Roth Gerhard, Heinz Andreas, Walter Henrik (eds.) Psychoneuroscience

Springer, 2023. — 1249 p. — ISBN 978-3-662-65774-4.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.The Search for the Nature of the Soul
The Functional Neuroanatomy of the Limbic System
Neuro- and Psychopharmacology
Neurophysiology
Developmental Neurobiology
Emotion, Motivation, Personality and Their Neurobiological Foundations
Neurobiological Consequences of Early Life Stress
Psychological and Neurobiological Foundations of Consciousness
Nature, Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders
Psyche and Mental Illness: Addiction
Psychotic Disorders (“Schizophrenia”)
Affective Disorders Using the Example of Unipolar Depression
Anxiety Disorders
Neuropsychotherapy: Psychotherapy Methods and Their Effect
Psychoneuroscience and Its Relevance for Practice