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Author: Lisa Genova Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0857202685 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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The moving second novel from the author of international hit Still Alice, which explores the life of a woman struck by a brain disorder, Left Neglect 'I think some small part of me knew I was living an unsustainable life. Every now and then, it would whisper, slow down. You don't need all this.' Sarah Nickerson has it all: a high-flying career, a loving husband and children, a second home. But does she have time to enjoy it? Too busy to pay full attention, can she see what's left neglected? One fateful day while driving to work, Sarah looks away from the road for one second too long. In the blink of an eye, her overfull life comes to a screeching halt. In the wake of a devastating accident that affects her body and mind in surprising ways, it's time for her to choose: who does she really want to be?
Author: Lisa Genova Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0857202685 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
The moving second novel from the author of international hit Still Alice, which explores the life of a woman struck by a brain disorder, Left Neglect 'I think some small part of me knew I was living an unsustainable life. Every now and then, it would whisper, slow down. You don't need all this.' Sarah Nickerson has it all: a high-flying career, a loving husband and children, a second home. But does she have time to enjoy it? Too busy to pay full attention, can she see what's left neglected? One fateful day while driving to work, Sarah looks away from the road for one second too long. In the blink of an eye, her overfull life comes to a screeching halt. In the wake of a devastating accident that affects her body and mind in surprising ways, it's time for her to choose: who does she really want to be?
Author: Laurent Vercueil Publisher: Le Bélial ISBN: 2381630384 Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 280
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Extraterrestres au crâne hypertrophié... Cerveaux flottant dans une cuve, à même de manipuler rêves et souvenirs, doués de télépathie ou de précognition... Depuis ses origines ou presque, la science-fiction se creuse la tête au sujet de la matière grise. Si les neurosciences nous renseignent sur le fonctionnement du cerveau, que disent-elles de ce qu’il pourrait faire ? De ce dont serait capable un cerveau poussé dans ses ultimes limites ? Et où trouver les pistes qui explorent lesdites limites ? Dans la tête des extraterrestres ou dans celle d’humains vivant dans un lointain avenir ? Mettant en regard neurosciences et SF au sein d’une véritable entreprise de neuro-science-fiction, Laurent Vercueil, neurologue au CHU Grenoble Alpes et chercheur à l’Inserm, questionne la nature de l’intelligence et des émotions, et étudie les capacités du cerveau — qu’il soit éloigné dans l’espace ou dans le temps, ou tout simplement juché au-dessus de nos épaules...
Author: Uwe Spetzger Publisher: tredition ISBN: 3749725993 Category : Fiction Languages : de Pages : 541
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D*Terminus II - ein Neuro-Science-Fiction-Thriller mit frei erfundenen Personen und Geschichten, jedoch logisch verknüpft mit wissenschaftlich verbürgten und allgemein akzeptierten Fakten. Ein Buch, das Anlass zum Hinterfragen und "Hirnen" gibt. D*Terminus II handelt von der künstlichen Erweiterung der Hirnleistung durch Manipulation des menschlichen Gehirns. Ein internationales Expertenteam aus 13 Neurowissenschaftlern entwickelt eine neue, abenteuerliche Technologie und beweist in wagemutigen Selbstversuchen, dass dadurch eine unbegrenzte Informationsspeicherung in ihren eigenen Gehirnen erzeugt werden kann. Durch Implantation spezieller DNA-Chips erlangen die Forscher unter anderem die Fähigkeit alle Sprachen zu verstehen und zu sprechen. Die unermessliche Vielfalt an weltweitem Wissen ist nun jederzeit abrufbar. Aus dieser Materie entsteht eine dramatische und unglaubliche Geschichte. Die Macht dieser Innovation und die daraus resultierenden Möglichkeiten, die solch ein übermenschliches Gehirn birgt, verursachen abscheuliche, kriminelle Verwicklungen. Das zuvor beschauliche Leben und Arbeiten der Wissenschaftler in ihren jeweiligen Heimatländern ändert sich fundamental. Sie werden zu tragischen Marionetten in einem weltumspannenden düsteren Netzwerk. Im Kontext wissenschaftlich erwiesener Fakten wird ein facettenreicher, dichter und schillernder Spannungsbogen erzeugt, in dem Fiktion und Realität unzertrennlich zu einer gefährlichen sowie fraglichen - einer neuen - Wahrheit verschmelzen. Wahrlich ein sensationeller Neuro-Science-Fiction-Thriller.
Author: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga Publisher: BenBella Books ISBN: 1944648550 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 170
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If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers? From Plato to Westworld, these questions have fascinated and befuddled philosophers, artists, and scientists for centuries. In The Forgetting Machine, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga explains how the mechanics of memory illuminates these discussions, with implications for everything from understanding Alzheimer's disease to the technology of Artificial Intelligence. You'll also learn about the research behind what Quian Quiroga coined "Jennifer Aniston Neurons," cells in the human brain that are responsible for representing specific concepts, such as recognizing a certain celebrity's face. The discovery of these neurons opens new windows into the workings of human memory. In this accessible, fascinating look at the science of remembering, discover how we turn perceptions into memories, how language shapes our experiences, and the crucial role forgetting plays in human recollection. You'll see how electricity, chemistry, and abstraction combine to form something more than the human brain, the human mind. And you'll gain surprising insight into what our brains can tell us about who we are. The Forgetting Machine takes us on a journey through science and science fiction, philosophy and identity, using what we know about how we remember (and forget) to explore the very roots of what makes us human.
