Neuroscience

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533393Author Patricia S. ChurchlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 27mm

How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena.The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression,...

Understanding how right-brain and left-brain differences influence our habits, thoughts, and actions.Human behaviour is lopsided. When cradling a newborn child, most of us cradle the infant to the left. When posing for a portrait, we tend to put our left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910600245Author Lea NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Let's Tell Your Story PublishingPublisher Let's Tell Your Story Publishing

Understanding how the brain works is probably the greatest scientific and intellectual challenge of our generation. The cerebral cortex is the instrument by which we carry the most complex mental functions. Fortunately, there exists an immense body of...

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a "neural turn," in the form of...

The authors of the most cited neuroscience publication, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, have written this introductory textbook for neuroscience students. The text is clear and concise, and offers an excellent introduction to the essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130970Author Due QuachFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.

The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively. The book comprehensively covers the...

Stress: Neuroendocrinology and Neurobiology: Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 2, focuses on neuroendocrinology, the discipline that deals with the way that the brain controls hormonal secretion, and in turn, the way that hormones control the brain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124047Author Ray KurzweilFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997965322Author Thomas G Broussard, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Stroke Educator IncPublisher Stroke Educator IncWeight(grams)...

It is hard to think of any significant aspect of our lives that is not influenced by what we have learned in the past. Of fundamental importance is our ability to learn the ways in which events are related to one another, called associative learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316300193Author Beau LottoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 28mm

Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud?Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of...

It has been known for over a century that there is an afferent (body-to-brain) component to the visceral-autonomic nervous system. Despite the fundamental importance of bodily afferent information - sometimes called interoception - to central nervous...

Ordinary people can perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line. A pregnant woman saw a dorsal fin and blood in the water-and dove right in to pull her wounded husband to safety. Remarkably, some even leap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316180665Author Claire DennettFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Most people are surprised to learn that seeing has not yet been explained by science. Incredibly, scientists cannot even explain why some surfaces appear to be black while others appear to be white. The physical difference between a surface that appears...

What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often...

The Science of Marijuana, 3rd Edition is directed at a public interested in knowing more about cannabis, how it works, and what the hazards associated with its use may be. In terms of cannabis as a medicine, it is now sanctioned by a majority of US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578606835Author Jd Dinu GangureFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Blue Globe PressPublisher Blue Globe PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons: Second Edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to essential concepts of cellular neuroscience. Emphasizing experimental approaches and recent discoveries, it provides an in-depth look at the...

Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain, Second Edition builds on the features of successful first edition, providing a comprehensive and convenient reference for all areas of the mouse brain at Fetal-Day 17.5 (E17.5), Day-of-Birth (P0), and Day-Six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048149Author Joseph AyersFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, it is now commonplace to assume that the study of a human person-a thinking, feeling, acting subject-is ultimately the study of the human brain. In both Europe and the United States,...

From Brain Dynamics to the Mind: Spatiotemporal Neuroscience explores how the self and consciousness is related to neural events. Sections in the book cover existing models used to describe the mind/brain problem, recent research on brain mechanisms and...

Do you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers.* In The Happy Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett delves deep into the inner workings of our minds to explore some fundamental questions about happiness. For starters: what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536196207Author Richard D. CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories—and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thriveWe tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains...

In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are...

This is an introductory textbook which specifically addresses the question of what happens to the human nervous system during ageing, after damage, or as a result of genetically inherited defects, discussing some of the ways in which nervous system...

Although the function of nitric oxide in a regulatory capacity in the central and peripheral nervous system is widely recognized, the full scope of its actions and its interrelationships with other classes of regulatory molecules is just beginning to be...

This volume includes paradigms, model systems, and techniques for the study of dysfunctions in the nervous system. The advantages and disadvantages of the approaches presented are critically discussed.Key Features * Neural injury * Developmental cell...

What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with at the...

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With so many competing priorities pulling us in different directions every day—family, friends, work, our health—it can feel difficult to make decisions that are aligned with what we care about most. Especially in the moment, we often default to the...

Diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, a neuroscientist searches for the answer to one of life's biggest questions: Are miracles real? After experiencing a violent seizure, Joshua W. Brown was diagnosed with an inoperable glioma-a cancerous brain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789859997Author Thomas HeinbockelFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen