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Cellular Neurophysiology and Integration: An Interpretive Introduction
by William R. Uttal. 312 pgs.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1: Introduction

2: A Brief History of Cellular Neurophysiology

3: Neuroanatomy

4: Electrophysiological Techniques

5: The Chemical Basis of Neuroelectric Activity: The Resting Potential and a Taxonomy of Action Potentials

6: Cellular Aspects of the Transduction Process

7: The Transmission Process

8: Compound and Pooled Action Potentials

9: The Synapse

11: The Aplysia: Anatomy and Physiology of a Model Preparation

12: A Summary of General Principles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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2.

Review of the Graphic Brain: Neurophysiology, in Teaching of Psychology
by Stephen F. Davis, Jason P. Kring. 3 pgs.

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Biomusicology: Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological, and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Purposes of Music
by Nils L. Wallin. 586 pgs.

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To Christina

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prelude

Chapter 1 the Functional Asymmetry of the Cerebral Hemispheres

Chapter 2 the Auditory System

An Introdlictory Epitome

Concluding Remarks on the Auditory System

Chapter 3 Vigilance--Motivation--Emotion-- Purposive Behavior

Introduction

Chapter 4 Vigilance -- Motivation -- Emotion -- Purposive Behavior II

Introduction

Chapter 5 Emergence of Purposive Auditory Behavior as Testified by Vertebrate Evolution and Human History

Introduction

Chapter Six . . . to Break Silence

Appendix I How Did the Kölning Arrive in Jämtland?

Appendix Ii the Epistemological Impact of Musical Notation

Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects
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New Psychiatric Frontiers (Chap. 3 "Perspectives in the Neurophysiological Study of Behavior and Its Abnormalities")
by Silvano Arieti, H. Keith H. Brodie, David A. Hamburg. 1092 pgs.

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American Handbook of Psychiatry: New Psychiatric Frontiers

Contributors

Contents

Part One: Basic Approaches to the Understanding of Human Behavior

Chapter 1: Evolution and Human Nature

Chapter 2: Chimpanzee Behavior as a Model for the Behavior of Early Man New Evidence on Possible Origins of Human Behavior

Chapter 3: Perspectives in the Neurophysiological Study of Behavior and Its Abnormalities

Chapter 4: Establishing and Modifying Neuronal Interactions: Some Experimental Approaches

Chapter 5: Electrical Activity of the Central Nervous System

Chapter 6: The Limbic System: an Anatomical and Functional Orientation

Chapter 7: The Isocortex

Chapter 8: An Overview of Sleep Research: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 9: Scientific Concepts and the Nature of Conscious Experience

Chapter 10: Self-Evaluations of Competence and Worth in Adulthood

Chapter 11: Creativity and Its Cultivation: Relation to Psychopathology and Mental Health

Chapter 12: The Relevance of General Systems Theory to Psychiatry

Part Two: The Development of Behavior

Chapter 13: Poverty, Social Depreciation, and Child Development

Chapter 14: Attachment Theory, Separation Anxiety, and Mourning

Chapter 15: Experimental Psychopathology in Nonhuman Primates

Chapter 16: Developmental Psychobiology

Chapter 17: Psychiatric Genetics

Chapter 18: Social Change and the Problems of Youth

Part Three: Frontiers in Psychopharmacology

Chapter 19: Basic Neuropharmacology

Chapter 20: Linkage of Basic Neuropharmacology and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Chapter 21: Depressions and Biogenic Amines

Chapter 22: Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Euphoria

Chapter 23: The Psychobiology of Mania

Chapter 24: Promising Directions in Psychopharmacology

Chapter 25: Research in Nonnarcotic Drug Abuse

Chapter 26: Physiological Sociology: Endocrine Correlates of Status Behaviors

Part Four: New Directions in Treatment and Care

Chapter 27: Intrauterine Diagnosis and Genetic Counseling: Implications for Psychiatry in the Future

Chapter 28: Human Sexuality: Research and Treatment Frontiers

Chapter 29: Promising Directions in Psychoanalysis

Chapter 30: New Directions in Group Therapy

Chapter 31: Planning the Delivery of Mental Health Services to Seriously Disadvantaged Populations

Chapter 32: Research in the Delivery of Health Services

Chapter 33: Perspectives on Delivery of Mental Health Services

Chapter 34: The Future of the Public Mental Hospital

Chapter 35: New Methods for Assessing the Effectiveness of Psychiatric Intervention

Chapter 36: Computer Applications in Psychiatry

Chapter 37: Promising Interactions between Psychiatry and Medicine

Part Five: The Social Context of Psychiatry

Chapter 38: Trends in Medical Education

Chapter 39: Social Communication and the Information Sciences

Chapter 40: Social Ecology: Multidimensional Studies of Humans and Human Milieus

Chapter 41: Psychiatric Aspects of the Nazi Persecution

Chapter 42: Social Changes, Economic Status, and the Problems of Aging

Chapter 43: The Federal Government and Mental Health

Chapter 44: Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Population Problems

Editor-In-Chief's Concluding Remarks

Name Index

Subject Index
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Vision and Mind: Modeling Mental Functions (Chap. 3 "The Modules of the Visual Cortex: Neurophysiological Investigations")
by Vadim D. Glezer. 282 pgs.

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Introduction

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 Processing of Visual Signals in The Retina and the Lgn

SUMMARY

2 The Receptive Fields of the Striate Cortex

3 The Modules of the Visual Cortex: Neurophysiological Investigations

SUMMARY

4 Piecewise Fourier Analysis: Psychophysical And Behavioral Evidence

SUMMARY

5 The Primary Segmentation of Visual Space

6 The Prestriate and Peristriate Cortices and Their Functions

7 The Two Basic Visual Mechanisms

SUMMARY

8 Pattern Recognition and The Functions of the Itc

SUMMARY

9 The Description of Spatial Relations And the Functions of the Ppc

SUMMARY

10 Hemispheric Asymmetry And Visual Recognition

SUMMARY

11 A Hypothesis and Model of The Higher Divisions of the Visual Brain: The Double Dichotomy of The Visual Brain

12 A Perceptual Model Of the World

SUMMARY

Epilogue

References

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The Rest Principle: A Neurophysiological Theory of Behavior
by John David Sinclair. 234 pgs.

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Preface

1: Introduction

2: Simulations of the Use Principle and Rest Principle with Neutral Stimuli

3: Learning to Eat

4: Classical Conditioning

5: Lateral Inhibition

6: Physiological Evidence Backing the Rest Principle

7: Instrumental Learning I: Drive and Stimulus Reduction

8: Instrumental Learning Ii: Stimulation Seeking, Optimal Levels, and Pleasure

9: Brain Structures and Neuronal Organizations

10: Sleep, Arousal, and Attention

References

Glossary of Abbreviations and Technical and Idiosyncratic Terms

Author Index

Subject Index
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Sleep Deprivation: Basic Science, Physiology, and Behavior (Chap. 13 "Physiological and Neurophysiological Changes")
by Clete A. Kushida. 527 pgs.

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Analyzing ground-breaking research, this reference highlights the impact of sleep deprivation on the well-being of the individual and society-presenting current theories on the function of sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation on patients with medical and psychiatric conditions, as well as providing interpretative and methodological results in comparative studies of sleep deprivation.

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1: Perspectives

2: History of Sleep Deprivation

3: Animal Models of Sleep Deprivation

4: Total Sleep Deprivation

5: Partial and Sleep-State Selective Deprivation

6: Sleep Fragmentation

7: Environmental Influences on Sleep and Sleep Deprivation

8: Shift Work

9: Medications, Drugs of Abuse, and Alcohol

10: Factors Affecting Test Performance

11: Attention and Memory Changes

12: Cortical and Electroencephalographic Changes

13: Physiological and Neurophysiological Changes

14: Metabolic and Endocrine Changes

15: Thermoregulatory Changes

16: Biochemical Changes

17: Immunologic Changes

18: Changes in Gene Expression

19: Criteria for Classifying Genes as Sleep or Wake Genes

20: Mood Changes

21: Antidepressant Effects

22: Personality/Psychopathologic Changes

23: Age and Individual Determinants of Sleep Loss Effects

24: Homeostatic and Circadian Influences

Index
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Motor Representation and Control (Chap. 7 "Neurophysiology of Reaching")
by M. Jeannerod. 880 pgs.

