Neurosciences Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methodologies and Design in
Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides an overview of neuroscience-driven research methodologies and how those methodologies might be applied to theory-based research in the nascent field of neuroentrepreneurship. A key challenge of this field is that few neuroscientists are trained as entrepreneurship scholars and few entrepreneurship scholars are trained as neuroscientists, but this book skillfully bridges that gap. Expert contributors include concrete examples of new ways to conduct research in their contributions, which have the potential to shed light onto areas such as decision making and opportunity recognition and allow neuroentrepreneurs to ask different, perhaps better, questions than ever before. This Handbook also presents current thinking and examples of pioneering work, serves as a reference for those wishing to incorporate these methods into their own research, and provides several helpful discussions on the nature of answerable questions using neuroscience techniques. Neuroentrepreneurship is an important, emerging field for neuroscientists and entrepreneurship scholars alike. For the former audience, this book presents concrete research questions and entrepreneurship applications; for the latter, it serves as a primer and introduction to neuroscientific methods. Graduate students studying entrepreneurship, and practitioners who are keen to promote innovation and entrepreneurial skills in their leadership, will also find this Handbook to be of interest.Contributors include: W. Becker, C. Bellavitis, M.C. Boardman, M. Colosio, C. Couffe, M. Day, P.M. de Holan, A.A. Gorin, S. Guillory, N. Krueger, A. Passarelli, V. Pérez-Centeno, C. Reeck, L. Schjoedt, K.G. Shaver, A. Sud, T. Treffers, M.K. WardTrade Review'By bringing together neurological science with entrepreneurship studies, the editors of this book have created startling new insights, methodologies, and ultimately an important new field. This pathbreaking new book will cause scholars in both areas to rethink their traditional methods, topics and reach of their research.' --David Audretsch, Indiana University, Bloomington, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Mellani Day, Mary C. Boardman and Norris Krueger Part I Neuroscience Principles, Techniques and Tools 2. Brain-Driven Entrepreneurship Research: A Review and Research Agenda Víctor Pérez-Centeno 3. Human Psychophysiological and Genetic Approaches in Neuroentrepreneurship Marco Colosio, Cristiano Bellavitis and Alexei A. Gorin 4. Unpacking Neuroentrepreneurship: Conducting Entrepreneurship Research with EEG Technologies Pablo Martin De Holan and Cyril Couffe 5. A Brief Primer on Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in Entrepreneurship Research M. K. Ward, Crystal Reeck and William Becker 6. Experimental Methodological Principles for Entrepreneurship Research Using Neuroscience Techniques Víctor Pérez-Centeno Part II Neuroscience Applications - Entrepreneurial Judgement, Decision-Making and Cognition 7. Entrepreneurial Return on Investment through a Neuroentrepreneurship Lens Mellani Day and Mary C. Boardman 8. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Entrepreneurial Risk: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Kelly G. Shaver, Leon Schjoedt, Angela Passarelli and Crystal Reeck 9. A Few Words about Entrepreneurial Learning, Training and Brain Plasticity Aparna Sud 10. A Few Words about Neuro-experimental Designs for the Study of Emotions and Cognitions in Entrepreneurship Theresa Treffers 11. Which Tool Should I Use? Neuroscientific Technologies for Brain-Driven Entrepreneurship Researchers Víctor Pérez-Centeno 12. A Few Words about What Neuroentrepreneurship Can and Cannot Help Us With Sean Guillory, Mary C. Boardman and Mellani Day Index
£153.00
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Discovering Odors
