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The nervous systyem. by Llamas, Andreu.(CARDINAL)388911;
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Subjects: Neurophysiology.; Nervous system.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hunger, thirst, sex, and sleep : how the brain controls our passions / by Young, John K.(CARDINAL)782085;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In a series of fascinating anecdotes, Young tells the tale of how scientists have discovered the role of the hypothalamus in our basic drives and in medical conditions in which these drives are drastically altered. Covering our need for food, water, sex, sleep, and other life essentials, he reveals the brain's part in how we provide for each, and how in some cases, those needs can swing wildly out of control resulting in problems such as obesity, diabetes, insomnia, or narcolepsy. He shows how regulating body temperature can affect the lifespan, how the aging process affects sexual behavior, how empathy and love develop in relationships with family members or with love interests, and how all these functions and more can go awry.
Subjects: Brain; Neurophysiology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unique : the new science of human individuality / by Linden, David J.,1961-author.(CARDINAL)482474;
Includes bibliographical references and index."As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a few years ago, when he found himself on OKCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human difference, hegot to thinking, where does it all come from? Why does one person have perfect pitch, a taste for hoppy beer, and an aversion to bathroom selfies? That is, what makes you, you, and me, me? In Unique, David Linden tells a riveting and accessible story of human individuality. Exploring topics that touch all of our lives-among them sexuality, gender identity, food preferences, biological rhythms, mood, personality, memory, and intelligence-Linden shows that human individuality is not simply a matter of nature versus nurture. Rather, it is a product of the complex, and often counterintuitive, interplay between our genetic blueprints and our experiences. Experience isn't just the how your parents reared you, but the diseases you have had, the foods you have eaten, the bacteria that reside in your body, the weather during your early development, and the technology you've been exposed to. Drawing all those factors together, Linden argues that human individuality is key to how we live as individuals and groups and explores how questions of individuality are informing social discussions of morality, public policy, religion, healthcare, education, and law. Like Carl Zimmer's She Has Her Mother's Laugh and Robert Sapolsky's Behave, Unique unveils a new vista on theintricacies of human existence. But, for all its brilliance and insight, this is no weighty academic tome. Told with Linden's unusual combination of authority and openness, seriousness of purpose and a great sense of humor, Unique sets a new standard forwhat popular science can be"--
Subjects: Individuality.; Neurophysiology.; Neurobiology.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Brain : injury, illness and health / by Parker, Steve.(CARDINAL)425446;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An introduction to the human brain, including parts, functions, development, injuries and disorders.6.6-8.IG1090L
Subjects: Brain.; Brain; Neurophysiology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mind / by Restak, Richard,1942-(CARDINAL)139153;
Includes bibliographical references (page 321) and index.Search for mind -- Development -- Aging -- Addiction -- Pain and healing -- Depression -- Language -- Thinking -- The violent mind.Human beings have searched for the meaning of mind since earliest times, in myth and poetry, in philosophy and religion and in science. This lavishly illustrated book records that search - the search for who we are.
Subjects: Brain.; Neurophysiology.; Neuropsychology.; Neuropsychiatry.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Best of the brain from Scientific American / by Bloom, Floyd E.(CARDINAL)506000;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Brain.; Cognitive neuroscience.; Neurophysiology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M.,author.(CARDINAL)328471;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The behavior -- One second before -- Seconds to minutes before -- Hours to days before -- Days to months before -- Adolescence: or, Dude, where's my frontal cortex? -- Back to the crib, back to the womb -- Back to when you were just a fertilized egg -- Centuries to millennia before -- The evolution of behavior -- Us versus them -- Hierarchy, obedience, and resistance -- Morality and doing the right thing, once you've figured out what that is -- Feeling someone's pain, understanding someone's pain, alleviating someone's pain -- Metaphors we kill by -- Biology, the criminal justice system, and (oh, why not?) free will -- War and peace."Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. "--
Subjects: Neurophysiology.; Neurobiology.; Animal behavior.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 36
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The Neuromuscular physiology glossary. by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Division of Physical Therapy.(CARDINAL)179113;
Subjects: Neurons; Neurophysiology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Physics in mind : a quantum view of the brain / by Loewenstein, Werner R.(CARDINAL)646471;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index."In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein seeks answers to these perplexing questions in the mechanisms of physics. Bringing information theory--the idea that all information can be quantified and encoded in bits--to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, Loewenstein reveals inside the brain a web of immense computational power capable of rendering a coherent representation of the world outside. He guides us on an exhilarating journey along the sensory data stream of the brain--the stream that nurses our cognitions--and we see how the vast amounts of information coming in from the world outside get processed by the web, how its neurons gradually extract meaning from this hodgepodge, and how they arrive at a coherent picture of the world"--
Subjects: Neurophysiology.; Neural networks (Neurobiology); Brain.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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The Nervous system : circuits of communication. by Torstar Books (Firm)(CARDINAL)728487;
Subjects: Nervous system.; Nervous system; Neurophysiology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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