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“bruce e wexler”

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  • Brain and Culture

    Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change

    by Bruce E. Wexler ...
    Research shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nature of the stimulation shapes the connections among neurons that create the neuronal networks necessary for thought and behavior. By changing the cultural environment, each generation shapes the brains of the next. By early adulthood, the neuroplasticity of the brain is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Thinking Big

    How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

    by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett ...
    A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human livesWe are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of humans and Neanderthals, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

    Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel

    by Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D ...
    Building crucial bridges between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, this compelling volume brings together prominent authorities from multiple disciplines. The volume highlights the contributions of Eric R. Kandel, whose seminal articles helped launch the fledgling field of neuropsychoanalysis. Contributors address what contemporary neuroscientific research reveals about how psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology of Sport and Exercise

    Foundations, Markers, Trends

    Edited by Felix Ehrlenspiel, Katharina Strahler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    Psychoneuroendocrinology is the study of the interaction between hormones, the brain and human behaviour. This is the first book to examine psychoneuroendocrinology in the context of sport and exercise, offering a comprehensive review of current research and assessment techniques and highlighting directions for future research.The book explores the links between hormones and behaviour, and draws ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans

    How fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds

    by Barbara J. Sahakian, Julia Gottwald ...
    The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development of neuropsychiatric treatments. One of the key techniques available to us is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows us to examine the human brain non-invasively, and observe brain activity in real time. Through fMRI, we are beginning ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Basic Concepts In Neuroscience: A Student's Survival Guide

    by Malcolm M. Slaughter ...
    *A new book in the Basic Concepts series*Explains the fundamental principles of neuroscience and helps students organize and condense the material they need to study*Level of the material progressively builds from simple to complex, enabling mastery of concepts*Content is presented in simple, jargon-free language*Critical need-to-know information is highlights in boxes*Numerous tables and charts ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis

    by Paul W. Glimcher ...
    A new academic field, neuroeconomics, has emerged at the border of the social and natural sciences. In Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, Paul Glimcher argues that a meaningful interdisciplinary synthesis of the study of human and animal choice is not only desirable, but also well underway, and so it is time to formally develop a foundational approach for the field. He does so by laying the ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear

    Evidence from the Fossil Record

    Edited by Jennifer A. Clack, Richard R Fay, Arthur N. Popper ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The evolution of vertebrate hearing is of considerable interest in the hearing community. However, there has never been a volume that has focused on the paleontological evidence for the evolution of hearing and the ear, especially from the perspective of some of the leading paleontologists and evolutionary biologists in the world. Thus, this volume is totally unique, and takes a perspective that ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function

    Edited by Peter Meerlo, Ruth M. Benca, Ted Abel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book reviews current knowledge on the importance of sleep for brain function, from molecular mechanisms to behavioral output, with special emphasis on the question of how sleep and sleep loss ultimately affect cognition and mood. It provides an extensive overview of the latest insights in the role of sleep in regulating gene expression, synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis and how that in ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.

    by Walter Osika, Barbro Fröding ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Ethics
    This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD