"This book recounts the dramatic history of neutrino science and details the recent successes and ongoing challenges physicists face in pursuit of the ghostly subatomic particle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"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.
The fascinating story of glutamate, the neurotransmitter that controls the structure and function of the brain in health and neurological disorders. Sculptor and Destroyer tells the story of a simple, little-known molecule that became a master architect and commander of the human brain: glutamate. Upward of 90 percent of the neurons in the human brain deploy glutamate as their neurotransmitter.…
"Zickzack (German for Zig-zag) is an examination of six locations around the German-speaking area of Europe, ranging from the Baltic in the north, to the Tyrollean and French border territories in the south. The texts themselves are each a mixture of small essays, narration, conversations, lists, descriptions of places, and cover a wide range of subject matter - politics, architecture, literatu…
"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A book describing surprising findings from a new dataset on startups in the US"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This volume explores the neurological and behavioral mechanisms and processes involved in intrusive thinking and suggests avenues for future clinically relevant research"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"State-of-the-art collection on how neuroscience and philosophy can mutually illuminate each other on core psychological concepts. An interdisciplinary collection in the best sense"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.