Neuroscience
While travelling on neuropsych business over the past week, I've been totally enjoying the new collaboration between Dana Press and Dr. Floyd Bloom - an edited book of feature articles from Scientific American.
The book contains 21 articles of the many that have appeared in the magazine from 1999 onward.
My favorite is the last one, "The Quest for a Smart Pill," by Stephen Hall. I may be mistaken, but I believe Hall has also written on this topic for the journal, Science. It deals with memory- and other cognitive-function- enhancing drugs currently under development by a number of biotech companies and some of the ethical issues involved in this domain.
Good reads on the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders and computer-brain interfaces also are included. Articles by Antonio Damasio, Eric Kandel, and Fred Gage are representative of some of the neuroscientific leaders found in the book. Science journalist Carl Zimmer is represented, as well.
List price of $25.00, The Best of the Brain from Scientific American, edited by Floyd Bloom (Dana Press, 2007).
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Neuroscience
The Best of the Brain
While travelling on neuropsych business over the past week, I've been totally enjoying the new collaboration between Dana Press and Dr. Floyd Bloom - an edited book of feature articles from Scientific American.
The book contains 21 articles of the many that have appeared in the magazine from 1999 onward.
My favorite is the last one, "The Quest for a Smart Pill," by Stephen Hall. I may be mistaken, but I believe Hall has also written on this topic for the journal, Science. It deals with memory- and other cognitive-function- enhancing drugs currently under development by a number of biotech companies and some of the ethical issues involved in this domain.
Good reads on the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders and computer-brain interfaces also are included. Articles by Antonio Damasio, Eric Kandel, and Fred Gage are representative of some of the neuroscientific leaders found in the book. Science journalist Carl Zimmer is represented, as well.
List price of $25.00, The Best of the Brain from Scientific American, edited by Floyd Bloom (Dana Press, 2007).
- C-span Video Library: Carl Zimmer's Soul Made Flesh
C-SPAN Video Library: Carl Zimmer's "Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain": Watch the Talk From 23 February 2004, "Carl Zimmer talked about his book, Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, published by The...
- A Holiday Stocking Stuffer
Just in time for gift-giving, Dana Press released earlier this month a paperback version of its 2003 resource on family-friendly brain health. A quick look at the 2006 release shows a very impressive resource about the healthy and disordered nervous system...
- Self-awareness
The November 2005 issue of Scientific American includes an article by Carl Zimmer, The Neurobiology of the Self. Update 26 October 2005 - Carl Zimmer has placed a link to a .pdf version of this article on his blog. - Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience...
- Science (fact) Writing
John the Science Librarian just blogged Cognitive Daily: How to report scientific research to a general audience in his entry called Writing about science. Since I have some time on my hands (not teaching this semester, gasp!), I've been reading a...
- Podcasts Rock
Well, I am a complete convert to the joys of (listening to) podcasts. Now that they're in iTunes and easy enough for a person's father to use, I am finally using them. (And there will be lots of commuting time in my future during which I can listen...