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 |
| Edition | English-language edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] |
| Description | xiv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Cerveau 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | "Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title-page verso. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013040696 |
| ISBN | 9780231164504 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231164505 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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