Fundamentals of Health Neuroscience / Yi-Yuan Tang and Rongxiang Tang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Yi-Yuan, author.

Tang, Rongxiang, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Academic Press, [2024]

Summary:

Health Neuroscience is a new interdisciplinary field encompassing research from cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience, health psychology, physical and mental health, and science of behavior change. This new field addresses the longstanding gap among neuroscience, health and behavior change within the context of health promotion. Fundamentals of Health Neuroscience explores key topics and research, including basic principles, psychological and neural processes, brain and body interaction, and gene x brain x environment interactions. This book will also cover prevention and intervention strategies for health decisions and promotion across the lifespan. Chapters will integrate the latest research findings and explore several key topics, such as: How does the brain serve both as a predictor and an outcome of health? How can people improve self-control and achieve physical and mental health? What does brain plasticity and resilience tell us about learning and development throughout our life? How is the sense of meaning in life affected by dopamine and reward systems in the brain?- Introduces a new interdisciplinary field of Health Neuroscience including its basic and translational research and applications- Reviews current research on biomarkers of brain health and aging- Discusses brain-body connection and health behavior change

Contents:

Front Cover

Fundamentals of Health Neuroscience

Copyright

Contents

Author biographies

1 - Introduction

Health neuroscience

Brain serves as a predictor of health

Brain serves as an outcome of health

Brain-body interaction and health

Science of behavior change

Integrative health model

Promoting integrative health through evidence-based integrative body-mind interventions

Health neuroscience methodologies

EEG and fMRI neurofeedback

What factors affect the neurofeedback learning process and outcomes?

Implicit learning during neurofeedback training

Simultaneous real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback

Brain region versus connectivity-based neurofeedback

Individual differences and precision health

Individualized real-time fMRI neurofeedback

Precision nutrition

An overview of chapters

Conclusions and future directions

References

2 - Brain development and health

Brain cortices and development

Brain structural development

Brain functional development

Brain development and disorders

Brain development, environment, and experience

Socioeconomic status

Early-life adversity and stress

Environmental enrichment

Brain development and cognitive health

Brain development and mental health

Prevention and intervention for brain development and health

Summary and discussion

Outstanding questions

3 - Genetics, brain, and health

Genes and alleles

Methodological approaches for studying genes

Genes and brain

Genes and health

Cognitive health

Mental health

Epigenetics and intergenerational transmission

Epigenetics and health

Genetic mutations and health

4 - Stress response, resilience, and brain.

The stress, stress symptoms, and brain

Stress and neuroinflammation

Neuroinflammation and interventions

Dual-hormone modulation

Subjective and objective stress assessments

Stress resilience

Components of stress resilience

How to build stress resilience

Mindset changes and placebo effects

Relationships between mindset and placebo effects

Neuroscience of mindset and placebo effects

Cognitive reappraisal and dissonance

Cognitive reappraisal and beliefs

Emotional beliefs matter

Cognitive dissonance and stress

Cognitive dissonance and clinical applications

Developing social connections

Self-awareness and stress resilience

Effective strategies for stress management and resilience

5 - Brain, body, and health

Theories and mechanisms of mind-body interaction

Gut-brain axis

Gut-brain axis and early development

Gut-brain axis and stress

Gut-brain axis in diseases

Brain and heart connection

Brain and body connection

Brain and body aging

Brain and body aging, and other factors

6 - Mindset, social brain, and health

Mindsets and health

Mindset intervention procedure

Social support, loneliness, and health

Learning is enhanced by social interaction

Social isolation, loneliness, and health

Brain, isolation, and loneliness

Coping with social rejection and loneliness

Technology, human behavior, and health

Technology changes our brain/mind and lifestyle

Technology changes our relationships and ourselves

The challenge of being alone

Sensory overload

How to cope with an overload of information?

The balance between technology and human beings

7 - Health behavior change and habit formation.

Science of behavior change

Stages of change model

Social cognitive theory

Dual-process theory

Health behavior change

Habit and habit formation

Why do we need habits?

Why bad habits are difficult to break?

Understanding habits and underlying brain mechanisms

Habits and unconscious processes

Automaticity, habits, and effortless training

Attention habit and behavior change

Health behavior interventions

Promoting behavior change and habit formation through mindfulness practice

How to practice mindfulness efficiently?

Predictive coding, interoception, and behavior change

8 - Brain plasticity for health promotion

Theories and mechanisms of brain plasticity

Neurogenesis in the adult brain

Learning, memory, and brain plasticity in animals

Experience-dependent brain structural plasticity in human

Experience-dependent brain functional plasticity in human

Brain plasticity, injuries, and diseases

Interventions to promote brain plasticity and health

9 - Brain health and aging

Aging and basic mechanisms

Cognitive and brain aging

Pathological aging in cognition and brain

Modifiable risk factors for dementia

Superaging and superagers

Advances in clinical diagnosis and treatment of dementia

10 - Preventions and interventions for health promotion

Health promotion

Prevention and interventions

Physical exercise or activity

New target on the fascia during physical exercise

Fascia damage and plasticity

Fascial manipulation technique

Mindfulness meditation

Mental processes during mindfulness meditation

Different stages of mindfulness meditation

The 10,000-hour rule.

Effortful and effortless training

Bodifulness (bodyfulness)

Attention balance state

Learning effortless strategy from the beginning

Reducing polysubstance use using mindfulness intervention

Neuromodulation

Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback procedures

Neurofeedback and ADHD

Neurofeedback intervention in ADHD

Neurofeedback networks

Combining mindfulness meditation and neurofeedback

State training and network training

Effortless mindfulness practice-A practical example

11 - Individual differences and health

The study of individual differences

Individual differences in personality and health

Individual differences in states and health

Individual differences in brain and health

Individual differences in disease and health

12 - Integrative health model

Current status of conventional medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine

Self-care

Self-care domains and practices

From allopathic medicine to integrative medicine

Self-control in self-care

Self-balance

Self-care activities

Index

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Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-443-15603-4