Michael R Trimble

How and Why: A Layman's Look at Causation and Reality

How and Why: A Layman's Look at Causation and Reality

Psychopharmacology of the Limbic System

Psychopharmacology of the Limbic System

New Brain Imaging Techniques in Psychopharmacology

The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy

The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy

Epilepsy and Psychiatry

Somatoform Disorders: A Medicolegal Guide

This book is an in-depth, clinically oriented review of the somatoform disorders and related clinical manifestations (such as chronic fatigue syndrome) and how they appear in a medico-legal setting. People with somatoform disorders present a range of symptoms that typically last for years and can't ...

Human Remains: Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions

This edited volume contains valuable information for museums and academic institutions concerning the care and conservation of human remains. The editors provide all the essential information required concerning the curation of human remains, from oft posed ethical questions to storage and transport...

Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which ...

Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Second Edition (Concise Guides)

Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of the brain and brain disorders, we still have much uncharted territory to explore in neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, two rapidly growing disciplines devoted to understanding the behavioral consequences of brain dysfunction and using this inf...

Biological Psychiatry

Biological psychiatry has dominated psychiatric thinking for the past 40 years, but the knowledge base of the discipline has increased substantially more recently, particularly with advances in genetics and neuroimaging. The third edition of Biological Psychiatry has been thoroughly updated taking i...

Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook (3-volume set)

Written and edited by world-renowned authorities, this three-volume work is, to quote a reviewer, "the definitive textbook about seizures and epilepsy". This Second Edition is thoroughly updated and gives you a complete print and multimedia package: the three-volume set plus access to an integrated ...

The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief

In this provocative study, Michael R. Trimble, M.D. tackles the interrelationship between brain function, language, art especially music and poetry and religion. By examining the breakdown of language in several neuropsychiatric disorders, he identifies brain circuits that are involved with metaphor...

Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which ...