Book SynopsisOften taken for granted, the sense of smell has seldom been discussed or understood. However, since the start of the 20th Century, studies in this area have grown exponentially and today there is a greater understanding of the olfactory system at both structural and functional levels. Scientists now concern themselves with questions about the holistic nature of our sense of smell and are investigating the role of odors in interpersonal relations, in food intake processes, in the diagnosis of certain illnesses, and many other areas. The beginnings of this knowledge are as fascinating as they are abundant and numerous disciplines are involved: psychology, physiology, genetics, neuroscience, engineering, etc. This book illustrates and analyzes the current state of advances in research about the smells around us, and the way in which they influence our relationship with the world.Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1. Dr. Følling’s Flair: Discovery of Phenylketonuria by Smell 1 Chapter 2. A Nobel Prize for the Nose and Retraction in Science 5 Chapter 3. Sperm and Lily of the Valley 9 Chapter 4. Vibrational Theory and the Astonishing Story of Researcher Luca Turin 13 Chapter 5. The Famous Madeleines: The Proust Phenomenon, a Scientific Spoliation? 17 Chapter 6. The Smell of Rain 21 Chapter 7. The Neanderthal Nose 25 Chapter 8. Mr. and Mrs. Kallmann Have a Son: When Losing Your Nose and Losing Your Gonads Go Hand in Hand 29 Chapter 9. Whiplash, or Losing Your Sense of Smell Following a Head Injury 33 Chapter 10. Phantom Odors 37 Chapter 11. These Odors That Make Your Head Hurt 41 Chapter 12. The Sleeper’s Nose 45 Chapter 13. Surströmming: The Worst Odor in the World? 49 Chapter 14. It Smells Like Cheese 53 Chapter 15. What Fennel Reveals to Us 57 Chapter 16. Mustard Goes Up My Nose and Onions Make Me Cry: Discovering a Third Unknown Chemical Sense 61 Chapter 17. Lavender at the Dentist: Aromatherapy, a Myth or a Reality? 65 Chapter 18. Catnip and Pregnant Women: Some Variations in Sensitivity to Odors 69 Chapter 19. If You Eat Too Much Fat, You Will Lose Your Sense of Smell 73 Chapter 20. Experts’ Noses 77 Chapter 21. Filled with Smells 81 Chapter 22. Obesity and Chocolate 85 Chapter 23. The Nose on the Plate: A Difficult Scientific Consensus 89 Chapter 24. The Smell of a Hot Croissant: When Our Sense of Smell Nibbles Away at Our Free Will 93 Chapter 25. The Dog That Sniffs Out Cancer 97 Chapter 26. Smells to Cure Cancer? 101 Chapter 27. A Depressed Patient’s Nose 105 Chapter 28. Gogol’s Nose or “Empty Nose” Syndrome 109 Chapter 29. She Smells Parkinson’s 113 Chapter 30. And What Does Parkinson’s Smell Like? 117 Chapter 31. Alzheimer’s Nose: Losing Sense of Smell and Losing Memory, the Same Story? 121 Chapter 32. The Smell of Old People 125 Chapter 33. The Smell of Death 129 Chapter 34. Red Meat, Garlic and Sex Appeal 133 Chapter 35. Tears and Desire: Stop Crying, it Doesn’t Turn Me On Anymore 137 Chapter 36. With a Bad Nose, Comes a Poor Flirt 141 Chapter 37. It’s All in the Sweat 143 Chapter 38. The Smell of Fear 147 Chapter 39. What Epigenetics Owes to the Nose: How Fear Learned From an Odor can be Transmitted to Offspring 151 Chapter 40. Odor and Pain 155 Chapter 41. Odorology 159 Chapter 42. On the Trail of Odors 163 Chapter 43. The Electronic Nose 167 Chapter 44. The Plane Nose: The Methods of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik to Get Up in the Air 171 Chapter 45. The Gender of the Nose 175 Chapter 46. The Newborn’s Nose 179 Chapter 47. The Smell of a Handshake 183 Chapter 48. The Nose and Perfumes 187 Chapter 49. Odors… A Hobby? 191 Chapter 50. Tell Me What You Smell, I’ll Tell You Who You Are, But Not Where You Come From: On Genetic Variations in Odor Perception 195 Conclusion 199 References 201 Index 223
£125.06
CABI Publishing Olfaction in Animal Behaviour and Welfare
Evidence-based, yet entirely practical, this important new text builds upon the basics of neuroscience to describe the links between olfaction and animal behaviour, and the effects of odours in animal welfare. Animals use smells in a multitude of ways: to orientate themselves, to create social bonds, to recognise food, to initiate reproduction, and to avoid predators and imminent threats such as fire. Starting from the scientific basis of olfaction and odour perception, the book covers pheromones and behavioural tests, before describing the role of olfaction in feeding behaviour, reproduction, disease detection, and animal housing. The book: · is written in an evidence-based way, yet with an easy-to-understand style, making it accessible to non-experts · focuses on animals managed by humans, i.e. farm, zoo, lab and companion species · is illustrated by in-depth research examples of many different species This is a captivating introduction to the world of smells, suitable for advanced students, researchers, and teachers of applied ethology, animal welfare and veterinary science.
