Brain Bugs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brain Bugs write by Dean Buonomano. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Brain Bugs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The Atlantic The human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make misguided personal, professional, and financial decisions. Whether explaining why we are susceptible to advertisements or demonstrating how false memories are formed, Brain Bugs not only explains the brain’s inherent flaws but also gives us the tools to counteract them.
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time write by Dean Buonomano. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel"—simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.
Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior
Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior write by Teri Arranga. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are sixty to seventy million people affected by digestive diseases in the United States. The old proverb tells us “you are what you eat,” and the latest science shows that this may be truer than we even thought. Diet has a profound effect on both physical and mental health. Most of the body’s immune system is in the gut, so pathology and dysfunction in the gut and imbalanced gut flora can cause neuroinflammation and possibly even neurodegenerative disease over time. Featuring contributions from dozens of experts on gut disorders and related physical, mental, and behavioral health, this book will fascinate you as you read about the intriguing world of bad bugs, cytokine storms, and the environment in your belly that influences your brain. From the microscopic world of Clostridium to the complex communities of biofilm, Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior emphasizes one simple fact: The gut is connected to the brain.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind write by Julian Jaynes. This book was released on 2000-08-15. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
The Anatomy of Violence
The Anatomy of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anatomy of Violence write by Adrian Raine. This book was released on 2013. The Anatomy of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. With an 8-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
