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The custom-made brain cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement

Title
The custom-made brain [electronic resource] : cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement / Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey.
Author
Vincent, Jean-Didier.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

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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
  • Brain > Physiology
  • Brain stimulation
  • Neurophysiology
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.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Lledo, Pierre-Marie.
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