Neuroscience category: 1433 books
The Three-Pound Enigma
The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
The average human brain weighs three pounds—80 percent of which is water—and yet it's capable of outstripping the computational and storage capacities of the most complex computer. But how the mind works remains one of humankind's greatest mysteries.
With boundless curiosity and enthusiasm,...
Surfing Uncertainty
Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence...
Intelligence in the Flesh
Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you’d better think again—or rather not “think” at all. In his provocative new book, Guy Claxton draws on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to reveal how our bodies—long...
Explaining Abnormal Behavior
A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior. Bruce Pennington draws on work from multiple disciplines to identify compelling links among psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Neuromechanics is a new, quickly growing field of neuroscience research that merges neurophysiology, biomechanics and motor control and aims at understanding living systems and their elements through interactions between their neural and mechanical dynamic properties. Although research in Neuromechanics...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Due to the recent explosion of placebo research at many levels the Editors believe that a volume on Placebo would be a good addition to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology series. In particular, this volume will be built up on a meeting on Placebo which will be held in Tuebingen (Germany)...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
As research has progressed, the cannabinoid CB 1 and CB 2 receptors have expanded significantly in importance within the neuroscience mainstream. In The Cannabinoid Receptors, leading experts introduce newcomers to the cannabinoid field with chapters covering cannabinoid ligand synthesis and structure...
Highly Selective Neurotoxins
Basic and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997
Expert researchers critically review and evaluate the most common and important neurotoxins used today in neuroscience research. Each informative chapter thoroughly describes the significant mechanisms of action of a neurotoxin, as well as fully discussing the limits on their use and their clinical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Astrocytes were the original neuroglia that Ramón y Cajal visualized in 1913 using a gold sublimate stain. This stain targeted intermediate filaments that we now know consist mainly of glial fibrillary acidic protein, a protein used today as an astrocytic marker. Cajal described the morphological...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Recent studies have provided clear evidence on the role of neural-immune interactions in normal brain function and neuropathological conditions. Neuroimmune factors, which play an essential role in neuroinflammatory response, have been implicated in the regulation of neuronal function and plasticity....
Orexin and Sleep
Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
This volume is intended for neuropharmacologists, psychopharmacologists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, sleep researchers, translational neuroscience researchers, and other basic researchers and clinical scientists interested in an interdisciplinary approach to sleep medicine. The level of the book...
Neuroeconomics
Decision Making and the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
Neuroeconomics is a new highly promising approach to understanding the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. This book is the first edited reference to examine the science behind neuroeconomics, including how it influences...
by Javier De Felipe, Fernando de Castro, Miguel A Merchán
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Cajal and De Castro's Neurohistological Methods provides the first English translation of Fernando de Castro's 1933 publication "Elementos de Técnica Micrográfica del Sistema Nervioso." A student of the famed founder of modern neuroscience, with Santiago Ramon y Cajal also serving as the Editor...
The Olfactory System
From Odor Molecules to Motivational Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This book summarizes recent advances in understanding of the mammalian and fish olfactory system and provides perspective on the translation of external odor information into appropriate motivational and behavioral responses. Following the discovery of the odorant receptor gene family in 1991, understanding...