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u/marcusesses · 3 pointsr/Neuropsychology

Yes, I am most definitely down with that.

I'm also not sure how books would be discussed either. I usually have a hard time critiquing neuropsychology-type books since I am not really qualified to determine whether the results are based on sound methodology.

Perhaps if it was like a seminar, where we all pick a book to read, and start an open thread where people can post opinions and questions and we can all try to answer them or post relevant hard science (or other) related articles.

I'm not sure about the logistics, but maybe post an announcement for the book, then give people 2 weeks or whatever to read it, then start another thread for discussion? (Or, even better...write the current book-club selection in the side-bar)...and put a common title on all discussion threads so they are easily searchable.

Here are my suggestions for books (suggested mostly because I own them already):

How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer

The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (not really neuropsych, but has some neuropsychy ideas)

Why Don't Students Like School - Daniel Willingham (you convinced me to buy this book a couple weeks ago, and I'd love to discuss it more. I might write a review over at the subreddit I moderate [/shameless plug]).

EDIT: Maybe you could cross-post it as a "course" at the University of Reddit for more exposure? "Introduction to Popular Psychology" or something...

u/xarkonnen · 5 pointsr/Neuropsychology

/r/musiccognition welcomes you, friend. Also I'd suggest this book on music emotions topic David Huron - Sweet Anticipation. Music and the Psychology of Expectation.

u/falstaf · 4 pointsr/Neuropsychology

A general literature review is a good place to start. Keep your eye out for meta-analyses in particular. TBI in general (and especially mTBI) is such a hot button topic it should be easy to come up with information about mTBI and cognition in civilians. If you want to extend this to include Veteran's, I'd recommend including terms such as "blast injury" in your search terms. google scholar is a great general resource if your university databases are not panning out easily. If you can find articles but can't access them due to paywalls, there are ways to get around those that I won't mention here as they are illegal (but easy enough to find if you do a google search).

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Putting aside the research articles, Michael McCrea put out an excellent book addressing the current state of the field regarding mTBI, PCS, and treatment recommendations.

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If you are looking for Veteran specific recommendations, that may be a little tricky. Some VA's have more treatment options/better treatment programs than others, and some list these resources on their websites. Peruse some VA's located in larger cities (Boston, San Francisco, LA/San Diego, etc.) and look over their websites for possible options. Some of the Veteran's advocacy groups may also have resources.

u/moonrainbow · 2 pointsr/Neuropsychology

Methodology-wise, Steve Luck has a really nice, clear introductory text to ERP techniques.

u/Shanoony · 2 pointsr/Neuropsychology

There are a few coloring books that do this pretty well if you’re into that. This is a pretty popular one.

u/subtextual · 5 pointsr/Neuropsychology

These sound like pretty normal hynagogic hallucinations to me (they do not have to be associated with any sleep paralysis).

However, I am not an MD and do not specialize in sleep disorders. A sleep study as others have suggested is a good idea... since you're in the Boston area, here are the major sleep centers in Boston, and here is a website where you can search for other accredited sleep centers.

I also second the recommendation for Sack's book Hallucinations to get some probably-reassuring perspective on how common hallucinations really are.

As for the 3AM thing, it's likely just coincidence (and your mind 'dismissing' times when you've woken at times other than 3AM), but another thing to check is if there is something that is happening routinely at 3AM that might be waking you. As a kid I always thought it was weird that I woke up at 2:14 every night, until I finally figured out that this was the exact time that a really loud cargo plane flew over my house every night (lived by the airport). Maybe a train going past, or a neighbor leaving for their morning shift, or the heat clicking on in your building, etc. More plausible explanation than the supernatural, at least! ;)

u/akwakeboarder · 3 pointsr/Neuropsychology

There are two great books that talk about exactly this.

  1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind which focuses on social issues.

  2. Story of the Human Body which focuses on biology and medical issues.
u/ShaShaBooey · 3 pointsr/Neuropsychology

Eric Kandel's Principles of Neural Science would be a great starting point.

u/Zephryl · 2 pointsr/Neuropsychology

Blumenfeld's Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases is the classic text, and deservedly so.

