Neuroscience for Clinicians: Evidence, Models, and PracticeThis book fills the need for an introductory text that opens the field up to the beginner and takes them to higher-level thinking about neuroscience. Neuroscience has captured the interest of students, professionals, and the general public. In fact it is so new, that there are very few books that gather it together in one text. Neuroscience is an amalgamation of many fields: psychology, cognitive science, chemistry, biology, engineering, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics. People who are new to the discipline have to be able to find their way through all of these fields together. In addition, they need to understand the highly technical lexicon, modeling methods, and theoretical assumptions used to describe brain structure, function, and the interaction between them. This book will help readers navigate the conventions used to describe the brain that developed through the years. The authors crystallize the complex modeling methods and technologies so that readers understand what they are saying and how to use them. They address the important underlying principles and important issues of neuroscience, with the debates and discussions that are ongoing as the field evolves. They also include many salient fine-grained details so that the book is not just an overview, but also a useful guide for many levels of readers. |
Contents
Preliminaries | 2 |
Estimating the Likelihood of Our Models Our Stochastic Being Estimating What Comes Next SelfRegulation Finding the Optimal Path The Bellman ... | 6 |
Unlocking the Key to Neuroscience Terminology | 25 |
Conclusion | 31 |
Neuroscience Methods and Technologies | 42 |
Neuroimaging Technologies | 53 |
77 | 75 |
Brain Pathways 107 | 106 |
and the Long Path | 204 |
Thinking About Emotions | 213 |
Reconsolidating Memory | 219 |
Updating Unconsciously | 225 |
Conclusion | 232 |
Shifting the Nervous System in Common Disorders | 251 |
Relieving Anxiety 273 | 272 |
PTSD | 280 |
Biological Rhythms | 117 |
What is a Neural Network? | 124 |
Models of Learning | 133 |
Evolution of the Brain Over Eons of Time | 141 |
Brain Development Through the Life Span | 151 |
Conclusions | 164 |
Conclusion | 174 |
Working with Attention 185 | 184 |
Ways to Work with Unconscious Attention Therapeutically | 195 |
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