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Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century G…
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818-1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresse…
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Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis
Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. …
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.
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Fatigue as a window to the brain
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271448
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- 1 online resource (xx, 336 pages) :illustrations.
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Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable--public--privat…
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- 9780262320610
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages)
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The intact and sliced brain
"A Bradford book."In this book Mircea Steriade cautions against the tendency of some neuroscientists to infer global brain functions such as arousal and sleep, epileptic events, and even conscious thinking from the properties of single cells. Based on his lifetime of research on intact brains, Steriade emphasizes the need to understand isolated networks within the context of the whole mammalian…
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- 9780262284318
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- 1 online resource (xi, 366 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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After eating :metabolizing the arts
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The brain in motion :from microcircuits to global brain function
"A complete and authoritative of the neural control of movement in animals ranging from lampreys to humans, including the roles of the cortex and basal ganglia, and will also cover motor disorders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375306
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What is health? :allostasis and the evolution of human design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262356299
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Microcircuits :the interface between neurons and global brain function
"Report of the 93rd Dahlem Workshop on Microcircuits: the interface between neurons and global brain function, Berlin, April 25-30, 2004"--Page [ii].AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274326
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Sensory Exotica :A World Beyond Human Experience.
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- 9780262275866
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