Wang, Sam
Summary: In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 NEUCall number: DVD 612.8 NEU
Summary: This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 UNDCall number: DVD 612.82 UND
Linden, David J.
Summary: "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, he got 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 LINWolf, Maryanne.
Summary: A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 WOLFPerlmutter, David
Summary: The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Grain Brain and his son, also a medical doctor, explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing. Includes a ten-day practical program with meal plan and recipes. Modern culture is rewiring our brains and damaging our health. We immerse ourselves in foods whenever we want; enter an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020
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Summary: Describes the different parts of the brain and what each part does, how the brain learns and grows, and brain functions such as memory, body regulation, and consciousness. Includes simple activities related to brain function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 611 TREAamodt, Sandra.
Summary: We use our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they work. Much of what we think we know comes from folklore: that we only use 10 percent of our brain, or that drinking kills brain cells. These and other myths are wrong, as shown by neuroscientists who have spent decades studying this complex organ. However, most of what they have learned is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 AAMHumphrey, Nicholas
Summary: "An accessible overview of Humphrey's evolving views on consciousness -- particularly the topic of phenomenal consciousness -- from his early neurophysiology studies in the 1960's to his debates with philosophers today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Loewenstein, Werner R.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2013
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Summary: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011