Neuroscience category: 1433 books
The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
A Stitch of Time
The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
“Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoir…a captivating” (Kirkus Reviews) account of one woman’s journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate.
Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her...
Into the Gray Zone
A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of our...
by Roberto Blanco Brime
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2018
¿Cómo funciona tu cerebro y el de tu cliente? ¿Por qué memorizas una marca pero otra no? ¿Por qué eliges Apple en vez de Samsung? ¿Por qué eres 'infiel' a tu compañía de teléfono, pero leal a tu marca de tabaco? ¿Por qué bebes la cerveza que bebes? ¿Crees que la has elegido tú o ha...
Activation to Acquisition
Functional Aspects of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
by G. G. Lunt, R. W. Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The attractions of invertebrate nervous systems have long been appreciated by neurophysiologists. Indeed some of the milestones in our understanding of nervous systems have their foundations in experiments done on invertebrate preparations, typified by the role of the squid axon in dissect ing the...
The Brain's Way of Healing
Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now in an updated and expanded paperback edition.
Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology**
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by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT brings together twenty-four of Oliver Sacks’ most fascinating and beloved case studies. The patients in these pages are confronted with almost inconceivably strange neurological disorders; in Sacks’ telling, their stories are a profound testament to the adaptability...
by Robert M. Stern;William J. Ray;Karen S. Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
This is a thorough revision of a successful introductory text on psychophysiological recording. The authors include information on the most up-to-date equipment used today to do brain scanning and discuss other equipment not available in 1980. A new chapter on signal processing and analysis has been added and discussions cover nonlinear systems as well as cognitive psychophysiology.
Wired for Intimacy
How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability...
by Steven Pinker
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
“A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.” —New York Review of Books
The Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller How the Mind Works is a fascinating, provocative work exploring the mysteries of human thought and behavior. How do we see in three dimensions? How...
Welcome to Your Brain
Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Does drinking really kill brain cells? Does listening to Mozart make your baby smarter? For all the mileage we've gotten from our own brains, most of us have essentially no idea how they work. We're easily susceptible to myths (like the "fact" that we use only 10% of our brains) and misconceptions...
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised...