces students with little or no background in human biology to the fundamentals of the physiological processes involved in sports performance. Its central theme is the physiological explanation of maximal oxygen uptake, one of the key concepts in sport and...
Now in its fully revised and updated third edition, this important reference and text brings together leading neuroscientists to describe current approaches to the study of memory. The volume has been completely rewritten to reflect the last decade's tremendous advances in the field--in particular, the...
This volume takes a multi-level approach to understanding and treating personality disorder, identifying core symptoms and problems that many patients share and providing a comprehensive framework for clinical intervention. Rather than presenting a particular model of therapy, W. John Livesley shows how a wide...
Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of
misquotations,...
Objects of Metaphor puts forward a philosophical account of metaphor radically different from those currently on offer. Powerful and flexible enough to cope with the syntactic complexity typical of genuine metaphor, it offers novel conceptions of the relationship between simile and metaphor,
the...
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel. Resisting the conventional wisdom that says that...
Вопрос преследуемый мною в настоящем сочинении состоит в разъяснении условий способствующих деятельности ума. А для уяснения сложных явлений мозговой деятельности допускаются и наблюдения над явлениями патологическими, и наблюдения субъективные. Наблюдения последнего рода и доставили мне преимущественный материал....
Множество психологов называют науку осознанного сновидения самым важным шагом в исследовании сна со времен Фрейда. Видеть осознанное сновидение – значит сохранять сознание во время сна. Доктор Стивен Лаберж знакомит нас с техниками, недавно разработанными в Центре изучения сна при Стэнфордском университете. Он...
/>Эта книга члена-корреспондента Академии медицинских наук профессора Л. Л. Васильева посвящена разоблачению суеверий, порождаемых наивным, обывательским пониманием некоторых таинственных явлении нервно-психического характера. Сон и необычайные...
