Neuroscience category: 1433 books
by Gordon M. Shepherd MD, DPhil
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth century,...
by Michael O'Shea
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses...
Autopilot
The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
"A tour de force of an academic field that doesn't really exist just yet the science of being idle. Andrew Smart synthesizes a whole range of cutting-edge ideas in neuroscience, dynamic systems theory, psychology, literature, pop culture, and philosophy, and gives us a hugely entertaining read about...
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
A Life in Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.
In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the...
The Neuroscientific Turn
Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of...
In the Mind Fields
Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain.”
“I’d never been a science person,” Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching...
Rewriting the American Soul
Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects...
What Your Body Knows About God
How We Are Designed to Connect, Serve and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Have you ever had an experience where you felt particularly aware of God? If God is real, and we are created in God's image, then it makes sense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive ability to sense and experience God. Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies...
The Man Who Wasn't There
Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
***Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award*
*An NBC News Notable Science Book of 2015*
*Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015*
*A Book of the Month for Brain HQ/Posit Science*
*Selected by Forbes as a Must Read Brain Book of 2015*
*On Life Changes Network’s...
The Secret Life of the Mind
How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.
Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international...
Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, A Companion Volume
Advanced Topics, Nonlinear Techniques and Multi-Channel Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The popularity of signal processing in neuroscience is increasing, and with the current availability and development of computer hardware and software, it is anticipated that the current growth will continue. Because electrode fabrication has improved and measurement equipment is getting less expensive,...
by Dr.Katie Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
YOUR BRAIN: Why do we have emotions? What is creativity? Do we have free will? Why do we have dreams? Where do memories go? How do we learn and how can neuroscience teach us to improve or enhance our minds? 100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less explores neuroscience, biology, and psychology...
Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans
Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This compelling volume provides a broad and accessible overview on the rapidly developing field of social neuroscience. A major goal of the volume is to integrate research findings on the neural basis of social behavior across different levels of analysis from rodent studies on molecular neurobiology to behavioral neuroscience to fMRI imaging data on human social behavior.
The Brain as a Tool
A Neuroscientist's Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
There are two distinct views about the functions of our brains and their origins. The standard view, taught in most neuroscience texts, has incoming messages about the world sent to the cerebral cortex, with the cortex then producing an appropriate motor output. The interactive view, largely expressed...