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Category: Neuroscience books. 4 languages. ... Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. This includes Neuroanatomy; Behavioral neuroscience;
First published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill, Principles of Neural Science is an influential neuroscience textbook edited by Columbia University professors Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell. The original edition was 468 pages; now on the sixth edition, the book has grown to 1646 pages.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007.In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as alluded to in the title, Marcel Proust.
In December 2021, Rod Dreher writes in The American Conservative that though Part I of The Matter with Things is a "fairly technical discussion of neuroscience", [18] the book is "more focused on the philosophical and metaphysical implications" of the hemispheric functioning of the brain proposed in his earlier book, The Master and His Emissary ...
The book is broken into 9 sections followed by an introductory bibliography on psychical research and 100 pages of references. Chapter 1: A View from the Mainstream: Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience and the Consciousness Debates; Chapter 2: F. W. H. Myers and the Empirical Study of the Mind-Body Problem; Chapter 3: Psychophysiological Influence
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (or simply known as Why We Sleep) is a 2017 popular science book about sleep written by Matthew Walker, an English scientist and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in neuroscience and psychology.
Brainwashing was first published in hardcover format on 16 December 2004 by Oxford University Press, and again in paperback format on 24 August 2006.The book was "highly commended" and runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award, and also made it to the shortlist for the 2005 MIND "Book of the Year Award".
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self is a popular science book by the Colombian neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás, published in February 2002 by MIT Press. [1] and whose Spanish edition features a prologue by his friend, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.