Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"From a neurologist whose work offers one of the most promising paths to unraveling the mystery of consciousness, an exploration of consciousness unlike any other. Somehow our soul, our consciousness, our world, all is generated by what's inside our skull. This is the essential question of neurology. Consciousness cannot just rest inside the shroud of science, because consciousness is more than an object of science: it is its subject, too. In PHI,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Con tan solo 1,5 kg de peso, el cerebro tiene en su interior casi 100.000 millones de neuronas sincronizadas entre sí que nos permiten lleva a cabo desde una acción tan simple como pestañear, hasta el pensamiento filosófico más elaborado y complejo. Este órgano se halla en el ojo del huracán de la investigación científica mundial y, sin embargo, aún atesora más preguntas que respuestas"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Fahama cayó presa del Dr. Cerebellum y su asistente zombie, y su única salvación es hacerlo hablar incansablemente sobre el cerebro. Incapaz de resistirse, el científico loco le explicará a su rehén todo sobre las neuronas, cuáles son las partes del cerebro y sus funciones, cómo opera la memoria, cómo se conforma la personalidad, qué pasa con los sentidos y cuál es la historia de nuestras ideas sobre este indispensable y complejo órgano,...
Series
Language
English
Description
The human brain could easily be called the most mysterious yet fascinating organ in the human body. This program illustrates how the brain performs a number of tasks taken for granted including how it controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing; how it accepts and deciphers an incredibly vast amount of information about the world from the various senses as well as how brains subconsciously deal with fear and danger.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Keywords: interpersonal neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, mindsight, mindfulness training, mindfulness, contemplative practices, brain development, developmental psychology, child development, attachment theory, theory of mind, human nature, psychotherapy, textbooks, texts This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Professor Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University explores the health effects of stress on the human body, why some individuals cope with stress better than others, what socioeconomic status has to do with stress and health, and various methods for managing stress.
Language
English
Description
"[The film] provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains. The program follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music's deep mysteries"--Container.
Language
English
Description
An exploration at the crossroads of mysticism and healing, religion and physics, which challenges modern Western ideas with an alternative view of human consiousness--a theory of mind independent of physical matter, time, and space. Drawing on scientific experimental data, as well as miraculous cures and events, Dr. Dossey presents evidence for a non-localized, holistic view of the mind.
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Wyrusz w pełną przygód podróż po uśpionym mózgu i dowiedz się, dlaczego co noc się wyłącza. Będziesz towarzyszyć młodemu neuronowi, który w korze czołowej pracuje nad skomplikowaną rzeźbą i nie ma ochoty spać. Rusza więc po różnych rejonach śpiącego mózgu. Podczas tej pouczającej wycieczki dowie się, czym są sny; gdzie są zapisywane wspomnienia i zrozumie, dlaczego trzeba się wysypiać. Książka ma formę powieści...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book explores how we can measure consciousness. It clarifies what consciousness is, how it can be generated from a physical system, and how it can be measured. It also shows how conscious states can be expressed mathematically and how precise predictions can be made using data from neurophysiological studies.
Author
Language
English
Description
Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking. Because we are primates, ingesting more calories in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex -- the part...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request