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Myra Spiliopoulou

Manfred Reichert

Deborah Hall

Sven Vanneste

Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez

Christopher Cederroth

Arnaud Norena

Berthold Langguth

Winfried Schlee

Tobias Kleinung

Pim van Diijk

Grant Searchfield

Peyman Adjaminan

Rilana Cima

Birgit Mazurek

Heidi Olze

Raj Sheakhawat

Nathan Weisz

Silvano Gallus

Jianxin Bao

Antonello Maruotti

Rüdiger Pryss

Thomas Probst

Bård Støve

Tinnitus is the perception of a sound when no external sound is present. The severity of tinnitus varies but it can be debilitating for many patients. With more than 100 million people with chronic tinnitus worldwide, tinnitus is a disorder of high prevalence. The increased knowledge in the neuroscience of tinnitus has led to the emergence of promising treatment approaches, but no uniformly effective treatment for tinnitus has been identified. The large patient heterogeneity is considered to be the major obstacle for the development of effective treatment strategies against tinnitus. This eBook provides an inter- and multi-disciplinary collection of tinnitus research with the aim to better understand tinnitus heterogeneity and improve therapeutic outcomes.

Towards an Understanding of Tinnitus Heterogeneity

Johan Braeckman

Jan Verplaetse

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Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated hypotheses about the origins and nature of our moral architecture. Little by little, the concept of a ‘moral brain’ is reinstated. As the crossover between disciplines focusing on moral cognition was rather limited up to now, this book aims at filling the gap. Which evolutionary biological hypotheses provide a useful framework for starting new neurological research? How can brain imaging be used to corroborate hypotheses concerning the evolutionary background of our species? In this reader, a broad range of prominent scientists and philosophers shed their expert view on the current accomplishments and future challenges in the field of moral cognition and assess how cooperation between neurology and evolutionary psychology can boost research into the field of the moral brain.

Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

The Moral Brain

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