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Preface

List of Contributors and Participants

Introduction

1: Hierarchical Control in the Execution of Action Sequences: Tests of Two Invariance Properties

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Ii Tutorials on the Basic Organization Principles of Motor Representations

2: The Motor Cortical Areas and the Problem of Hierarchies

Acknowledgments

3: Motor Programs: Concepts and Issues

Summary and Conclusions

Acknowledgment

References

4: Programs, Schemas, and Neural Networks for Control of Hand Movements: Beyond the Rs Framework

References

Acknowledgments

5: Action-Perception as a Pattern Formation Process

Introduction

Acknowledgments

References

Iii Movement Initiation and Motor Output Specification in Voluntary Action

6: Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Aimed Movements: Toward a Theory of Rapid Voluntary Action

Introduction

Acknowledgments

References

7: Neurophysiology of Reaching

Acknowledgments

References

8: Parallel Interacting Channels in the Initiation and Specification of Motor Response Features

Introduction

References

Acknowledgments

9: Generalized Motor Programs: Reexamining Claims of Effector Independence in Writing

Introduction

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

10: Constraints for Action Selection: Overhand Versus Underhand Grips

Introduction

Acknowledgments

References

Iv the Structure of Motor Patterns in Learned Movements and Speech

11: Common Factors in the Control of Free and Constrained Movements

Summary and Conclusions

References

Acknowledgments

12: Rhythmic Precision in the Performance of Piano Scales: Motor Psychophysics and Motor Programming

Acknowledgments

References

13: Rapid Serial Movements: Relation Between the Planning of Sequential Structure and Effector Selection

Acknowledgments

References

14: Phase Transitions in Speech Production and Their Perceptual Consequences

Acknowledgments

References

15: Acquisition of Speech Production: Frames, Then Content

Introduction

Summary and Implications

Acknowledgments

V Sensorimotor Transformation and the Representation of Action Coordinates

16: Sensorimotor Transformations and the Kinematics of Arm Movements in Three- Dimensional Space

Introduction

Acknowledgment

References

Conclusion

17: The Geometric and Dynamic Implications of the Coherence Constraints in Three-Dimensional Sensorimotor Interactions

Introduction

Introduction

18: Sensory-Motor Adaptation to High Force Levels in Parabolic Flight Maneuvers

References

Acknowledgments

19: Contribution of Skeletal and Extraocular Proprioception to Kinaesthetic Representation

Introduction

References

Acknowledgments

20: Eye Movements to a Visual Stimulus Flashed Before, During, or After a Saccade

Introduction

Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

21: Basic Perceptuo-Motor Dysfunctions in Cerebral Palsy

Summary and Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

22: Joint Visual Attention, Manual Pointing, and Preverbal Communication in Human Infancy

Introduction

Vi the Role of Sensory-Based Adjustments in the Achievement of the Goal

23: Functional Contributions of Rapid and Automatic Sensory-Based Adjustments to Motor Output

Acknowledgments

References

24: Gaze Saccade Orienting and Hand Pointing Are Locked to Their Goal by Quick Internal Loops

General Conclusion

References

Introduction

25: Tactile Afferent Signals in the Control of Precision Grip

26: Motor Representations in Deafferented Humans: A Mechanism for Disordered Movement Performance

Introduction

Vii Constraints on Motor Learning and Development

27: A Perception -- Action Perspective on the Development of Manual Movements

28: Units of Motor Behavior: Modifications with Practice and Feedback

Acknowledgments

References

29: Motor Learning and the Degrees of Freedom Problem

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

30: Gesture Learning and Apraxia

Introduction

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Subject Index
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Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception ("Neurophysiological Subjectivism" begins on p. 133)
by Evan Thompson. 354 pgs.

