Star Trek on the Brain - 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 Star Trek on the Brain write by Robert Sekuler. This book was released on 1999-09-01. Star Trek on the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uses episodes from science fiction television programs and Star Trek movies to explain current research developments in neuroscience and psychology
The Realization of Star Trek Technologies
The Realization of Star Trek Technologies - 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 Realization of Star Trek Technologies write by Mark E. Lasbury. This book was released on 2016-08-24. The Realization of Star Trek Technologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life. This book merges Star Trek scientific lore—how the science of the time informed the implementation of technology in the series—and the science as it is playing out today. Scientists and engineers have made and continue to develop replicators, teletransporters, tractor beams, and vision restoring visors. This book combines the vision of 1966 science fiction with the latest research in physics, biotechnology, and engineering.
Jane on the Brain
Jane on the Brain - 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 Jane on the Brain write by Wendy Jones. This book was released on 2017-12-05. Jane on the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence—and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection. Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma’s mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers? We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories—the human brain is a social brain, and Austen’s characters are so believable that, for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings, but friends whom we know and love. And thanks to Austen’s ability to capture the breadth and depth of human psychology so thoroughly, we feel that she empathizes with us. Humans have a profound need for empathy, to know that we are not alone with our joys and sorrows. We see ourselves and others reflected in Austen’s work. Social intelligence is one of the most highly developed human traits when compared with other animals. How did it evolve? Why is it so valuable? Wendy Jones explores the many facets of social intelligence and juxtaposes them with the Austen cannon. Brilliantly original and insightful, this fusion of psychology, neuroscience, and literature provides a heightened understanding of one of our most beloved cultural institutions—and our own minds.
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness - 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 On Fire: My Month of Madness write by Susannah Cahalan. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. Brain on Fire is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self. Brain on Fire is a mesmerizing story' -Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain - 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 Woman Who Changed Her Brain write by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young. This book was released on 2013-09-17. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Previously published in hardcover: New York: Free Press, 2012.
