The custom-made brain cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement / Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey.

Author/creator Vincent, Jean-Didier
Other author Lledo, Pierre-Marie.
Format Electronic
EditionEnglish-language edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Uniform titleCerveau sur mesure. English
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Language"Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title-page verso.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013040696
ISBN9780231164504 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231164505 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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