Overview
- Explains what this unit means for theory and practice
- Offers insight into the latest scientific findings on the subject
- Illustrates why mental disorders are always brain disorders - and vice versa
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The textbook builds a bridge between the "neurosciences" (theoretical and experimental neurobiology, neurology) and the "psychosciences" (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy) and aims to help provide the other disciplines with the most important and scientifically validated knowledge in an understandable form.
The question of how mental experience and brain processes relate to each other has long been considered mysterious. In this book you will learn, based on the latest scientific findings, that the two areas form an indissoluble unity, even if we experience and study them differently. We present this unity in concrete terms in psychological-neurobiological theory and psychiatric-psychotherapeutic practice. We treat the principles of neurobiological excitation and information processing, the structure and function of the limbic system, the development of the personality and the interaction of genetic-epigenetic factors and prenatal and postnatal environmental influences, which may be favourable or unfavourable. On this basis, the exemplary presentation of important mental disorders such as addictive disorders, schizophrenic disorders, affective disorders and anxiety disorders takes place. Finally, following in the footsteps of the eminent psychotherapist Klaus Grawe, the concept of "neuropsychotherapy" is introduced and it is shown why psychotherapy and neurobiology belong together and can enrich each other. Our psychoneuroscientific approach paints a picture of man that is not based on opposites, but on an integration of psyche, brain, behavior and experience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. nat Gerhard Roth researches and teaches at the Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen.
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Andreas Heinz is Clinic Director at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité Berlin.
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Henrik Walter is head of the research area "Mind and Brain" at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the Charité Berlin and deputy medical director of the clinic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychoneuroscience
Editors: Gerhard Roth, Andreas Heinz, Henrik Walter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65774-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-65773-7Published: 14 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-65776-8Published: 15 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-65774-4Published: 13 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 371
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Neuropsychology