£46.98
Collective Ink Universe Within: The Surprising Way the Human
Book SynopsisUniverse Within makes the case that the human brain is a physical model of the universe because of structural and dynamical similarities shared between the two systems based on the pictures emerging out of neuroscience and physics, respectively. The relationship between the human brain and the universe revealed by Melvin A. Felton, Jr. might be the missing principle that leads to the theory-of-everything.
£17.09
CABI Publishing Discovery of a Visual System - The Honeybee, The
Book SynopsisThis book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize "things" by their shapes. Yet they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things. In this volume, Adrian Horridge also sets out the curious and contentious history of how bee vision came to be understood, with an account of a century of neglect of old experimental results, errors of interpretation, sharp disagreements, and failures of the scientific method. The design of the experiments and the methods of making inferences from observations are also critically examined, with the conclusion that scientists are often hesitant, imperfect and misleading, ignore the work of others, and fail to consider alternative explanations. The erratic path to understanding makes interesting reading for anyone with an interest in the workings of science but particularly those researching insect vision and invertebrate sensory systems.Table of Contents1: The Difficult Birth of Honeybee Colour Vision 2: No Way to Untie the Spell 3: Innovation, Deep Thought and Hard Work 4: The Fundamentals of the Insect Compound Eye 5: How Bees Distinguish Colours and Modulation 6: Feature Detectors, Cues, Resolution, Preferences and Coincidences 7: Symmetry and Asymmetry: Signposts in Route Finding 8: Bee Vision is Not Adapted for Pattern or Shape 9: The Visual Control of Flight 10: The Route to the Goal and Back Again 11: What Was Not Mentioned 12: What We Learned
£84.02
Kogan Page Ltd Neuroscience for Leaders: Practical Insights to
Book SynopsisUnlock your potential with the latest neuroscientific insights and succeed as a leader in complex business environments. As understanding of neuroscience increases, it is better understood how scientific insights can be applied to develop and enhance leadership. Neuroscience for Leaders captures the most up-to-date and important findings in neuroscience and links these to the business world. This guide offers a simple framework to put these principles into practice to make better decisions, take the right actions and find faster solutions. Now in its second edition, this book presents a comprehensive approach to leading people and organizations based on academic research. The authors' 'Brain Adaptive Leadership' approach offers a step-by-step guide to enhancing the way leaders think, understanding and nurturing emotions, shaping automated brain responses and developing dynamic relationships. Examples, activities and practical suggestions are all designed to be clear and engaging. Neuroscience for Leaders is the essential guide for leaders who are ready to gain the business advantage scientifically.Trade Review"Leading a company successfully isn't easy. And since times are changing more rapidly than ever, your leadership skills need to adapt too. The Brain Adaptive Leadership model explained in this book provides the understanding and the practical methods for upgrading your leadership skills for the challenges to come." * Patrick De Pauw, CEO, Social Seeder *"A timely book by Dr. Dimitriadis and Prof. Psychogios in this transformative moment, as the world sheds its old skin. Neuroscience for Leaders is a clarion call to business leaders and to the world's growing human-centered economy movement. The book offers insightful and practical approaches and frameworks necessary for leading a sustainable and meaningful socio-economic environment." * Siamak Z. Salimpour, Founder, Alchemy of Work *"HR professionals worldwide are under pressure to upgrade their game by incorporating innovative methods and new ideas into their practices. At the same time, uncertainty and complexity being higher than ever have reinforced the belief that a strong focus on people is the only meaningful way forward for all companies, regardless of industry or location. Putting people at the very center of what you do requires a better understanding of what it means to be human, how we make decisions and what drives our behavior. Since neuroscience sheds a new light into human nature, this book is an important step towards this direction. Highly recommended." * Alexis Doukas, CEO, Optimal HR Group *"With leadership remaining an ongoing challenge, this book finally sets the record straight that intelligence matters not least because it combines cognitive, emotional and intuitive dimensions." * Elena Antonacopoulou, Professor, GNOSIS, University of Liverpool Management School (about a previous edition) *"I firmly believe that business results are the direct outcome of collective efforts, guided by a strong vision and even stronger leadership. However, until now the true nature of leadership was difficult to explain, regardless