Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: A Comprehensive Overview

Author: Tatjana Aue

Book Description: Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurophysiological Foundations delves into the neurophysiological basis of biases in attention, interpretation, expectancy, and memory. Each chapter provides a detailed review of specific biases, encompassing both positive and negative information in healthy individuals and psychiatric populations. This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of major theories, methods employed in investigating biases, brain regions associated with each bias, and autonomic responses to specific biases. Its primary goal is to provide an extensive overview of the neural, autonomic, and cognitive mechanisms related to processing biases.

Key Features:

• Outlines neurophysiological research on diverse types of information processing bias, including attention bias, expectancy bias, interpretation bias, and memory bias.
• Discusses both normal and pathological forms of each cognitive bias.
• Provides specific examples on how to translate research on cognitive biases to clinical applications.

Publication Details:

Publisher: Elsevier Science

Publication Date: February 23, 2020

Language: English

ISBN: 9780128166604, 9780128166611