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“michelle fitzpatrick”

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  • The Teaching Brain

    An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education

    by Vanessa Rodriguez, Michelle Fitzpatrick ...
    "A significant contribution to understanding the interaction among teachers, students, the environment, and the content of learning" (Herbert Kohl, education advocate and author).What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on in the head of a thirty-five-year-old parent showing a first-grader how to button a coat? And what exactly is ... Read more

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  • Now You See It

    How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A digital innovator shows how we can thrive in the new technological age.When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light-as an innovative way to turn learning on its head ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

    A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

    by Katrina Firlik ...
    Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this rare combination to create a neurosurgeon’s Kitchen Confidential–a unique insider ... Read more

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  • Your Brain Is a Time Machine

    The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

    by Dean Buonomano ...
    "Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street JournalIn Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Neuroscience of Creativity

    Edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman ...
    Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity.This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and neuroimaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Governing Behavior

    How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do

    by Ari Berkowitz ...
    From simple reflexes to complex choreographies of movement, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is it—a dictatorship or a democracy?Nervous systems consist of circuits of interconnected nerve cells (neurons) that transmit and receive information via electrical signals. Every moment, each neuron adds up stimulating and inhibiting inputs from many other ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • MRI Atlas of Human White Matter

    by Kenichi Oishi, Andreia V. Faria, Peter C M van Zijl, Susumu Mori ...
    MRI Atlas of Human White Matter presents an atlas to the human brain on the basis of T 1-weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging. A general background on magnetic resonance imaging is provided, as well as the basics of diffusion tensor imaging. An overview of the principles and limitations in using this methodology in fiber tracking is included. This book describes the core white-matter ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

  • Music, evolution, and the harmony of souls

    by Alan R. Harvey ...
    Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Handbook of Basal Ganglia Structure and Function

    Edited by Heinz Steiner, Kuei Y. Tseng ...
    Series Book 24 - Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
    The Basal Ganglia comprise a group of forebrain nuclei that are interconnected with the cerebral cortex, thalamus and brainstem. Basal ganglia circuits are involved in various functions, including motor control and learning, sensorimotor integration, reward and cognition. The importance of these nuclei for normal brain function and behavior is emphasized by the numerous and diverse disorders ... Read more

    $202.49 USD

  • Cholesterol and Presynaptic Glutamate Transport in the Brain

    by Tatiana Borisova ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the CNS and disturbances in glutamate transport contribute to a number of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Appropriate levels of cholesterol are very important for the proper functioning of glutamate transport while unbalanced levels of cholesterol have been implicated in the pathogenesis of disorders such as stroke, ischemia, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Drug Treatment of Sleep Disorders

    Edited by Antonio Guglietta ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Following reviews on sleep physiology, regulation, pharmacology, and the neuronal networks regulating sleep and awakening, as well as a classification of sleep disorders, this book presents a number of major breakthroughs in the treatment of those disorders. These include recently approved drugs for treating insomnia, such as Doxepin; variations on previously approved molecules, e.g. Zolpidem ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Computational Neurology and Psychiatry

    Edited by Péter Érdi, Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya, Amy L. Cochran ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents the latest research in computational methods for modeling and simulating brain disorders. In particular, it shows how mathematical models can be used to study the relationship between a given disorder and the specific brain structure associated with that disorder. It also describes the emerging field of computational psychiatry, including the study of pathological behavior due ... Read more

    $152.09 USD