experiencing it daily. Dr Dimitriadis and Dr Psychogios have managed to untangle the mystery of effective leadership by revealing how the brain works in complex business environments. Read it, practise it and become a great leader!" * Maria Anargyrou-Nikolic, General Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (about a previous edition) *"There are many books on leadership - perhaps too many! However, this book is well worth reading. The authors have done a really great job in bringing together developments in neuroscience and thinking about leadership to produce a thought provoking view of leadership. They make the complex area of neuroscience very accessible and use this to produce a really helpful framework for thinking about leadership. The authors have achieved a fine balance between the rigour of their arguments and the practical applications of the framework that they have developed. Even if you have a lot of books on leadership on your shelves you should make room for this one." * Malcolm Higgs, Professor of Organization Behaviour and HRM, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton (about a previous edition) *"Neuroscience is invading every scientific, economic and social aspect more and more. This book is the brilliant confirmation that understanding the mechanisms, processes and functions of the brain can help us solve problems, distinguish leaders from regular managers and uncover the right answers for generating growth." * Matteo Venerucci, Cognitive Psychologist and Brain Propaganda Founder (about a previous edition) *"An amazing compendium that will certainly assist managers and professionals in advancing their leadership skills. The book deals with the subject of this interdisciplinary research to resolve complex problems while facing challenging environments. The authors have included numerous examples from a practical and holistic perspective in order to illustrate how to create common ground about our adaptive leadership and how to put into action our leadership brain capabilities by applying their proposed BAL model. It is a fascinating book which will change your life." * Panayiotis H Ketikidis BSc MSc PhD, Professor, University of Sheffield International Faculty, City College and Chairman of the South East European Research Centre (about a previous edition) *"Leadership as an attitude? Yes. Read through and you will find it in your brain! This book will help you get acquainted with how neuroscience, psychology and anthropology can improve performance and develop your leadership brain. I have found the concepts discussed in the book highly beneficial." * Ghaleb A. Al-Ghoutani, Head of OD, Rawabi Holding – KSA (about a previous edition) *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction – The leadership enigma and the human brain; Section - ONE: Pillar 1 thinking brain; Chapter - 01: Powerful brain, powerful leader; Chapter - 02: Clear mind, strong direction; Chapter - 03: Higher performance, more followers; Chapter - 04: Summary of pillar 1; Section - TWO: Pillar 2 emotional brain; Chapter - 05: More emotion, better decisions; Chapter - 06: Right emotion, right action; Chapter - 07: Summary of pillar 2; Section - THREE: Pillar 3 brain automations; Chapter - 08: Gut reaction, faster solution; Chapter - 09: Summary of pillar 3; Section - FOUR: Pillar 4 relational brain; Chapter - 10: More connected, more successful; Chapter - 11: Brain communication, better persuasion; Chapter - 12: Summary of pillar 4; Chapter - 13: Concluding remarks – The future, the brain and the BAL approach
£65.00
Collective Ink Woody’s Last Laugh: How the Extinct Ivory-billed
Book SynopsisWoody’s Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed “extinction” of American ivory-billed woodpecker. Among the first to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever provoked such social rancor. Why are rumors of its persistence so prevalent, unlike other near or recently extinct animals? Why are we so bad mannered with each other about a mere bird? How is it that we cannot agree even on whether a mere bird is alive or dead? Woody’s Last Laugh uncovers why such mysteries so mess with our heads. By exploring uncharted borders between conservation and mental perception, new ways of evaluating truth and accuracy are opened to everyone. Author Dr. J. Christopher Haney is a biologist, conservation scientist and lifelong birder. For 12 years he was Chief Scientist at Defenders of Wildlife. In 2010, following the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service invited him to lead the largest pelagic study of marine birds ever conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2013 he has been president of Terra Mar Applied Sciences, an independent public-interest conservation research firm which he founded. If there is one lesson Dr. Haney hopes his book delivers, it is to not overvalue our thinking skills. Human reason is fallible, even among scientists and technical experts. To improve our essential relationship with nature, conservation practices will need to devote as much attention to the unbridled thoughts as the unswerving sentiments. Dead or alive, however, the ivory-bill got the last laugh on us all.
