Morten Kringelbach, Helen Phillips

Emotion

Pleasure and Pain in the Brain

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Produktbeschreibung

Emotion provides a clear, contemporary review of our understanding of emotions and their neural basis - what is happening in our brains to make us 'feel the way we do'. It also explores emotional disorders, and how our understanding of emotion can be used to treat a range of psychiatric disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 187mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780199593491
• ISBN-10: 0199593493
• Artikelnr.: 40307006

Autorenporträt

Morten L. Kringelbach, D.Phil., is the director of the Hedonia: TrygFonden Research Group - a transnational research group based in both Oxford, UK and Aarhus, Denmark. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and a Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, as well as Senior Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Neuroscience at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Dr Helen Phillips is a journalist, writer and consultant, specialising in neuroscience and life sciences, for print, online and broadcast media. Dr Phillips obtained her first degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and was awarded a DPhil in Neuroscience from the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introducing emotions
2: A brief history of emotions
3: Individual emotions
4: Social emotional development
5: The nature of emotions: pleasure and pain
6: Emotion and cognition
7: Emotional disorders
8: The future of emotions
9: How do we know? Methods for emotion research