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Despite the fact that we spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, science has still not been able to provide an answer as to why we and other animals sleep. While much of sleep physiology has been elucidated over years of scientific research, there has never been a thorough explanation of sleep that accounts for all of the observed sleep phenomena and uncovers sleep's primary purpose and why it evolved in the first place. Until now. The Neurotransmitter...
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Estamos convencidos que todos los seres humanos son seres creativos y todos sin excepción tienen la posibilidad de trabajar en el desarrollo de su pensamiento creativo. El libro que usted tiene en sus manos está pensado para que a través de la práctica y ejecución de los ejercicios propuestos, entrene su cerebro en tres habilidades de la creatividad: la fluidez, la flexibilidad y la originalidad.
Cada NeuroReto es un ejercicio de entrenamiento,...
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Las neurociencias están de moda. En su nombre, con el dedo en alto y tono profético, se les dice a los docentes lo que deben hacer y cómo hacerlo para lograr el tan anhelado tesoro: que los estudiantes aprendan. ¿Cuánto hay de cierto y cuánto de mito en lo que se pregona? ¿Es puro palabrerío para vestir con nuevas ropas a las mismas recetas de siempre?
Aprender es modificar el cerebro, dice la autora de este libro. Y es que el cerebro tiene...
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"Cytoplasmic Release of Neurotransmitters" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the neurobiological mechanism of drug-induced cytoplasmic release of neurotransmitters pharmacologically.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are...
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¿Alguna vez escuchaste la expresión "El cuerpo no miente"? ¿Por qué durante estas últimas décadas estuvimos más interesados en los misterios del cerebro y no de nuestro verdadero templo único, nuestro cuerpo? Luego de años de dedicarme al estudio del cerebro, me di cuenta de que nos faltaba algo: aprender a sentir lo que sentimos. La experiencia de nuestra experiencia. Escuchar, registrar y entender a nuestro cuerpo y su relación con el...
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"Mind-Brain Connection" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the connection between the mind and the brain, and between the brain and behavior. It describes the different levels of connections between the mind, body and behavior.
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¿De dónde vienen realmente los números y cómo llegan a nuestra mente? ¿Por qué algunas personas tienen facilidad para lidiar con ellos y a muchas otras les resulta tan difícil dominarlos? Este libro ofrece respuestas a estas y otras apasionantes preguntas que delinean lo que Stanislas Dehaene llama "el sentido del número": nuestra capacidad para representar cantidades y para entender esos símbolos abstractos, relacionarlos, sumarlos, multiplicarlos...
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This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.
What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand...
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This book describes the incredible recovery stories of 5 musicians who all suffered different traumatic brain injuries; a car accident, two bicycle accidents, a ruptured brain aneurysm and a terrible fall from the fourth story of a building's fire escape. Their riveting journeys from horrific injuries, nearing death, through intensive care treatment and rehabilitation accounts for what many trauma patients and their families endure. However, these...
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Helen Ross Lee's memoir The Phoenix Rising shows us a successful nurse, mum, and hang gliding champion at the top of her game. In 2008, she suffered a tragic accident in a practice takeoff maneuver that resulted in a grievous traumatic brain injury (TBI), which precipitated a coma and temporary amnesia. Helen refused to give up or give in, regardless of the gloomy prognosis from medical experts. Her ten-year struggle to rehabilitate and return to...
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"Neurotransmitter Pathways" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the neurotransmitter circuitry, including the cell origins and the targets of the neurotransmitter pathways.
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PREMIO ATLAS 2014 A LA DIVULGACIÓN EN NEUROCIENCIA
Mediante la lectura de este libro navegaremos por la libertad, el destino de nuestras acciones, las motivaciones elementales, la ruptura y el equilibrio en la salud mental, las formas de afrontamiento ante la presión del estrés, los orígenes y la prevención de la violencia, la capacidad de autodirección y las habilidades sociales, así como el origen del altruismo, el optimismo inteligente,...
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How we think, feel, move, remember, imagine, and experience the outside world and our own bodies is the domain of neuroscience. For millennia, the workings of the brain and nerves could be approached only through superstition and conjecture. Then, in the 19th century, neuroscience began to cast light on this most complex of our bodily systems. This accessible, illustrated book traces the development of neuroscience, from ancient beliefs to the technologies...
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Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. Many scientists, philosophers,...
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¿Por qué sentimos placer por la música? ¿Por qué sentimos dolor? ¿Es posible elegir lo que soñamos? ¿Es diferente el cerebro de mujer y hombre? ¿Qué fundamentos explican la agresión y la violencia? ¿Por qué somos, al parecer, el animal más inteligente? ¿De qué nos sirve la meditación? ¿Cómo podemos proteger el cerebro y frenar el envejecimiento cognitivo? ¿Cuáles son las causas de la depresión, el Alzheimer o el trastorno autista?...
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THE FORM WITHIN is the fascinating story of two hundred years of pioneering brain research, told from the unique perspective of the only brain scientist who has been, and still remains, an active participant in that story throughout the past seventy years: Karl H. Pribram. In THE FORM WITHIN, Dr. Pribram takes us on a compelling journey from the dawn of our collective recorded perceptions" in cave paintings to our greatest achievements as a species....
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The Oscillating Brain explains for the first time how the human brain works. Neural oscillation is a form of repetitive activity which is characteristic of complex systems. The brain has extensive reciprocal connections. Reciprocal connectivity is the basis for neural oscillation. While some patterns of neural oscillation are localized (restricted to specific regions of the brain), others involve reciprocal connections between geographically separate...
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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: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, that creating the taste of wine engages more of the brain than does any other human behavior....
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This is a captivating, must-read book for everyone, including medical professionals and journalists. This book delves into the myths that I have heard over the years about epilepsy and gives my readers an explanation of the facts and the reasons why the myths are myths. What can a person believe? How can we achieve a better understanding of epilepsy?This book covers all aspects of epilepsy, including basic mechanisms to diagnosis and management and...
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