The Human Brain Coloring Book is a fun, but surprisingly educational and detailed, resource.

u/punninglinguist · 6 pointsr/Neuropsychology

I think the modern classic on ERPs is considered to be Steve Luck's book. I can vouch that it's an excellent book.

I can't help you with non-event-related EEG, though.

u/chillage · 3 pointsr/Neuropsychology

I would recommend this great book http://www.amazon.com/Hallucinations-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0307957241

It should alleviate your worries about whether what's going on is something exceptionally unusual. Particularly there are a couple chapters in there devoted to various hallucinations around sleep. You'll find that these things, while not common, are not entirely uncommon either

u/soynut · 1 pointr/Neuropsychology

Might be more than you need, but if the places to which you're applying really expect you to be on top of neuropsych tests, check out the [Compendium] (http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Neuropsychological-Tests-Administration-Commentary/dp/0195159578).

u/adadglgmatt · 3 pointsr/Neuropsychology

The lab I am working in uses ERPs for studying language development. One noteworthy ERP is the N400 in language or semantics.

Given a control stimulus of language that is typical, i.e. shown the sentence "The dog barks", the ERP for that stimulus over the left temporal lobe is expected to be unremarkable. If you throw in an unexpected element to the sentence, i.e. "The dog quacks", you can see an increase in negative potential around 400 ms after the stimulus. The N400 is canonically associated with the participant processing unexpected stimulus.

A good book to read on ERPs and other kinds of EEG work is Analyzing Neural Time Series Data. The author goes into ERPs and Time Frequency Analysis for EEG data. The book is also very approachable from multiple disciplines or levels of understanding.

u/Taome · 1 pointr/Neuropsychology

You might want to read more deeply into the notion that reason and emotion are "easily separated." See, e.g,

Robert Burton (neuroscientist), On Being Certain (see also this for a short intro to Burton's book)

Antonio Damasio (neuroscientist), Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain and The Feeling of What Happens

u/[deleted] · 6 pointsr/Neuropsychology

First - don't promote your website here, mysticpolitics, especially after copying an article from another site (obviously you want hits - fuck you). At least change your screen name for practical purposes. And this isn't a mystical matter, nor politics.

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For someone with so much experience in the field, I am surprised by Nigel Barber's lack of understanding of this subject. Then again, the article is such a cursory run at addressing this issue, and provides nothing new, or well-informed, to a point that I think he just shot out a shit article for the sake of vomiting his thoughts somewhere. Adaptionist theories of religious cognition, as opposed to theories of its being a by-product (exaptation), have bore little evidence in both anthropological and psychological literature. Furthermore, this God spot has not been observed to have any natural onset of its function other than that identified via artificial stimulation. Even then, something having such a relevant function doesn't mean it was selected for; Was susceptibility to psychoactives selected for? Was the ability to play the chocking game selected for due to the nature of some people's dreams? How about sleep paralysis? It is just as likely that systems built to process other minds are inadvertently activated by other processes, as they take such a primary role in our thought.

Can we also remember that for something to be selected, alternative genetic structures must die off or fail to reproduce. Also, mutations aren't robust, they don't overnight become autonomous modules like this 'God spot'. So, you're saying people who didn't have slight variation in their ability to randomly have spiritual insight either (a) died off from threatening causes, or (b) were not attractive to mates? Are you fucking kidding me? You study evolutionary psychology, man, come on. Read some damn evolutionary biology for a change.

—Regardless of arguments though, I just want to point out that this is a shit article, I looked at the rest of his work - solid stuff. Don't put this crap out there, don't make such huge claims before reading background literature, especially if you're in the field.

Now, some fun resources for everyone to go be happy and read about what I'd call the most exciting corner of research outside of empathy! Goodies for everyone (buy the first three books, they'll change your lives):

Religion Explained (exaptation/by-product cognitive view)

Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (more concise cognitive view, very accessible to the non-psychologist, very short)

Darwin's Cathedral (Adaptionist, group selection view)

Adaptations, Exaptations, & Spandrels

u/memento22mori · -1 pointsr/Neuropsychology

I'm not sure how much any particular neuropsychologist could help you because of all of the factors involved, so I wanted to suggest much less expensive but lesser known options which you may want to pursue whether or not you visit the neuropsychologist first. I know that even a single session of certain kinds of testing can cost thousands of dollars even with insurance. As soillogical suggested a "history of anxiety/depression makes one far more susceptible to developing chronic pain" and this is what my final paragraph of this long post is about. And like Daannii mentioned, CBT can certainly help you as well, it's one of the most efficient treatments for anxiety and depression, as well as many other conditions involving conditioned/learned responses or whatnot.

I have scoliosis as well, it's not very bad, but I get lower back pain- especially in the winter and for the last 10 years or so I've had chronic hamstring pain which feels sort of like acid on the muscle. I was in a bad accident 13 years ago where I was hit by a large AC van and ended up with brain swelling and I was in a coma for a week, I had bad vertigo and a horrible sense of balance. My friend is a personal trainer and he recently suggested that I go see a Neuro Kinesiologist, NKT is a "body work method that can be used both as an assessment tool and as a rehabilitative technique. It gets to the root of chronic and acute muscular tightness and pain, relieving it through working with the motor control center (MCC) of the brain itself in the cerebellum." My NKP practitioner told me that most people with scoliosis have some degree of dysfunction in their diaphragm which can lead to multiples problems, one of which I'll describe below.

I've only been two one appointment so far, but it's not something where they want to see you a bunch of times or anything like that, I found a NKT practitioner at the link below and went in to see her, she works at a Physical Therapy/Orthopedic Center and is a DPT, PT, and OCS:
http://neurokinetictherapy.com/certified-practitioners
The first appointment was $70 and lasted about an hour and a half, they did several exercises to test muscle groups, the main one was some variation of the therapist attempting to lift my legs while I was laying on a table- my goal was to resist by contracting my leg muscles and pushing downward. She did this with me breathing normal first, and then the same thing while I was holding my breath after an exhale, and then holding my breath with full lungs- it was easy for her to lift my legs in all cases except when I had full lungs. This meant that I was using my diaphragm to provide stability to my body whereas I should have been using my core muscles in my abs and back. She then began to examine my diaphragm for tension, I believe it was but probably something else too.

There's probably tons of other issues that NKT can examine/diagnose, but the way she explained my issue was essentially your body is constantly balancing itself and making minor adjustments multiple times a second, but your brain doesn't tell every muscle exactly what to do every millisecond- instead your body learns patterns of movement, or whatnot, and your brain sends balance signals down to the lower body, if for some reason the appropriate muscles don't act as they should (usually one or more of the core muscles) and provide the needed balance and stability then muscles which aren't properly equipped will have to pick up the slack. In my case my abdominus rectus and multifidus in the lower back weren't activating properly so my hip flexors and part of my upper legs is being overworked much of the time. She explained a diaphragm release stretch and gave me three exercises to do after the stretch twice a day, I've been doing the exercises for over a week now and they are very challenging. What seems to have happened is after the car accident my muscles were forced to deal with much worse balance, and vertigo and double-vision at the time, than ever before so they dealt with the issue but not in the best way possible and 99.999% of physical therapists aren't trained in NKT (which was made in the mid-1980s) so they weren't looking for particular issues, they were just training me to walk again on the macro level.

Keep in mind that all of the above is based on my understanding after a single session of NKT, so it may not be exactly right, but the main thing is an NKT practitioner can diagnose issues which even surgeons and other specialists aren't looking for and in many cases aren't even familiar with. Even if you never go back to the NKT specialist again just doing the exercises will help your issue, I'm going back in about two weeks to check my progress and make sure I'm doing the exercises correctly but this isn't required so you're not going to be out much money my checking into this.

This is unrelated to the above post, but I think both of these recommendations can help you, as to which one would help you more I can't say but I am confident that one of them will help you quite a bit. This is a really good book by the Dr. that treated Howard Stern for chronic back pain which he had always thought was from sitting for many hours a day in a chair over several decades while doing radio shows and writing/etc [The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders](http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0061174300?psc=1&redirect=true&ref
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He found that the unconscious mind can oftentimes make pain worse if not cause the pain altogether as a way to attempt to distract the conscious mind from serious emotional pain which may be completely repressed or the person may seem glimpses of it on occasion.