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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term--"coelenterates"--and deemed these animals too similar to plants to warrant a nervous system. In Dawn of the Neuron, Michel Anctil shows how Darwin's theory of evolution completely eradicated this idea and cleared the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Do dogs experience emotions like people do? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake--so they could figure out what they think and feel. But dogs were just the beginning. In [this book], Berns takes us into the brains and minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, and dolphins who can see with sound..."--Dust...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Scientists, physicians, medical students, and all readers with an interest in brain function and its relationship to the immune system in health and disease will find this book a valuable resource. With general readers in mind, the authors provide a useful primer to explain scientific terms and concepts discussed in the book, "--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xviii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[Gregory] Berns and his dog would embark on a remarkable journey and be the first to glimpse the inner workings of the canine brain. Painstakingly, the two worked together to overcome the many technical, legal, and behavioral hurdles. Berns's research offers surprising results on how dogs empathize with human emotions, how they love us, and why dogs and humans share one of the most remarkable friendships in the animal kingdom."--Jacket.
29) How do we think?
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the various parts of the brain and the nervous system and how they function to enable us to think, feel, move, and remember.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Mariner books edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, and the myriad ways they control how other creatures -- including humans -- act, feel, and think As we are now discovering, parasites -- microbes that cannot thrive and reproduce without another organism as a host -- are shockingly sophisticated and extraordinarily powerful.
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 136 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Preface Preface v vi Computational Neuroscience Simulated Demyelinating Neuropathies and Neuronopathies (PISD) are specifi c indicators for CIDP and its subtypes; (3) the severe focal demyelinations, each of them internodal and paranodal, paranodalinternodal (IFD and PFD, PIFD), are specifi c indicators for acquired demyelinating neuropathies such as GBS and MMN; (4) the simulated progressively greater degrees of axonal dysfunctions termed ALS1,...
33) The quiet boy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk - still in practice but a shell of his former self - is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 274 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Surgeon in the Village tells the inspiring story of doctors who, through a "train-forward" philosophy, changed the health care of an African nation. The story exposes a major and largely neglected global-health issue--the shortage of surgeons.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks on an affair.
39) Neurocomic
Author
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nonfiction graphic novel explaining the physiology of the brain and describing theoretical and experimental developments that led to our present understanding.
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