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Based on a five-year research project, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women introduces an innovative approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity. Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2007-04-30
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This manual provides the information and materials needed to conduct an eight-session patient education programme for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers, complementing medical treatment.This programme was developed within an interdisciplinary European...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2006-10-02
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Around 10 million people in the UK suffer from a neurological disorder, one million of whom are disabled by their condition. Neurological disorders that can affect cognitive functioning include stroke, head injury, multiple sclerosis and dementia. Historically the...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2006-07-11
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This text offers a comprehensive overview of new approaches to health-related behaviour from a self-regulation perspective. The authors outline the assumptions on which self-regulation theories are based, discuss recent research and draw out the implications for...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2006-06-14
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This selection of carefully chosen chapters from the prestigious Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology focus on the more practical issues that are of particular relevance to the busy practitioner. It is a well-referenced but practical resource, which provides an...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2006-02-22
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Why are some drugs highly addictive? What exactly are the effects of different types of psychoactive drugs? How can they produce such dramatic effects on mood, cognition, sensation, awareness, health and well-being?
Understanding Drugs and ...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2005-04-08
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The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2003-12-18
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Although educators are expected to bring about functional changes in the brain--the organ of human learning--they are given no formal training in the structure, function or development of the brain in formal or atypically developing children as part of their education....
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2002-06-06
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From the human brain, event related potentials (ERPs) can be obtained which reflect psychological information processing. This book summarizes the theoretical and methodological aspects of research on the so-called ``endogenous'' components of the ERP. These components...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2000-04-01
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The publication in 1957 of S.S. Stevens' famous paper, On the psychophysical law, ignited a controversy which has continued ever since relating to people's subjective judgements of physical reality. Why is it that the perception of sensation can diverge so sharply from...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1997-06-26
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That time is both a dimension of behaviour and a ubiquitous controlling variable in the lives of all living things has been well recognized for many years.The last decade has seen a burgeoning of interest in the quantitative analysis of timing behaviour, and progress...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 1997-06-18
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Twenty to thirty years ago, the prognosis for children with cancer was dismal. Since then, remarkable advances in the treatment of childhood cancers have resulted in overall cure rates of 60 percent. In response to these improved prognoses, psychological frontiers of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1994-05-26
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Advances in the Study of Behavior
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 1991-05-02
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Advances in the Study of Behavior
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 1990-09-18
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Stimulus-response compatibility refers to the finding that certain mappings of stimuli to responses produce faster and more accurate responding than do others. The present volume surveys compatibility research which falls into four broad categories: (a) mental...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 1989-12-18
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Advances in the Study of Behavior
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 1988-11-01
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The contributors to this book are all distinguished, internationally-known specialists working in the motor control and learning area.The result is a unique collection of papers that discuss many aspects of this intricate and diverse subject and at the same time manage...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 1987-10-01
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Advances in the Study of Behavior
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 1987-07-21
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Spatial Neglect is one of the few areas in Neuropsychology where clinicians, psychologists and animal experimenters have succeeded in adopting a common language. The result of interaction between these three approaches has been some important new advances, which are...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 1987-03-01
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The volume applies to the study of the motor system the computational approach developed by David Marr for the visual system. Accordingly, understanding movement is viewed as an information processing problem, centred on the representation of appropriate computational...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 1986-10-01
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