Social and Affective Neuroscience of Gaming

This book delves into the fascinating intersection of video gaming, social dynamics, and affective neuroscience, offering a comprehensive exploration of how gaming impacts the brain, influences social interactions, and shapes emotional experiences. From unravelling the neurobiological mechanisms underlying gaming behavior to examining its implications for mental well-being and public health, Social and Affective Neuroscience of Gaming provides invaluable insights for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. With a focus on practical applications, this book equips readers with the knowledge and strategies needed to promote healthy gaming behaviors and enhance mental well-being on both individual and societal levels.

Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction

This Open Access book presents the current state of the art knowledge on social and affective neuroscience based on empirical findings. This volume is divided into several sections first guiding the reader through important theoretical topics within affective neuroscience, social neuroscience and moral emotions, and clinical neuroscience. Each chapter addresses everyday social interactions and various aspects of social interactions from a different angle taking the reader on a diverse journey. The last section of the book is of methodological nature. Basic information is presented for the reader to learn about common methodologies used in neuroscience alongside advanced input to deepen the understanding and usability of these methods in social and affective neuroscience for more experienced readers.

2025

2022

Global Mental Health in the Digital Age: Towards Equity in Care, Research and Education

Published

Coming soon

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming mental health care, research, and education worldwide. Bringing together leading international experts, this volume explores artificial intelligence, telehealth, digital interventions, education, ethics, and implementation science through a global lens. Rather than focusing only on innovation, the book emphasizes equity, accessibility, and responsible adoption across diverse health systems, providing an essential resource for researchers, clinicians, educators, and policymakers shaping the future of global digital mental health.

This book argues that mental health is a foundational condition for sustainable development rather than simply an outcome of it. Integrating insights from global mental health, sustainability science, environmental psychology, and public policy, it presents a new framework explaining how psychological well-being influences resilience, collective action, and long-term societal change. By positioning mental health as a cross-cutting dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals, the book offers researchers, policymakers, and practitioners a new perspective on building healthier, more resilient, and more sustainable societies.

Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development: Why Mental Health Matters for Sustainability Transitions

A nova ciência do Bem-estar

This book (first designed to be published in portuguese/Brazil) challenges the traditional view that mental health is simply the absence of mental illness. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, public health, and environmental science, it proposes a new framework in which well-being emerges from the interaction of biological, social, environmental, and institutional conditions. Accessible to a broad audience while grounded in cutting-edge research, the book offers a new vision for understanding, measuring, and building mental health in individuals, communities, and society as a whole.

Routledge

Edward Elgar

Planeta