Neuroscience category: 1433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
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Release Date: May 13, 2013
The recent advances in Programming Somatic Cell (PSC) including induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS) and Induced Neuronal phenotypes (iN), has changed our experimental landscape and opened new possibilities. The advances in PSC have provided an important tool for the study of human neuronal function...
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Release Date: December 10, 2009
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Release Date: December 10, 2009
Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Physiology is an exciting new book in the Heat Shock Proteins series which provides the most up-to-date review on novel mechanisms insights into the important role played by heat shock proteins in human physiology. Written by leaders in the field of heat shock protein...
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Release Date: November 3, 2011
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Release Date: November 3, 2011
The Primer on the Autonomic Nervous System presents, in a readable and accessible format, key information about how the autonomic nervous system controls the body, particularly in response to stress. It represents the largest collection of world-wide autonomic nervous system authorities ever assembled...
101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience—the physical makeup of memory—and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist: malnourished, contentious,...
Computational Theories and their Implementation in the Brain
The legacy of David Marr
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In the late 1960s and early 1970s David Marr produced three astonishing papers in which he gave a detailed account of how the fine structure and known cell types of the cerebellum, hippocampus and neocortex perform the functions that they do. Marr went on to become one of the main founders of Computational...
Vision
A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.
David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many...
Understanding Vision
Theory, Models, and Data
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain. Understanding Vision explains...
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Release Date: January 10, 2013
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Release Date: January 10, 2013
Neurological Rehabilitation is the latest volume in the definitive Handbook of Clinical Neurology series. It is the first time that this increasing important subject has been included in the series and this reflects the growing interest and quality of scientific data on topics around neural recovery...
Human Communication and the Brain
Building the Foundation for the Field of Neurocommunication
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Human Communication and the Brain: Building the Foundation for the Field of Neurocommunications, by Donald B. Egolf, provides an introduction to the latest neuroscience research and expands its applications to the study of communication. Egolf explores both methodological and ethical issues that are...
Neuroethics
Anticipating the future
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Over the last decade, there have been unparalleled advances in our understanding of brain sciences. But with the development of tools that can manipulate brain function, there are pressing ethical implications to this newfound knowledge of how the brain works. In Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future,...
by Mark Wilson, Vincent Walsh, Beth Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part A, Volume 231 reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for—and perform at—peak levels during competition. The latest release in this series focuses on a variety of topics, including...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book, the seventh in the series 'Research and Perspectives in Neuroscience', contains the procedings of a meeting that was held in Paris on October14, 1996. The conference consisted of invited papers and poster presentations. The invited papers, included in this volume, were on cell proliferation...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
The idea for this book developed during the course of several discussions among the editors while we were working together as staff scientists in the laboratories of the Clinical Neuro science Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. It was a happy coincidence that the three of us, child...
Coordinated Activity in the Brain
Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain information processing and cognition. It is thought that cognitive processes involve not only serial stages of sensory signal processing, but also massive parallel information...