Author: Chantel Prat Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1524746614 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a tour of the meaningful ways that our brains are dissimilar from one another. Using real-world examples, along with take-them-yourself tests and quizzes, she shows you how to identify the strengths and weakness of your own brain, while learning what might be going on in the brains of those who are unlike you. With sections like “Focus,” “Navigate,” and “Connect,” The Neuroscience of You helps us see how brains that are engineered differently ultimately take diverse paths when it comes time to prioritize information, use what they’ve learned from experience, relate to other people, and so much more. While other scientists focus on how “the” brain works “on average,” Prat argues that our obsession with commonalities has slowed our progress toward understanding the very things that make each of us unique and interesting. Her field-leading research, employing cutting-edge technology, reveals the truth: Complicated as it may be, no two brains are alike. And individual differences in brain functioning are as pervasive as they are fundamental to defining what “normal” looks like. Adages such as, “I’m not wired that way” intuitively point to the fact that the brains we’re piloting, educating, and parenting are wonderfully distinct, explaining a whole host of phenomena, from how easily a person might learn a second language in adulthood to whether someone feels curious or threatened when faced with new information. This book invites the reader to understand themselves and others by zooming in so close that we all look gray and squishy.
Author: Harold L. Klawans Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393321845 Category : Brain Languages : en Pages : 260
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A master neurologist's clinical tales--both funny and profound--of the evolution of the brain. No matter what the ailment--painful foot syndrome or mad cow disease--Dr. Klawans ultimately treated, or diagnosed, peoples brains. Here are his deductions from years of study.
Author: Jonah Lehrer Publisher: HMH ISBN: 0547394284 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 295
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The New York Times–bestselling author provides an “entertaining” look at how artists enlighten us about the workings of the brain (New York magazine). In this book, the author of How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works “writes skillfully and coherently about both art and science”—and about the connections between the two (Entertainment Weekly). In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, it’s cured countless diseases and sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer explains, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of artists—a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists—Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language—a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. More broadly, Lehrer shows that there’s a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and art knows this better than science does. An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both to brilliant effect. “His book marks the arrival of an important new thinker . . . Wise and fresh.” —Los Angeles Times
Author: Nick Sagan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101643277 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
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“GRIPPING . . . the kind of book you simply don’t want to stop reading.”—Neil Gaiman He calls himself Halloween. He is a unique student attending a most prestigious boarding school—the Idlewild Immersive Virtual Reality Academy. While his body sleeps, his mind interacts with those of his fellow students under the tutelage of the enigmatic artificial intelligence known as Maestro. An inexplicable energy surge has damaged the IVR and fragmented Halloween’s mind. Convinced this anomaly was deliberately triggered to kill him, Halloween is desperate to recover his memories—only to discover a devastating revelation about his true existence. “Idlewild builds, not just in tension but in what it demands from the reader, ending up as a dark exploration of hidden realities.”—The Guardian “Sagan provides plenty of suspense and perfectly captures the angry adolescent solipsism that makes kids into hackers and superheroes.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author: Oné R. Pagán Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199965056 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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Planarians, a class of flatworm, are extraordinary: they possess the remarkable ability to regenerate lost body parts, including complete regeneration of the nervous system. If cut into pieces, each piece of the planarian can regenerate into a complete organism. They are also unique among invertebrates in that they display addiction-like behaviors to many drugs abused by humans. Because of these distinct neurological traits, the planarian is often used as an animal model in neurological research, being used most recently for developments in neuropharmacology. The First Brain is a discussion of how planarians have been used in neuropharmacology, and what role they have played in scientific developments that have a high impact on our culture. Planarians have been the animal models for research in drug addiction, antidepressant development, and various other topics in biology, neurobiology, and even zoology. Pagán uses these flatworms as a framework to explore the history of biological research. The book provides accessible background information on how biomedical research is impacted by evolution, and defines neurobiology and neuropharmacology in ways that are easy to understand. At the same time, Pagán provides enough detail for the book to useful for scientists working in various subsections of biology. The planarian has played a key role in the history biological, neuropharmacological, and zoological research, and has even made appearances in a few unexpected places in popular culture. Oné Pagán explores all these roles, and shows us why the planarian truly is one of the most extraordinary and influential organisms in scientific research today.
Author: Lisa Genova
Author: Lisa Genova
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Author: Laurent Vercueil
Author: Uwe Spetzger
Author: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Author: Chantel Prat
Author: Harold L. Klawans
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Author: Nick Sagan
Author: Oné R. Pagán