Casting light on the dark side of brain imaging. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amir Raz, Robert T. Thibault.
• Editors: Raz, Amir; Thibault, Robert T
• Contents: 1. What any aspiring NeuroJedi should know; 2. Neuroskepticism: Questioning The Brain as Symbol and Selling-point ; 3. Brain training: Truth and fad; 4. How brain imaging takes psychiatry for a ride; 5. Cyborg brains: Can integrating mind and machine set us free?; 6. Neurofeedback: A prime placebo?; 7. Meditation is not just brain training; 8. Reverse-engineering cognition: When/where does not reveal how/why; 9. The Brain in the Classroom: The Mindless Appeal of Neuroeducation; 10. The failure of neuro-reductionism: we’re more than our brains; 11. Schizophrenic mice? The shortcomings of animal models in brain research; 12. The seductive power of neuro-arguments; 13. Neuro-placebos: when healing is a no-brainer; 14. Why brain science earns a disproportionate share of funding; 15. Secrets of the brain: most important findings to date; 16. Brain images: not the snapshots you thought they were; 17. Brain waves: how to decipher the cacophony; 18. Imaging artifacts: head motion, breathing, and other systematic confounds; 19. When the brain lies: Body posture alters neural activity; 20. The replication crisis: Brain imaging is next; 21. The deceiving power of small samples; 22. Will higher-tech scanners solve our problems?; 23. Can we zap the brain better?; 24. The shift from cognitive psychology to network science; 25. The ethics of imaging brains; 26. Beyond the brain: Towards an integrative cross-discipline understanding of human behavior; 27. Breakthroughs to come: the future of brain imaging
• Publisher Details: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.82; Brain -- Imaging; Neurosciences; MEDICAL / Physiology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128163092; 0128163097
• Related ISBNs: 9780128161791
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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