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FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS IN NEUROSCIENCE (^) A Brain—Mind Odyssey DAVID E. PRESTI Bet W.W. Norton & Company New York » London A ...

The Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology Louis Cozolino, PhD, Series Editor Allan N. Schore, PhD, Series Editor, 2007- Da ...

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Contents List of Figures Preface: From Molecules to Consciousness Origins Nervous Systems and Brains Chemistry and Life Genes a ...

Tongue and Taste Eyes and Vision Ears and Hearing Skin, Touch, and Movement Imaging the Brain Connectivity, Language, and Meani ...

List of Figures 1.1. Paleolithic drawings in Chauvet Cave 2.1. Nerve cell and astrocyte glial cell 2.2. Compass jellyfish, Chrys ...

2.16. Neuron drawings: human cerebellum and cerebral cortex 3.1. Periodic table of chemical elements 3.2. Diagram of phospholipi ...

6.4. EPSPs and IPSPs generated in the dendritic field 6.5. Ionotropic receptor 6.6. GPCR and its intracellular cascade 7.1. Musc ...

11.1. 11.2. 11.3. 11.4. 11.5. 11.6. 11.7. 12.1. 12.2. 12.3. 12.4. 13.1. 13.2. Bacterial flagella Phototropism in a Phycomyces sp ...

15.6. Sound waveforms from various sources 15.7. Jew’s harp 15.8. Fourier decomposition of sound produced by a Jew’s harp 15.9. ...

20.1. Progression through NREM and REM stages during sleep 21.1. Chimpanzee facial expression 21.2. Muscles of the human face 21 ...

Preface: From Molecules to Consciousness Neuroscience—the science of brain and behavior—is one of the most exciting fields in th ...

of how nervous systems work and how the workings of our nervous system relate to our mind and our behavior. My description is co ...

frequently. An instructor using this book for a class can always keep things current by supplementing with additional material d ...

enjoyed awesome success over the last several centuries in accounting for a great deal of what we observe. From the farthest rea ...

FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS IN NEUROSCIENCE (^) A Brain-Mind Odyssey ...

CHAPTER 1 Origins Early in the winter of 1994, a trio of speleologists made an amazing find: a limestone cavern in the south of ...

so much of our daily lives. Without these distractions, darkness can become a catalyst to enter the inner recesses of the mind, ...

Figure 1.1. Masterpiece of Paleolithic art: four horses and other animals, drawn in charcoal on the wall of Chauvet Cave. How fa ...