- Additional Authors
- Lledo, Pierre-Marie.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 180 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Cerveau sur mesure. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cerveau sur mesure.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- "Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title-page verso.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013040696
- OCLC
- ssj0001193839
- Author
Vincent, Jean-Didier.
- Title
The custom-made brain [electronic resource] : cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement / Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Edition
English-language edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
"Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title-page verso.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Lledo, Pierre-Marie.