£20.89
Mac Keith Press Disorders of the Spinal Cord in Children
Book SynopsisCovering the range of pediatric spinal cord disease, its clinical assessment, appropriate investigation, its medical and neurosurgical management and neuro-rehabilitation. Spinal cord disorders have tended to be approached as adjuncts to disorders of the paediatric brain or peripheral nervous system. This is partly a function of numbers – specifically spinal pathologies being less frequent than those of the brain and the peripheral neuromuscular system, partly a function of the relatively limited investigation techniques available before the advent of MRI and, at least to some degree, it is because the clinical evaluation of the spinal cord in young children is difficult and may be overshadowed by the manifestations of accompanying brain and peripheral neuromuscular symptomatology. It is likely that the role of the cord, in conditions ranging from neonatal neurological injury to shaken impact syndrome and in inflammatory and neurometabolic disorders and beyond, will continue to become more evident over coming years. Readership: Pediatric neurologists; Pediatric neurosurgeons; Pediatric oncologists; Pediatric neuroradiologists and neurophysiologists; Rehabilitation physicians and therapists.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Neurological Examination of Children with Spinal Cord Disorders Chapter 2: Imaging the Cord Chapter 3: Clinical Neurophysiology of the Spinal Cord Chapter 4: Spinal Cord Malformations Chapter 5: Spinal Cord Abscess, Haemorrhage, and Trauma Chapter 6: Tumours of the Spine in Children Chapter 7: Inflammatory, Metabolic, Vascular, and Demyelinating Disorders Chapter 8: Specific Issues in Management and Rehabilitation Chapter 9: Prospects for Spinal Cord Repair
£104.50
Business Expert Press Build Better Brains: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience
Book SynopsisThe exciting news is that leadership has become measurable in the brain. This opens a new perspective on “the biology of leadership”. Have you every wished to discover what lies inside of the box on top of your head? Are you aware that by reading this book you will forever change your brain, because your brain is an eternal construction site? Did you know that we have three brains? One brain in the brain, one in the heart, one in the gut? With Millennials and Generation Z becoming most of our workforce, the way we think about leadership is changing. Advances in neuroscience can prepare leaders to build a culture of trust and purpose for themselves and their teams. Build Better Brains is neither a leadership book nor a book on neuroscience. It merges the best of the two worlds to serve a new type of leader emerging with contemporary organizations. Build Better Brains: Offers practical, science-based applications for improving the efficiency of leadership in today’s fast-paced VUCA world; Applies the knowledge and tools of neuroscience as foundation for leading people and building better companies; Is based on simple concepts, utilizing the latest insights from both leadership and neuroscience, without missing out on scientific facts; Teaches, but also entertains: leadership is full of fights, fiction, failures, but should also be fun; Serves the common need in today’s over-engineered yet antiquated workplaces to discover the magic inside our brains. Leadership is born in the brain.
