neurosciences

"The last few months have been a whirlwind for Cammie MacCloud. Ever since she agreed to join the gen:LOCK program to help fight the Union, an authoritarian force threatening the world, she's been struggling to find her place in the group. As a seventeen-year-old genius hacker, she doesn't really fit in among the other recruits: She can't shoot, she isn't the most graceful in the field, and her brash style doesn't exactly jibe with Command. But Cammie notices things the others don't, and she has the skills to investigate when something feels off ... like their latest mission, which finds them stranded at the center of a deadly storm with a Union spy in their midst"--Back cover.

"[The author] unlocks the . . . mysteries of the human brain by examining nine . . . cases [of rare brain disorders]"--Dust jacket.

"[The author] unlocks the . . . mysteries of the human brain by examining nine . . . cases [of rare brain disorders]"--Dust jacket.

"With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing demands on our attention, we are confronted every day with a plethora of new challenges. Fortunately, as Leonard Mlodinow shows, the human brain is uniquely engineered to adapt.

"Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories"--OCLC.

"Students will gain an appreciation for all of the ways that the brain makes everyday life possible. Memory, consciousness, perception, emotion, and other complex functions are explained in depth with simple text and . . . illustrations, diagrams, and infographics"--Provided by publisher.

"Presents a strong argument against the disease model of addiction, which is currently predominant in medicine and popular culture alike, and bolsters it with informative and engaging narratives of addicts' lives ... Even when presenting more technical information, Lewis shows a keen ability to put a human face on the most groundbreaking research into addiction. Likewise, he manages to make complex findings and theories both comprehensible and interesting... This book, written with hopeful sincerity, will intrigue both those who accept its thesis and those who do not."--Publishers Weekly.

Neuroscientist, blogger, and author Burnett offers a humorous, inside look at how the human brain works, and the strange things it does including develop superstitions and conspiracy theories, have blackouts and insomnia, and remember faces but not names.

Examines the partnership of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky whose work in the study of human decision-making led to the development of the field of behavioral economics and earned Kahneman a Nobel Prize after Tversky's death.

The author argues that the brain is an organ, and that the soul like qualities we attribute to it are more often myth than fact. That the ability to act with freewill is overestimated because the brain cannot be separated from the body or its surroundings, and that if we focus exclusively on the brain to explain behavior using faulty neuroscience then external psychophysiological factors are overlooked that can lead to mental illness.