Neuroscience
Looking for reading material for a longish train trip I am about to take, I decided to hit to bookshelves of my Square's Barnes & Noble to see what popular neuroscience titles might be a good diversion (as well as potential supplementary 'lighter' references, should I re-teach an introductory course to neuroscience sometime over the next year).
I chose three.
The first is by Elkhonon Goldberg, a revision of an earlier work, which is titled "The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World" and is available in paperback by Oxford University Press. I first met the author when I was a graduate student, so I am looking forward to reading up on what he's been up to.
The second is about glial cells and is entitled, "The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia" by Andrew Koob. Five years ago, if someone said there would be a popular offering about glia, I would have thought 'Yeah, right...' Though I do enjoy adding discussion about glia to my teaching, I never thought I'd see such a book, published by FT Press, on the shelves. I posted an entry about glial cells on the blog in August.
The final book is about empathy and "mirror neurons." Social cognition has become a popular topic over the past decade and I am looking forward to reading what Marco Iacoboni has written about this in his book, published by Picador.
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Neuroscience
Popular Neuroscience: Books for a Long Train Ride
Looking for reading material for a longish train trip I am about to take, I decided to hit to bookshelves of my Square's Barnes & Noble to see what popular neuroscience titles might be a good diversion (as well as potential supplementary 'lighter' references, should I re-teach an introductory course to neuroscience sometime over the next year).
I chose three.
The first is by Elkhonon Goldberg, a revision of an earlier work, which is titled "The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World" and is available in paperback by Oxford University Press. I first met the author when I was a graduate student, so I am looking forward to reading up on what he's been up to.
The second is about glial cells and is entitled, "The Root of Thought: Unlocking Glia" by Andrew Koob. Five years ago, if someone said there would be a popular offering about glia, I would have thought 'Yeah, right...' Though I do enjoy adding discussion about glia to my teaching, I never thought I'd see such a book, published by FT Press, on the shelves. I posted an entry about glial cells on the blog in August.
The final book is about empathy and "mirror neurons." Social cognition has become a popular topic over the past decade and I am looking forward to reading what Marco Iacoboni has written about this in his book, published by Picador.
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"We only use 10% of our brains" is one of the most commonly held brain myths. But as the Neuroscience for Kids website tells us, There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains.Neuroscientists, of course, already know that....
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Just finished reading three excellent books with neuro themes, one a work of fiction and the other two are narrative accounts: "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova (available in paperback by iUniverse Press), is a very accurate dramatic fictional account of early-onset...
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I've been meaning to blog about the recent Wall Street Journal article "Your E-Book Is Reading You" and now there's a companion post to write: "Mendeley Injects Some Pace into Academia with Fast, Big Data" (reporting by GigaOM). Both talk...