'A lively examination of communal endeavour... important and correct' - Steven Poole, The GuardianAt a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them.So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish and boost group thinking?Neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Science of Fate Hannah Critchlow shows how two heads can be better than one. Almost everything we've ever achieved has been done by groups working together, sometimes across time a...
Prion-related diseases, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are infectious, fatal neurodegenerative disorders for which there is no cure, treatment, nor even a means for early diagnosis. The horrific advent of Mad Cow Disease -- transmitted to humans through eating meat from steers sickened by bovine spongiform encephalopathy --brought prion-related diseases international attention. Exceptionally dramatic, these diseases progressively and inexorably destroy the cognitive,...
The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology, Part B (Methods in Cell Biology, #134)
This volume of Methods in Cell Biology, the second of two parts on the subject of zebrafish, provides a comprehensive compendium of laboratory protocols and reviews covering all the new methods developed since 1999.
New Neuroethology on the Move
Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a "neural turn," in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education, history, law, sociology, and theology. Dubious but successful commercial enterprises such as "neuromarketing" and "neurobics" have emerged to take advantage of the height...
Joseph Le Doux believes that the synapses - the little spaces between the neurons in our brains - are the key to everything the brain does. They are the channels of communication by which we think, act, imagine, feel and remember. But synapses do more. They also allow interactions between mental processes, allowing us to remember the important stuff in life better than the trivial. What's more, synapses encode the essence of the individual, allowing us to be the same person from moment to moment...
Handbook for the Brain Dynamics Toolbox
by Michael Breakspear and Stewart Heitmann
Summarizes, for the benefit of research workers in the field of cellular and molecular neurobiology, the large volume of work done during the last two decades on cholinergic function utilizing as a model system the electromotor innervation of the electric ray Torpedo . Largely as a result of work wi
Psychological Science and Christian Faith
by Malcolm A Jeeves and Thomas E Ludwig
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of 'mindsight', the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Using case histories from his practice, Dr Siegel shows how we can focus our attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring of our brain and allow us to break free from harmful patterns of behaviour.
Ay's Neuroanatomy of C. Elegans for Computation
by Theodore B. Achacoso and W.S. Yamamoto
AY's Neuroanatomy of C. elegans for Computation provides the neural circuitry database of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, both in printed form and in ASCII files on 5.25-inch diskettes (for use on IBM (R) and compatible personal computers, Macintosh (R) computers, and higher level machines). Tables of connections among neuron classes, synapses among individual neurons, gap junctions among neurons, worm cells and their embryonic origin, and synthetically derived neuromuscular connections are...
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think. Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask ourselves...
Guia ilustrado de neuroanatomia
by Bento João G a Abreu, Edgard Morya, and Instituto Santos Dumont
Neurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications explores the dramatic impact of advances in neuroscience research and practice to our present understanding of criminality and crime control. Contemporary, cutting-edge research in neuroscience is cited and explained. Studies and cases are clearly and concisely outlined with potential uses for practical applications detailed. This will be framed in the context of criminological foundations, theory, and the notion of th...
Visual and Hearing Information Science
This volume introduces the mechanisms of sight and hearing, cognition and movement, centred round the results of Advanced Telecommunication research and development. It provides an understanding of the latest results of research in the field - such as the Japanese results in various areas of Information Science research. The first part of the book contains a general overview of the features of human information processing and memory research in the field of neural science. Part Two touches upon...
Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you're remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they lost forever? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in "Memory: Fragments of a Modern History...