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The 1990’s was designated as ‘the decade of the brain’ and now, common mental disorders are described as ‘brain disorders’. Yet intense research interest on the brain has largely side-lined the body as a passive observer, disconnecting mental from physical health and contributing to further societal stigma on the nature of psychiatric illness and mental distress. The biopsychosocial pathway to premature mortality or longevity is a complex one, involving a host of closely intertwined mechanisms and moderating factors, some of which are investigated in this special issue. All the articles published here provide new insights into the pathways linking emotion, physical health and longevity, highlighting the tight linkage between mind, brain and body.
This comprehensive handbook covers the entire range of physical disorders and their interrelated psychological problems. Behavioral changes, altered psychology, and in some cases, severe psychiatric conditions are frequent manifestations of communicable and non-communicable disease. While diseases have predictable trajectories, their psychological co-morbidities do not. This unpredictability, and sometimes lack of understanding can have profound effects on the professional, the patient, and the larger family unit. Mental health related domains of quality-of-life measure also impact the disease process but are often overlooked. Critical information targeted to experts within specialized areas can fail to reach a wider group of more general practitioners. This is complicated by the fact that psychological conditions may prompt organic disease, or conversely, disease may set off psychological disorders. This reference work creates the linkage between the two areas in a manner that is accessible to both experts and non-experts alike.
This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive account of brain-based research on translation and interpreting. First, the volume introduces the methodological and conceptual pillars of psychobiological approaches vis-à-vis those of other cognitive frameworks. Next, it systematizes neuropsychological, neuroscientific, and behavioral evidence on key topics, including the lateralization of networks subserving cross-linguistic processes; their relation with other linguistic mechanisms; the functional organization and temporal dynamics of the circuits engaged by different translation directions, processing levels, and source-language units; the system’s susceptibility to training-induced pla...
Human behavior and decision making is subject to social and motivational influences such as emotions, norms and self/other regarding preferences. The identification of the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying these factors is a central issue in psychology, behavioral economics and social neuroscience, with important clinical, social, and even political implications. However, despite a continuously growing interest from the scientific community, the processes underlying these factors, as well as their ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, have so far remained elusive. In this Research Topic we collect articles that provide challenging insights and stimulate a fruitful controvers...
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