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"Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today, no matter how old you are now"--
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A neuroscientist's groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset--your brain.Your brain is the most essential organ in your body. The brain and spinal cord are intimately connected to every bodily system and organ, so when it is balanced everything in your body and mind will function more efficiently. It's vitally important to take proactive steps now, or you risk losing everything, including...
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Unearthing the untold history of how artists, scientists and authors have used mental extensions to solve, discover and create, an acclaimed science journalist presents a dramatic new view of how our minds work, offering practical advice on how we can all think better.--
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¿Hay una ciencia de las ideas? Este libro es un apasionado y documentado "¡Sí!" a esa pregunta, que da incluso un paso más. Existe una ciencia de las buenas ideas, esas que resuelven problemas y abren caminos intransitados, una ciencia fundamental no solo para el laboratorio sino para la vida cotidiana y también para aquellas empresas y proyectos que andan buscando la innovación que hoy es parte de todo desarrollo exitoso. En síntesis, una...
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Ralph Adolphs is the Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center. He is the coeditor of Living without an Amygdala. David J. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical...
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Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem...
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La consciencia humana es un dispositivo extraordinario que nos convierte en un ser vivo excepcional. Nos permite saber que existimos, que tenemos un pasado y un futuro y que hemos de morir. Nos faculta para pensar, sentir, intuir y desplazarnos con nuestra imaginación a lo largo y ancho del tiempo y el espacio. Y posibilita que creamos en cosas que no podemos ver, como dioses y espíritus, o incluso que alberguemos la esperanza de pervivir más allá...
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Belief, superstition, and conspiracy... Where did they come from?
How did our species evolve from stone axe chippers living in dank caves to the architects of artificial intelligence living in air-conditioned high-rise penthouses?As author Jim Bucko explains, our tool-making capability seems to have preceded and then paralleled other developments in human language, art, ritual behavior, and reasoning which have led us to today, and set us up for...
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Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war...
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Alors que l'on définissait un neurone exclusivement par ses caractéristiques morphologiques et électrophysiologiques, on peut maintenant y ajouter un caractère essentiel: la nature du neurorégulateur qu'il synthétise et qu'il libère. Le formidable développement de la biochimie et de la pharmacologie...
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In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate. His struggle to identify the agent responsible for ravaging the brains of animals suffering from scrapie and mad cow disease, and of humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, had been waged largely alone and in some cases in the face of strenuous...
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