This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded including large gains in wealth longevity and possibly happiness it has occurred together with the appearance of a variety of serious problems. Modernity and Cultural Dec... Lees meer.

This internationally authored volume presents major findings concepts and methods of behavioral neuroscience coordinated with their simulation via neural networks. A central theme is that biobehaviorally constrained simulations provide a rigorous means to explore the... Lees meer.

Significant advances in brain research have been made but investigators who face the resulting explosion of data need new methods to integrate the pieces of the brain puzzle. Based on the expertise of more than 100 neuroscientists and computer specialists this new v... Lees meer.

This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded including large gains in wealth longevity and possibly happiness it has occurred together with the appearance of a variety of serious problems. Modernity and Cultural Dec... Lees meer.

Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation How can people master their own thoughts feelings and actions. This question is central to the scientific study of self-regulation. The behavioral side of self-regulation has been extensively investigated over... Lees meer.

A must-have professional reference for researchers and educators in psychology sociology anthropology public health genetics medicine and the biological sciences this issue of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics discusses how complex biological behav... Lees meer.

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains where it affects how the smokers feel and act. When smokers display their cigarettes they are saying something symbolic and personal about themselves. And when smokers... Lees meer.

Behavioral biobehavioral and biomedical interventions are programs with the objective of improving and maintaining human health and well-being broadly defined in individuals families schools organizations or communities. Behavioral biobehavioral and biomedic... Lees meer.

Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive substance in the world and one of the widest-traded commodities in the forms of coffee tea and soft drinks. But is consumption of caffeine safe in terms of physical and mental health. Aimed at addressing this question autho... Lees meer.

Pain is a common symptom yet it is frequently underevaluated and undertreated. It is difficult to define describe and sometimes to prove. It s pain and suspicions of exaggerations often add further insult to a patients injuries. Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain tran... Lees meer.

Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care stands out as a one-stop reference for a range of professionals including health practitioners specializing in pain management or palliative care clinical and health psychologists public health professionals and clinicians and ad... Lees meer.

Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive substance in the world and one of the widest-traded commodities in the forms of coffee tea and soft drinks. But is consumption of caffeine safe in terms of physical and mental health. Aimed at addressing this question autho... Lees meer.

This book presents a framework for development optimization and evaluation of behavioral biobehavioral and biomedical interventions. This book presents a framework for development optimization and evaluation of behavioral biobehavioral and biomedical intervent... Lees meer.

Chronic Pain. An Integrated Biobehavioral Approach...offers in a single volume the most comprehensive and in-depth view of the field currently available. Drs. Flor and Turk share their collective knowledge and professional insights accumulated over three decades of ex... Lees meer.

The majority of cancer-related deaths are associated with nutritional problems. Originally published in 1985 the purpose of this book was to meet the needs of both the clinician and the researcher by bringing together data and theory about nutrition and cancer from sev... Lees meer.