Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain I
Neurobiology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The discovery of adult neurogenesis caused a paradigm shift in the neurosciences. For more than 100 years, it was believed that adult neurons do not regenerate. Joseph Altman and Fernando Nottebohm found proof to the contrary and changed the course of history. Their research, included here, provides...
Vital Models
The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The use of models has been important to the historical and contemporary study of the human brain, yet very little study by social scientists has been dedicated to how the brain sciences develop and use models to better understand what brains are and how they work, including the complex entanglements...
Optogenetics
Light-Sensing Proteins and Their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The subject of optogenetics is comprehensively covered in this book, including physical, chemical, and biological topics of light-sensing proteins and their application in biological systems, particularly in neuroscience and medicine and the related opto-electronics. Optogenetics is a new technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The rapid progress of neuroscience in the last decade can be largely attributed to significant advances in neuroethology, a branch of science that seeks to understand the neural basis of natural animal behavior. Novel approaches including molecular biological techniques, optical recording methods,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Dendrites are complex neuronal structures that receive and integrate synaptic input from other nerve cells. They therefore play a critical role in brain function. Although dendrites were discovered over a century ago, due to the development of powerful new techniques there has been a dramatic resurgence...
Addiction and Choice
Rethinking the relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. For much of the previous century and until the present day, the majority of scientific and medical attempts to solve this problem were couched in terms of involuntary behaviour;...
Breathe, Walk and Chew
The Neural Challenge: Part I
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
This volume focuses on the interplay of mind and motion-the bidirectional link between thought and action. In particular, it investigates the implications that this coupling has for decision making. How do we anticipate the consequences of choices and how is the brain able to represent these choice...
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists
Proceedings of the First International Early Research Career Enhancement School (FIERCES 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book presents cutting-edge research focused on current challenges towards the realization of Biologically Inspired intelligent agents, or Cognitive Architectures (BICA). The chapters are written by both world-recognized experts (including Antonio Chella, Olivier Georgeon, Oliver Kutz, Antonio...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 (June 24-27, 2008; São Luís, Brazil) brought together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, syntactic and computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems and, specifically, of the brain, and to...
by Christoph Börgers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This book is intended as a text for a one-semester course on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students of mathematics, the natural sciences, engineering, or computer science. An undergraduate introduction to differential equations...
by Charles Watson, George Paxinos, AO (BA
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates Compact, Seventh Edition is a smaller sized (8.5 x 11inch), abridged version of the most referenced work in neuroscience (over 35,000 citations). The compact edition provides the coronal plates and diagrams of the current seventh edition in a smaller, more...
Sleep and Anesthesia
Neural Correlates in Theory and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Sleep and anesthesia resemble in many ways at a first glance. The most prominent common feature of course is the loss of consciousness, i.e. the loss of awareness of external stimuli. However a closer look at the loss of consciousness reveals already a difference between sleep and anesthesia: anesthesia...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).
In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a...
Circuits in the Brain
A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Dr. Charles Legéndy’s Circuits in the Brain: A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex is published at a time marked by unprecedented advances in experimental brain research which are, however, not matched by similar advances in theoretical insight. For this reason, the timing is...