Search results for “[Subject: life-sciences-neuroscience]”

• Author(s): Sally Satel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceThis provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain i...

• Author(s): Gregory Berns • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive NeuropsychologyA New York Times-bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, ar...

• Author(s): Shimon Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyWhen fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven words -- they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, a...

• Author(s): Gregory Berns • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Neuroscience"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." -- Dr. Temple Grandin What is it like to be a dog? ...

• Author(s): Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental BiologyA renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo rese...

• Author(s): David Linden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyInspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of ...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyThe first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?

• Author(s): Stephen M. Fleming • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive NeuropsychologyUnlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the hu...

• Author(s): Roy J. Mathew • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralIn The True Path, Duke psychiatrist Roy J. Mathew draws on his own extensive knowledge of neuroscience as he looks at the centuries-old Indian id...

• Author(s): Alfonso Martinez Arias • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Developmental Biology"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the ke...

• Author(s): Andrea Rock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: DreamsOver the past few decades, there has been a revolution in scientific knowledge about why we dream, what's actually happening to the brain when we do...

• Author(s): Jerome Kagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - ChildAs infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon,...

• Author(s): Thomas Suddendorf • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionThere exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilization...

• Author(s): Benjamin K. Bergen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool f...

• Author(s): Susan Goldin-Meadow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, which "chang...

• Author(s): Jay Ingram • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyWhy does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees ...

• Author(s): Charles Fernyhough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our heads At the moment you ...

• Author(s): Albert-Laszlo Barabasi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Chaotic Behavior in SystemsThe best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of ...

• Author(s): Johnjoe McFadden • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social Aspects"In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guid...

• Author(s): David Shaddock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralShaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking ...

• Author(s): Massimo Pigliucci • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyHow should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential q...

• Author(s): Clarice M. Yentsch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Careers - GeneralAn in-depth look at hidden prejudices against women in the scientific fields, and how women can overcome them.

• Author(s): Daniel Bor • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceConsciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fi...

• Author(s): Henry Nicholls • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA narcoleptic's tireless journey through the neuroscience of disordered sleep Whether it's a bout of bad jet lag or a stre...

• Author(s): Kelly Lambert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - DepressionToday's young adults are up to ten times more likely to experience depression than their grandparents were. Could it be that...

• Author(s): Suzanne Corkin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in a...