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1 online resource (194 pages) |
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""Discovering the Brain""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""1 The Promise of Neuroscience""; ""APPROACHING THE BRAIN FROM ALL ANGLES""; ""WHAT MAKES THIS SCIENCE NEW?""; ""THE DEDICATION OF A DECADE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""2 Major Structures and Functions of the Brain""; ""VENTRICLES""; ""BRAINSTEM""; ""THALAMUS AND HYPOTHALAMUS""; ""PITUITARY AND PINEAL GLANDS""; ""THE ""LITTLE BRAIN"" AT THE BACK OF THE HEAD""; ""RETICULAR NETWORK""; ""THE ""EMOTIONAL BRAIN""""; ""HIPPOCAMPUS""; ""CEREBRAL CORTEX""; ""BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE BRAIN""; ""CHEMICAL AND ELECTRICAL SIGNALS"" |
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""3 Glimpses of the Living Brain""""THE BRIGHT IMAGES OF PET""; ""MEDICAL IMAGES OF EMOTION""; ""THE X-RAY TODAY""; ""CREATING PICTURES FROM MAGNETIC WAVES AND SOUND WAVES""; ""REWARDING COMBINATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""4 The Role of the Brain in Mental Illness""; ""MANIC-DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS""; ""OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER""; ""PANIC DISORDER""; ""ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE""; ""AIDS-RELATED DEMENTIA""; ""DISORDERS OF MOOD AND MIND""; ""SCHIZOPHRENIA""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""5 From Chemistry to Circuitry""; ""CHEMICALS AS SIGNALS""; ""RECEPTORS PLAY AN ACTIVE PART"" |
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""THE BRAIN'S OWN PAINKILLERS""""FOCUSING IN ON RECEPTOR SITES""; ""THE INTRIGUING ROLE OF THE ION CHANNELS""; ""THE CASE OF THE 5-SECOND MESSENGER MOLECULE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""6 The Development and Shaping of the Brain""; ""STUDYING THE BRAIN IN DEVELOPMENT""; ""MASS PRODUCTION OF BRAIN CELLS""; ""MIGRATION TO THE CEREBRAL CORTEX""; ""THE FORMATION OF SYNAPSES AND REGIONS""; ""CELLULAR COMPETITION""; ""EXPLORING NEW AREAS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""7 From Perception to Attention""; ""PATHWAYS OF INFORMATION IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM""; ""SEEING THE PATTERNS IN VISUAL SIGNALS"" |
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""THE BRAIN'S SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL PERCEPTION""""MAKING SENSE OF MOVEMENT""; ""ATTENTION: A SUBJECT WORTH LOOKING AT""; ""THE ANATOMY OF ATTENTION""; ""NEURAL CIRCUITRY OF AN ATTENTION SYSTEM""; ""DEVELOPING PATHWAYS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD""; ""PATHOLOGY IN THE ATTENTION SYSTEM AND BEYOND""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""8 Learning, Recalling, and Thinking""; ""A MOLECULAR ACCOUNT OF LONG-TERM MEMORY""; ""THE WORLD IN THE FRONT OF THE BRAIN""; ""NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND THE INFORMATION SYSTEM""; ""WHAT KIND OF COMPUTER IS THIS?""; ""ASSEMBLING A BRAIN IN THE LABORATORY"" |
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""THE BENEFITS OF AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN""""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""9 Sizing Up the Promise""; ""DEFINING THE FIELD OF INQUIRY""; ""SCIENCE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE ADVOCACY""; ""THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS SPONSOR OF RESEARCH""; ""PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS""; ""A FUTURE RICH WITH CHALLENGES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Proclamation""; ""Index"" |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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United States. Joint Resolution to Designate the Decade Beginning January 1, 1990, as the "Decade of the Brain" -- Congresses
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Joint Resolution to Designate the Decade Beginning January 1, 1990, as the "Decade of the Brain" (United States) fast (OCoLC)fst01379014 |
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Brain.
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Neurology.
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Neurobiology.
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Brain
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Neurology
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Neurobiology
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brains.
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Brain.
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Neurobiology.
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Neurology.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309572309 |
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0309572304 |
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