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Author Taylor, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Eleanor)

Title The brain supremacy : notes from the frontiers of neuroscience / Kathleen Taylor
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introducing the brain supremacy -- The many powers of science -- Could we read minds? -- Bring on the designer minds? -- Seeing the brain through many eyes -- To physics, with thanks -- The subatomic chorus -- When currents flow -- Neuroscience goes quantum -- Poke it and see what happens -- Poking people -- Chemical control -- Tweaking genes -- The problems of neurotech -- Creating the brain supremacy
Summary In a world full of science, the balance of power between sciences is changing. Advances in physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences have given us extraordinary control over our world. Now the younger sciences of brain and mind are applying the scientific method not only to our environments, but to us. In recent years funding and effort poured into brain research. We are entering the era of the brain supremacy. What will the new science mean for us, as individuals, consumers, parents and citizens? Should we be excited, or alarmed, by the remarkable promises we read about in the media - pro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-362) and index
Notes English
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Subject Neuropsychology -- Popular works
Cognitive neuroscience -- Popular works
Brain -- Psychophysiology -- Popular works
Neurosciences.
Brain.
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Brain -- physiology
Neurosciences
Brain
brains.
MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
Brain
Brain -- Psychophysiology
Cognitive neuroscience
Neuropsychology
Neurosciences
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012472583
ISBN 9780191506772
019150677X
1299397220
9781299397224
0191506788
9780191506789