This book offers the most up-to-date information on important topics of neurobiology covering from brain development to diseases. Section A introduces the structure and development of the brain, showing how they are specialized for the functions they serve. Section B is concerned with hormones and neurotransmitters. The next section addresses the various changes related to aging. The last two sections deal with different types of brain diseases including neurodegenerative diseases. All chapters...
Neuropsychology After Lashley
In The Consequences of Determinism, originally Part Three of the single-volume hardback edition, Honderich poses the following question: if determinism is true, and free will an illusion, what are the consequences? Honderich maintains that both of the entrenched and traditional doctrines about the consequences of determinism, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, are provably false, and formulates a new answer to the question.
Vectorology for Optogenetics and Chemogenetics (Neuromethods, #195)
This volume provides an overview of the viral vectors and how they are applied to chemogenetic and optogenetic tools to the study of neural circuits. The chapters in this book are organized into three parts detailing viral vectors, vector modifications and applications, practical advice for the delivery of viral vectors, and for the verification of injection accuracy and monitoring of transgene expression. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from...
Freestyle Body Talk: Control Freak! Paperback (Body Talk)
"Raintree Freestyle" is a new, eye-catching range of colourful non-fiction books for the less able and reluctant reader, aged between 11 and 14 years old. Designed for students with a reading age of 11+, these high interest books will enable readers to encounter curriculum-linked topics at an accessible reading level. Enable your students to get to grips with the basics of human biology and be entertained in the process! With "Body Talk Freestyle", readers can find out how the body works while e...
In January 1988 a QED programme on BBC television entitled "Your Child's Diet on Trial" reported on the findings of two scientific trials on the nutrition of adolescents. These showed that giving children vitamins and mineral supplements can significantly increase their IQ and decrease their delinquent behaviour. The programme caused a great deal of controversy. Sales of vitamin pills rocketed immediately and there was a mass of press coverage. Expert nutritionists poured scorn on the findings t...
Cognitive Processes in Eye Guidance
Whether reading, looking at a picture, or driving, how is it that we know where to look next - how does the human visual system calculate where our gaze should be directed in order to achieve our cognitive aims? Of course, there is an interaction between the decisions about where we should look and about how long we should look there. However, our eyes do not just move randomly over the visual field - whether we are reading, driving, or solving a problem. There are systematic variations not only...
As an eminent scientist, Stannard agrees with the New Atheists that we cannot prove the existence of God from a study of the physical world
Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 8: Alzheimer's Disease (Evidence-Based Clinical Chinese Medicine, #8)
by Brian H May and Mei Feng
The eighth volume of Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine aims to provide a multi-faceted 'whole evidence' analysis of the management of Alzheimer's disease in Chinese and integrative medicine.Beginning with overviews of how Alzheimer's disease is conceptualised and managed in both conventional medicine and contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed analyses of how dementia and memory disorders were treated with herbal medicine and acupuncture in past eras.In the subseq...
Many people passively accept factors like diminished brain power, reduced sex drive, and the loss of youthful exuberance, even though they are only entering their forties and fifties. Dr Khalsa argues that these factors are not a natural part of growing older, He claims that our brains can be rejuvenated, and we can get back our memories, our energy, our good mood, and our youthful sex drive. When we are under stress and we "age", he claims, we naturally produce an adrenaline hormone, cortisol,...
Every hour in the UK, two people are told they have Parkinson’s disease. For Kate Swindlehurst, the diagnosis was a turning point: refusing to be defined by her condition, she chose instead a radically different path. This is the story of an extraordinary year. It begins with a single tango lesson but grows into an exploration of the dance itself, its history, its music and its incredible healing potential. It is a year in which Kate explored and documented ‘the tango effect’ – the emotional a...
Hearing (Sparklers - Senses) (Sparklers: My Senses)
by Katie Dicker
Decision Making, Affect, and Learning (Attention and Performance)
This latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly influential Attention and Performance series focuses on two of the fastest moving research areas in cognitive and affective neuroscience - decision making and emotional processing. Decision Making, Affect, and Learning investigates the psychological and neural systems underlying decision making, and the relationship with reward, affect, and learning. In addition, it considers neurodevelopmental and clinical aspects of these issues - for...
The Twenty-First Century Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition (Cognitive Systems Monographs, #41)
by Diego Azevedo Leite
This book presents a theoretical critical appraisal of the Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition (MTHC), which is one of the most popular major theories in the contemporary field of cognitive science. It analyses and evaluates whether MTHC provides a unifying account of human cognition and its explanation. The book presents a systematic investigation of the internal and external consistency of the theory, as well as a systematic comparison with other contemporary major theories in the field. In...
This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers. Drawing largely on neuroscience and philosophy, the author utilizes the scientific method and incorporates lessons learned from a vast array of sources. Based on the most recent cutting-edge scientific discoveries on the Mind-Body problem, Tomasi presents a full examination of multiple fields related to neuroscience. The volume offers a scientis...
Stellen Sie sich selbst einmal die folgende Frage: Wie hoch ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung in Ihrem Land, der 65 Jahre oder älter ist? In den 14 Ländern, in denen die Umfrage durchgeführt wurde, war die durchschnittliche Schätzung um 20 Prozent höher als der reale Anteil an der Bevölkerung. Viele Menschen meinen, wir leben in einer überalterten Gesellschaft. Das Meinungsforschungsinstitut Ipsos hat vielerlei Fragen zu verschiedenen Themen gestellt, dabei war auffällig, dass viele Ereignisse in i...
Handbook of Affective Sciences (Series in Affective Science)
The Handbook of Affective Sciences is a comprehensive road map to the burgeoning area of affective sciences, which now spans several disciplines. Helping to delineate this emerging field, this volume brings together, for the first time, the various strands of inquiry and latest research in the scientific study of emotion and related affective phenomena. In recent years, scientists have made considerable advances in understanding how brain processes shape emotions and are changed by human emoti...
23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience (Computational Neuroscience)
by Leo Van Hemmen
The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important. van Hemmen and Sejnowski invited 23 experts from the many areas-from evolution to qualia-of systems neuroscience to formulate one problem each. Although each chapter was written independently and can be read separately, together they provide a useful roadmap to the field of systems neuroscience and will serve as a source of inspirations for future explorers of the...
The aim of this book is to describe the types of computation that can be performed by biologically plausible neural networks, and to show how these may be implemented in different systems in the brain. Neural Networks and Brain Function is structured in three sections, each of which addresses a different need in the market. The first section introduces and describes the operation of several fundamental types of neural network. The second section describes real neural networks in several brain...
We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that is richer and more complex than one modality alone could achieve. As adults, we integrate the multiple signals from these sense organs into unified functional representations. However, the ease with which we accomplish this feat b...
Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
by Prof Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone