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Nan A. Talese, 2002

Beautifully written and illustrated!
Todd Shimoda's "The Fourth Treasure" is simply the most beautiful book to come across my desk in years. The story is innovative and inventive, and the illustrations add depth and insight to the narrative of old cultures, new science and human striving. The Shimodas (L.J.C. Shimoda, Todd's wife, illustrated the book with her beautiful calligraphy and abstract work) have created a work of art that ...

The Chemical Languages of the Nervous System: History of Scientists And Substances
Josef Donnerer, Fred Lembeck

S. Karger AG (Switzerland), 2006

Neurochemical transmission accounts for the majority of information transfer both in the central and peripheral nervous system. The initial findings centred around the experimental work of the two Nobel Prize winners Sir Henry H. Dale and Otto Loewi as well as Wilhelm Feldberg. Their historical findings opened the door to further investigations and extended the list of neurotransmitters to many others such as amino acids, peptides, ...

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, and Paul Ricoeur. What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about ...
Paul Gyllenhammer

Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 2003

This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 627 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Changeux, Jean-Pierre, ...

Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be ...

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Susan Blackmore

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Controversies in consciousness studies
What is the problem of consciousness? Are zombies (creatures that look and act like humans but who have no consciousness) theoretically possible? Does consciousness survive death? Is there such a thing as free will? These are the types of questions Susan Blackmore poses to twenty-one experts, who come from neuroscience, philosophy and psychology, and who are all involved in the ...

How do Brains Work ? Papers of a Comparative Neurophysiologist: SELECTED WORKS (Contemporary Neuroscientists)

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BULLOCK

Birkhauser, 1993

Bullock's best works
Many of T.H. Bullock's most interesting works, reprinted and discussed, somewhat. For example, the article by Perkel, D.H., Schulman, J.H., Bullock, T.H., Moore, G.P. and Segundo, J.P., Pacemaker Neurons: Effects of Regularly Spaced Synaptic Input, Science, vol. 145, pp. 61-63, July 3, 1964, is reprinted here. Subthreshold oscillatory potentials have been hypothesized to generate a temporal ...

Consciousness in the raw: the brain stem may orchestrate the basics of awareness.(hydranencephaly and other ...
Bruce Bower

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Thomson Gale on September 15, 2007. The length of the article is 2294 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Consciousness in the raw: the brain stem may ...

Billy's Halo: Love, Science and My Father's Death

1 review
Ruth McKernan

Joseph Henry Press, 2006

A Remarkably Fine Book
Ruth McKernan has written a moving book on the death of her father. She does this both as someone who sees what is happening as a clear-eyed scientist and as a devoted daughter. She has produced a remarkably fine book, we are all in her debt.

Burlesque Queen/Neuroscientist: The Genius Junkie
Pamela Coscia

1st Books Library, 2001

I am babylon riding the beast, 666, as an X-rated model and actress, a burlesque queen, a prostitute, a drug addict, a mental patient, a nueroscrientist, inlcuding my relationships with 4 men , myself being a hierophant, (manifestation of the sacred).

Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power
Kelly Lambert

Basic Books, 2008

Today’s young adults are up to ten times more likely to experience depression than their grandparents were. Could it be that in our increasingly automated world, the reduced physical effort needed to accomplish anything may somehow interfere with our level of happiness and subsequent responses to stress? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds compelling evidence that having to work hard for rewards significantly improves mood and prevents ...

Neuroanatomy for the Neuroscientist
Stanley Jacobson, Elliott M. Marcus

Springer, 2008

In this day where research grants are the primary focus, many young investigators are thrown into neurosciences courses without any prior preparation in neuroanatomy. This book is designed to help prepare them by introducing many of the fundamentals of the nervous system. It represents the essentials of an upper level biology course on the central nervous system. It is not designed to be a clinical approach to the nervous system, but rather it ...

Neuroembryology: The Selected Papers (Contemporary Neuroscientists)

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Viktor Hamburger

Birkhauser, 1990

Neuroembryology from A-to-Z
If you are interested in the recent history of neuroembryology, this is a great place to start. A collection of Hamburger's papers that is invaluable to the scientist interested in this feild. This book spans much of Dr Hamburger's career and provides a sampling of his primary publication literature detailing his many nerve cord transplantation studies. Additionally, this volume includes ...

Neurophysics of Consciouness: NEUROSCIENCE (Contemporary Neuroscientists)
LIBET

Birkhäuser Boston, 1993

Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently
Gregory, Ph.D. Berns

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

The Laboratory Computer: A Practical Guide for Physiologists and Neuroscientists (Biological Techniques ...
John Dempster

Academic Press, 2001

The Laboratory Computer: A Practical Guide for Physiologists and Neuroscientists introduces the reader to both the basic principles and the actual practice of recording physiological signals using the computer. It describes the basic operation of the computer, the types of transducers used to measure physical quantities such as temperature and pressure, how these signals are amplified and converted into digital form, and the mathematical ...

In search of creativity: in an excerpt from The Creating Brain, a leading neuroscientist explores the role of ...
Nancy Andreasen

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from Saturday Evening Post, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2572 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: In search of creativity: in an excerpt from ...

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