Neuroscience category: 1433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Nitric Oxide and Free Radicals in Peripheral Neurotransmission" is a welcome addition to the literature and describes current research into the role of nitric oxide in the peripheral nervous system and its associated organs. Topics covered range from general consideration of nitrergic transmission,...
by Nobuyuki Inui
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book presents new findings on body image and also introduces new neuroscience-based methods for the fields of neurology and neurorehabilitation. Even when the hand is stationary we know its position – information that is needed by the brain to plan movements. If the sensory input from a limb...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Pain is the most common reason people seek medical help. The treatment of chronic pain is a major unmet clinical need and its impact on health, well-being, society and the economy is immense. Pain is an integrative, whole-systems (patho)physiological phenomenon and behavioural neuroscience plays...
Referent control of action and perception
Challenging conventional theories in behavioral neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Empirical data on neural control of motor action and perception have not yet been put into the context of a coherent theory. Dr. Feldman's goal for the proposed book is to illustrate that the field is now at a stage where the data can be used to formulate some core principles that underlie action...
From Human Attention to Computational Attention
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This both accessible and exhaustive book will help to improve modeling of attention and to inspire innovations in industry. It introduces the study of attention and focuses on attention modeling, addressing such themes as saliency models, signal detection and different types of signals, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This volume explores the revolutionary fMRI field from basic principles to state-of-the-art research. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, including the history of fMRI's development using endogenous MR blood contrast, neurovascular coupling, pulse sequences for fMRI, quantitative fMRI; fMRI of the...
Neurobiological Background of Exploration Geosciences
New Methods for Data Analysis Based on Cognitive Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Neurobiological Background of Exploration Geosciences: New Methods for Data Analysis Based on Cognitive Criteria examines the neurobiological background of earth science disciplines. It presents the fundamental features of the human brain that form the cognitive basis of exploration geophysics and...
Neuroenology
How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine's sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscience, biomechanics, human physiology, and traditional enology. Shepherd shows, just as he did in Neurogastronomy:...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Physical implementation of the memristor at industrial scale sparked the interest from various disciplines, ranging from physics, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, neuroscience, to intelligent robotics. As any promising new technology, it has raised hopes and questions; it is an extremely challenging...
Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain
Atypical Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thoroughly examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities,...
Dreaming Souls
Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and...
by John G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body...
Gap Junctions in the Brain
Physiological and Pathological Roles
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Gap junctions between glial cells or neurons are ubiquitously expressed in the mammalian brain and play a role in brain development including cell differentiation, cell migration and survival, and tissue homeostasis, as well as in human diseases including hearing loss, neuropathies, epilepsy, brain...
States of Consciousness
Experimental Insights into Meditation, Waking, Sleep and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness, including the waking state, different...