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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stefano oliverio”
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  • Psychobiology of Stress

    Edited by Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, A. Oliverio ...
    Series Book 54 - NATO Science Series D
    From a historical point of view the first studies on the response of the organism to stressful situations in general, and on the psychobiology of stress in particular, are probably those of Cannon and de la Paz, the physiologists who showed in 1911 that the adrenal medulla and the sympathetic system are involved in emergency situations. Cannon noted that the venous blood of cats frightened by ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Childhood Today

    Exploring the Boundaries

    by Thomas J. J. Storme, Giuseppe Ferraro, Walter Omar Kohan, Andrew Komasinski, Karin Fry, Tyson Lewis, Daniel Contage, Stefano Oliverio, Joshua M. Hall, Natalie M. Fletcher, James Stillwaggon, Bernardina Leal, Nancy Vansieleghem, Karin Murris ...
    Series series Philosophy of Childhood
    Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal Centuries of Childhood introduced the master-concept of childhood as a social and cultural ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • Brain on Fire

    My Month of Madness

    by Susannah Cahalan ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZA “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Singularity Hypotheses

    A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment

    Edited by Amnon H. Eden, James H Moor, Eric Steinhart, Johnny H Soraker ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Double-Crush Syndrome

    by Vladimir Golovchinsky ...
    Carpal-tunnel and other entrapment syndromes are perhaps the most common work-related injuries currently reported. With this book, Vladimir Golovchinsky presents the first evidence of double-crush syndrome as a subgroup of these.To date the existence of double-crush syndrome has been a matter of debate. Dr. Golovchinsky presents a statistical analysis of substantial clinical material, which finds ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Oxidative Neural Injury

    Edited by Sigrid C. Veasey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Twenty-five years ago, Earl R. Stadtman, PhD discovered that specific enzymes regulating metabolism can be inactivated by oxidation [1]. He later showed that age-related oxidative modification contributes, at least in part, to age-related loss of function of the enzymes [2, 3]. Dr. Stadtman broke the ground for a new field of study to discover how oxidative stress contributes in significant ways ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    by Michael Hoffmann ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This ground breaking title presents the many different neurologic syndromes and vastly expanding data in the brain sciences from an evolutionary, or neuro-archeological, perspective, as well as a clinical one. The neuro-archeological perspective offers a more thorough picture of the field – providing hindsight that leads to great insight and foresight. It thus provides the reader with the core ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Emotion in Games

    Theory and Praxis

    Edited by Kostas Karpouzis, Georgios N. Yannakakis ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship

    Edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Behavioral Neurobiology of Anxiety and Its Treatment

    Edited by Murray B. Stein, Thomas Steckler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book is part of a series on Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, which has as its focus anxiety and its treatment. We have brought together a distinguished cadre of authors with the aim of covering a broad array of topics related to anxiety disorders, ranging from clinical diagnosis, epidemiology, preclinical neuroscience, and animal models to established and innovative therapeutic ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework

    by Dennis R. Cooley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is – which requires a great deal of time spent developing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Neuroimaging of Pain

    Edited by Luca Saba ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Authored by world renowned scientists, this book expertly reviews all the imaging techniques and exciting new methods for the analysis of the pain, including novel tracers, biomarker, metabolomic and gene-array profiling, together with cellular, genetic, and molecular approaches. Recent advances in human brain imaging techniques have allowed a better understand of the functional connectivity in ... Read more

    $307.99 CAD