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The custom-made brain : cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement / Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vincent, Jean-Didier, author.
- Lledo, Pierre-Marie, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Cerveau sur mesure. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Brain--Physiology.
- Brain.
- Brain stimulation.
- Neurophysiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 180 pages :) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- "Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title page verso.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- And then there was shape. Behind diversity in the animal kingdom, a single plan ; When the zootype becomes neuronal ; The shapes we have inherited ; The conductor of the orchestra ; The story of the embryo ; Signals and mechanism ; Our new head ; Migrants on the road ; How to build a vertebrate
- The masterpiece. The cortical brain ; What is inside a walnut? ; Limbo of the mind ; The vertebrate : an emancipated animal!
- The workshop of the brain. Tissue regeneration ; New neurons in the adult ; Juvenile plasticity ; Connectional plasticity in the adult brain ; Olfaction : the prototype of epigenesis ; When the brain goes wrong ; When the cortex takes over a grafted limb ; Meditation and cerebral plasticity ; Plasticity in Homo cultiorus
- The brain under repair. Disheartening statistics ; The aging brain ; Dementia and other cerebral pathology ; Diseases of the mind ; When the brain takes over a lost limb ; The wounded brain, the incomplete brain ; The brain under stress ; Cognitive remediation
- The enhanced brain. The cerebots are coming ; I think, therefore I act ; The neurologist's Rosetta Stone ; Robots with neurons ; Fiat lux ; Brain doping ; The infinitely small in our brain ; the birth of the first nanoelements ; Nanotechnology and medicine ; When nanoscience merges with life ; Neurofeedback : cerebral bodybuilding ; The transhuman brain.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Le cerveau sur mesure.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0231534213
- 9780231534215
- Publisher Number:
- 99972872114
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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