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Colour fascinates all of us, and scientists and philosophers have sought to understand the true nature of colour vision for many years. In recent times, investigations into colour vision have been one of the success stories of cognitive science, for each discipline within the field - neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and philosophy - has contributed significantly to our understanding of colour. Evan Thompson's book is a major contribution to this interdisciplinary project. Colour Vision provides an accessible review of the current scientific and philosophical discussions of colour vision. Thompson steers a course between the subjective and objective positions on colour, arguing for a relational account. This account develops a novel 'ecological' approach to colour vision in cognitive science and the philosophy of perception. It is vital reading for all cognitive scientists and philosophers whose interests touch upon this central area.

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Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

1: The Received View

2: Colour Vision: Recent Theories and Results

3: Naturalistic Ontologies

4: The Comparative Argument

5: The Ecological View

6: Visual Experience and the Ecological View

Notes

References

Index
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Toward a New Behaviorism: The Case against Perceptual Reductionism (Discussion of neurophysiology begins on p. 77)
by William R. Uttal. 252 pgs.

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SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY SERIES

BOOKS BY WILLIAM R. UTTAL

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1 Introduction: the Way Things Are

Chapter 2 Barriers Between Theories and Mechanisms

Chapter 3 the Case Against Perceptual Neurcireductionism

Chapter 4 the Case Against Cognitive Reductionism

Chapter 5 Toward a New Behaviorism-- a Summary and Some Conclusions

Chapter 6 Emerging Principles

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Disorders of the Schizophrenic Syndrome (Chap. 4 "Neurophysiological Aspects of the Schizophrenic Syndrome")
by Leopold Bellak. 629 pgs.

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Foreword My Sixty Years with Schizophrenics

Disorders of the Schizophrenic Syndrome

Introduction an Idiosyncratic Overview

Part I: Research Aspects

Chapter 1: Epidemiology

Chapter 2: Biochemical Studies in Schizophrenia

Chapter 3: The Genetic Studies of the Schizophrenic Syndrome: a Review of Their Clinical Implications

Chapter 4: Neurophysiological Aspects of the Schizophrenic Syndrome

Chapter 5: Studies of Psychological Functions in Schizophrenia

Chapter 6: Children at Risk

Chapter 7: Family Studies

Part II: Clinical Aspects

Chapter 8: Diagnostic Issues in Schizophrenia

Chapter 9: Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia

Chapter 10: EST and Other Somatic Therapies of Schizophrenia

Chapter 11: Individual Psychotherapy

Chapter 12: Group, Family, Milieu, and Community Support Systems Treatment for Schizophrenia

Chapter 13: Community Psychiatric Treatment

Chapter 14: The Prognosis of Schizophrenia

Chapter 15: Prevention in Schizophrenia

Chapter 16: Childhood Schizophrenia and Autism: a Selective Review

Chapter 17: Legal and Ethical Developments

Epilogue: The Schizophrenic Syndrome: What the Clinician Can Do until the Scientist Comes

Appendix

The Contributors

Index

Subject Index
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Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap (Chap. 7 "Stuttering: A Neurophysiological Perspective")
by E. Charles Healey, Nan Bernstein Ratner. 260 pgs.

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1: Bridging the Gap Betwen Stuttering Research and Practice: an Overview

References

2: The Best Day to Rethink Our Research Agenda Is Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

References

3: Stuttering: A Unified Approach to A Multifactorial, Dynamic Disorder

Acknowledgment

References

4: Epidemiologic Factors and Stuttering Research

Acknowledgments

References

Footnotes

5: Bridging the Gap Between the Science and Clinical Practice

References

6: A Conceptual Framework for Investigating the Neurobiology of Stuttering

References

7: Stuttering: A Neurophysiological Perspective

Acknowledgments

References

8: Clinician/Researcher: A Way of Thinking

References

9: Integrating Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Factors in Stuttering

References

10: Progress Under the Surface and Over Time

References

11: A Preliminary Look at Shame, Guilt, and Stuttering

Acknowledgments

References

12: Evaluation of Child Factors Related to Early Stuttering: A Descriptive Study

References

13: Family Communication Patterns and Stuttering Development: an Analysis of the Research Literature

References

14: The Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention

References

Footnotes

15: On Watching A Discipline Shoot Itself in the Foot: Some Observations on Current Trends in Stuttering Treatment Research

Summary and Conclusions

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

16: The Effectiveness of Stuttering Therapy: an Issue for Science?

