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Restorative Neurology: Advances in Pharmacotherapy for Recovery after Stroke
by Larry B Goldstein  Publisher Comments This timely and thorough book focuses on pharmacotherapeutical strategies for facilitating the functional recovery of patients with stroke-related neurological impairments. Clinicians should find the sections on measuring stroke-related impairments and...
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Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity #0001: Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation
by John Hertz Publisher Comments This book is a comprehensive introduction to the neural network models currently under intensive study for computational applications. It is a detailed, logically-developed treatment that covers the theory and uses of collective computational networks...
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The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate
by Elliot S Valenstein Publisher Comments "The War of the Soups and the Sparks" tells the engaging story of the dispute between the pharmacologists who uncovered the first evidence that nerves communicate by releasing chemicals and the neurophysiologists who dismissed the proof and remained...
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Introducing Mind & Brain 3RD Edition
by Angus Gellatly Publisher Comments Examines a profound and mysterious puzzle: how does the biological tissue that makes up the brain give rise to the activity that our culture refers to as the mind?...
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The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate
by Elliot S Valenstein Publisher Comments "The War of the Soups and the Sparks" tells the engaging story of the dispute between the pharmacologists who uncovered the first evidence that nerves communicate by releasing chemicals and the neurophysiologists who dismissed the proof and remained...
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Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
by Richard Rapport Publisher Comments Modern medicine is ever indebted to the doctor who interpreted the elusive--and rather extraordinary--anatomy of the nerve cell. This is the story not only of one of the 19th century's greatest discoveries but also of the frailty, perseverance, and...
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The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
by William H Calvin Publisher Comments The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman 
Powells.com Staff Pick Diane Ackerman writes with grace and wisdom. Her prose is lyrical, sensuous, and utterly charming. I've never been disappointed in a work by Ackerman, but An Alchemy of Mind takes the cake. Here she covers neurochemistry and -physiology and the concept...
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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Fyssen Foundation Symposium)
by Stanislas Dehaene Publisher Comments The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between...
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Neuropharmacology of ethanol :new approaches
by Roger E Meyer Book News Annotation Based on a panel symposium of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1988, 12 papers address such topics as whether alcohol and anesthetic actions are mediated by lipids or proteins, the molecular and...
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Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
by Gerald M. Edelman Publisher Comments A renowned neuroscientist explains how an individual's brain and body give rise to knowledge, creativity, and mental experience....
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The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety Is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love
by Richard, M.d. Restak Publisher Comments Consider a world in which • Marketers use brain scans to determine consumer interest in a product • Politicians use brain-image-based profiles to target voters • A test could determine your suitability for a job or to whom you will be...
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The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
by Marvin Minsky Publisher Comments Our minds are working all the time, but we rarely stop to think about how they work. The human mind has many different ways to think, says Marvin Minsky, the leading figure in artificial intelligence and computer science. We use these different ways of...
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Memory: The Key to Consciousness
by Richard F. Thompson and Stephen A. Madigan Publisher Comments Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Every person's brain holds millions of bits of information in long-term storage. This vast memory store includes our extensive vocabulary and knowledge of language; the tremendous...
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The Brain-Shaped Mind: What the Brain Can Tell Us about the Mind
by Naomi Goldblum Publisher Comments Neural networks are used to explore how the brain??'s structure influences the mind....
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick Publisher Comments Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, "The Astonishing Hypothesis", Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and...
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The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man
by Jeffrey Satinover Publisher Comments Ist unser Wille wirklich frei, oder glauben wir nur, dass er frei ist? Sind wir die Architekten unserer Schicksale oder nur programmierte Maschinen? Werden die Maschinen, die wir bauen, eines Tages selbst einen freien Willen entwickeln? Mit diesen...
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Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds
by Brian Burrell Publisher Comments What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? For hundreds of years, scientists have been fascinated by this question. In Postcards from the Brain Museum, Brian Burrell relates the story of the...
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Annual Review of Neuroscience Volume 25, 2002
by W. Maxwell Cowan Book News Annotation Representing the year's best, these 19 papers discuss current topics and recent developments in neuroscience. Specific chapters discuss issues like: the human genome project and its impact on psychiatry, auditory system development, AMPA system...
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A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond
by William H Calvin Publisher Comments This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now...
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