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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Experimental psychology
Mental Health in a Digital World addresses mental health
assessments and interventions using digital technology, including
mobile phones, wearable devices and related technologies. Sections
discuss mental health data collection and analysis for purposes of
assessment and treatment, including the use of electronic medical
records and information technologies to improve services and
research, the use of digital technologies to enhance communication,
psychoeducation, screening for mental disorders, the problematic
use of the internet, including internet gambling and gaming,
cybersex and cyberchondria, and internet interventions, ranging
from online psychotherapy to mobile phone apps and virtual reality
adjuncts to psychotherapy.
A rich guide for understanding the evolving research landscape in
psychology, including changes to core research ethics concepts such
as informed consent, privacy, and risk of harm. This handbook
offers a thorough and authoritative discussion of the ethical
issues in conducting research with human participants. Each chapter
poses an important ethical question, considers the relevant factors
for addressing the question, and presents guidance for
investigators. Topics include: informed consent, deception,
risk/benefit ratio, data security, authorship, conflicts of
interest, fairness and equity when collaborating with researchers
in resource-poor settings, and more. While psychological research
with humans still takes place in the investigator's laboratory and
field, there is an increasing trend toward multiple investigators
and interdisciplinary research projects owing to the complexity of
modern research questions. Furthermore, technology has changed
dramatically and affects all psychological researchers, whether
they are working individually or in large teams. With its
comprehensive scope and practical guidance, this book will serve as
an invaluable aid to understanding and navigating the ethical
challenges that confront new and seasoned researchers alike.
The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of
operation of the cerebral cortex. These principles are key to
understanding how we, as humans, function. There have been few
previous attempts to set out some of the important principles of
operation of the cortex, and this book is pioneering. The book goes
beyond separate connectional neuroanatomical, neurophysiological,
neuroimaging, neuropsychiatric, and computational neuroscience
approaches, by combining evidence from all these areas to formulate
hypotheses about how and what the cerebral cortex computes. As
clear hypotheses are needed in this most important area of 21st
century science, how our brains work, I have formulated a set of
hypotheses about the principles of cortical operation to guide
thinking and future research. The book focusses on the principles
of operation of the cerebral cortex, because at this time it is
possible to propose and describe many principles, and many are
likely to stand the test of time, and provide a foundation for
further developments, even if some need to be changed. In this
context, I have not attempted to produce an overall theory of
operation of the cerebral cortex, because at this stage of our
understanding, such a theory would be incorrect or incomplete.
However, many of the principles described will provide the
foundations for more complete theories of the operation of the
cerebral cortex. This book is intended to provide a foundation for
future understanding, and it is hoped that future work will develop
and add to these principles of operation of the cerebral cortex.
The book includes Appendices on the operation of many of the
neuronal networks described in the book, together with simulation
software written in Matlab.
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