References

Footnotes

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Developmental Science and the Holistic Approach
by Lars R. Bergman, Robert B. Cairns, Lars-Goran Nilsson, Lars Nystedt. 484 pgs.

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This book is the outcome of a symposium where leading researchers, mainly in developmental psychology, came together to discuss the implications of the emerging developmental science and the holistic approach. In doing this, the authors wanted to honor a distinguished colleague, David Magnusson, and his career-long contributions to this field. The purpose of the book is to discuss the profound implications for developmental science of the holistic paradigm, especially with regard to the individual development within psychology. Against the background of their own empirical, theoretical, or methodological research, the authors have tried to identify what is needed for the developmental theory and methods within this paradigm and discuss possibilities and limitations in relation to conventional approaches.

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Preface

Part I: Introduction

C H a P T E R 1: Introduction

Reference

C H a P T E R 2: David Magnusson: the Footprints of Wisdom

References

Part II: Theoretical Considerations

C H a P T E R 3: The Individual as the Organizing Principle in Psychological Inquiry: a Holistic Approach

References

C H a P T E R 4: Developmental Science: Three Audacious Implications

References

C H a P T E R 5: Principles of Dynamic Pattern Formation and Change for a Science of Human Behavior

Acknowledgments

References

P a R T III: Methodological Considerations

C H a P T E R 6: The Modern Synthesis in Psychological Development

References

C H a P T E R 7: Dialectics in Development and Everyday Life

References

C H a P T E R 8: Beyond Static Concepts in Modeling Behavior

Acknowledgment

References

C H a P T E R 9: The Application of a Person-Oriented Approach: Types and Clusters

References

C H a P T E R 10: Three Tasks for Personality Psychology

References

C H a P T E R 11: Real and Statistical Parents and Children: the Varied Discoveries of Research

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P a R T IV: A Biological Perspective

C H a P T E R 12: Understanding Genetic Activity Within a Holistic Framework

Acknowledgments

References

C H a P T E R 13: Lessons from the Wings of Drosophila

References

Acknowledgments

C H a P T E R 14: Psychobiological Patterns at Adult Age: Relationships to Personality and Early Behavior

References

Acknowledgments

C H a P T E R 15: Social Ecology and the Development of Stress Regulation

References

Acknowledgments

P a R T V: Personality

C H a P T E R 16: The Four Cs of Personality: Context, Consistency, Conflict, and Coherence

References

C H a P T E R 17: Self-Description and Personality Styles

References

Acknowledgment

C H a P T E R 18: A Person-Centered Approach to Personality and Social Relationships: Findings from the Berlin Relationship Study

References

Acknowledgments

C H a P T E R 19: Personality and Organizational Destructiveness: Fact, Fiction, and Fable

References

P a R T VI: Developmental Paths of Adjustment

C H a P T E R 20: Studying the Etiology of Crime and Violence Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders: Challenges in the Definition and the Measurement of Interactions

References

C H a P T E R 21: Swedish Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a Holistic Approach to the Study of Child Development

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C H a P T E R 22: When Do Preschool Problems Link to Future Adjustment Problems and When Do They Not?

Acknowledgments

References

C H a P T E R 23: Developmental Patterns and the Dynamics of Alcohol Problems in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

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C H a P T E R 24: Studying the Real Child Rather Than the Ideal Child: Bringing the Person into Developmental Studies

Acknowledgments

References

C H a P T E R 25: A Holistic, Integrated Model of Risk and Protection in Adolescence: a Developmental Contextual Perspective About Research, Programs, and Policies

References

Acknowledgment

P a R T VII: Summing Up

C H a P T E R 26: Epilogue and Prospects

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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