"With excerpts from international specialists in the field of neurobiology, this book presents state of the art research on the neurobiological aspects of depression. It discusses opioid and endocannabinoid systems and depression and explores other sources for depression provide…
Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. It builds sprawling cities, vast cornfields, coffee plantations, and complex microchips; it takes us from the atom to the limits of the universe. Understanding how brains build intelligence is among the most fascinat…
Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. It builds sprawling cities, vast cornfields, coffee plantations, and complex microchips; it takes us from the atom to the limits of the universe. Understanding how brains build intelligence is among the most fascinat…
Drawing on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics, this book explores how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles to produce human motion in relation to biomechanical principles. It offers an introduction to the biomechanical terms and concepts used to describ…
Med afsæt i forfatterens skilsmisse giver hun et videnskabeligt perspektiv på kærlighed, sex, pardannelse og parforhold ved at opsøge forskere og se på en række nyere studier, bl.a. af virkningen af dopamin, oxytocin og vasopressin, af dna-analyser, genetik og hormoner, kortlægn…
"How Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience the range of sensations and mental states known as feelings. Drawing on his own cutting-edge resea…
"Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt …
"Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt …
Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits this important question -one that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more than a century. Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynam…
"[I]s psychopathy a brain disorder, as many scientists now claim? Or is it just a reflection of modern society's deepest fears? The Myth of the Born Criminal offers the first comprehensive critique of the concept of psychopathy from the eighteenth-century origins of the born-cri…