£25.16
Rutgers University Press Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed
Book SynopsisWhen leaded gasoline was first developed in the 1920s, medical experts were quick to warn of the public health catastrophes it would cause. Yet government regulators did not heed their advice, and for more than half a century, nearly all cars used leaded gasoline, which contributed to a nationwide epidemic of lead poisoning. By the 1970s, 99.8% of American children had significantly elevated levels of lead in their blood. Unleaded tells the story of how crusading scientists and activists convinced the U.S. government to ban lead additives in gasoline. It also reveals how, for nearly fifty years, scientific experts paid by the oil and mining industries abused their authority to convince the public that leaded gasoline was perfectly harmless. Combining environmental history, sociology, and neuroscience, Carrie Nielsen explores how lead exposure affects the developing brains of children and is linked to social problems including academic failure, teen pregnancies, and violent crime. She also shows how, even after the nationwide outrage over Flint’s polluted water, many poor and minority communities and communities of color across the United States still have dangerously high lead levels. Unleaded vividly depicts the importance of sound science and strong environmental regulations to protect our nation’s most vulnerable populations.Trade Review"Nielsen has developed a sophisticated analysis of childhood lead exposure. One of the real joys of this book is that it is written in an accessible style and makes an important contribution to the historical literature on childhood lead poisoning."— Gerald Markowitz, author of Lead Wars "Carrie Nielsen’s Unleaded provides a scientific perspective on an early-twentieth-century federal policy that misguidedly allowed the rapid rise and then, sensibly, the decline of a single product, leaded gasoline. The outcomes of these policy decisions changed the global environment and the socioeconomic fate of millions of people, mainly in the U.S. but also worldwide."— Howard Mielke, Tulane University School of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface 1 Lead in 20th Century America 2 Where the Lead Came From 3 Getting the Lead Out 4 Lead in America’s Children 5 Brains and Behavior and Lead 6 Lead and Violence 7 The Lead Problem Persists 8 Lessons from the Lead Battles Conclusion: Understanding our Leaded World Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Rutgers University Press Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed
Book SynopsisWhen leaded gasoline was first developed in the 1920s, medical experts were quick to warn of the public health catastrophes it would cause. Yet government regulators did not heed their advice, and for more than half a century, nearly all cars used leaded gasoline, which contributed to a nationwide epidemic of lead poisoning. By the 1970s, 99.8% of American children had significantly elevated levels of lead in their blood. Unleaded tells the story of how crusading scientists and activists convinced the U.S. government to ban lead additives in gasoline. It also reveals how, for nearly fifty years, scientific experts paid by the oil and mining industries abused their authority to convince the public that leaded gasoline was perfectly harmless. Combining environmental history, sociology, and neuroscience, Carrie Nielsen explores how lead exposure affects the developing brains of children and is linked to social problems including academic failure, teen pregnancies, and violent crime. She also shows how, even after the nationwide outrage over Flint’s polluted water, many poor and minority communities and communities of color across the United States still have dangerously high lead levels. Unleaded vividly depicts the importance of sound science and strong environmental regulations to protect our nation’s most vulnerable populations.Trade Review"Nielsen has developed a sophisticated analysis of childhood lead exposure. One of the real joys of this book is that it is written in an accessible style and makes an important contribution to the historical literature on childhood lead poisoning."— Gerald Markowitz, author of Lead Wars "Carrie Nielsen’s Unleaded provides a scientific perspective on an early-twentieth-century federal policy that misguidedly allowed the rapid rise and then, sensibly, the decline of a single product, leaded gasoline. The outcomes of these policy decisions changed the global environment and the socioeconomic fate of millions of people, mainly in the U.S. but also worldwide."— Howard Mielke, Tulane University School of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface 1 Lead in 20th Century America 2 Where the Lead Came From 3 Getting the Lead Out 4 Lead in America’s Children 5 Brains and Behavior and Lead 6 Lead and Violence 7 The Lead Problem Persists 8 Lessons from the Lead Battles Conclusion: Understanding our Leaded World Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£55.25
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Neuroethology of Birdsong
Book SynopsisVocal signals are central for social communication across a wide range of vertebrate species; consequently, it is critical to understand the mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and evolution of vocal communication. Songbirds are at the forefront of research into such neural mechanisms. Indeed, songbirds provide a particularly important model system for this endeavor because of the many parallels between birdsong and human speech. Specifically, (1) songbirds are one of the few vertebrate species that, like humans, learn their vocal signals during development, (2) the processes of song learning and control in songbirds shares many parallels with the process of speech acquisition in humans, and (3) there exist deep homologies between the circuits for the learning, control, and processing of vocal signals across songbirds and humans. In addition, because of the diversity of songbirds and song learning strategies, songbirds offer a powerful model system to use the comparative method to reveal mechanisms underlying the evolution of song learning and production. Taken together, research on songbirds can not only reveal general principles underlying vertebrate vocal communication but can also provide insight into potential mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and processing of speech. This volume will cover a range of topics in birdsong spanning multiple level of analysis. Chapters will be authored by the world’s leading experts on birdsong and will provide comprehensive reviews of the processes underlying song learning, of the neural circuits for song learning and control as well as for the extraction and processing of song information, of the selection pressures underlying song evolution, and of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the learning and evolution of song. The primary goals of this volume are to provide comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and to underscore the importance of birdsong to biomedical research, evolutionary biology, and behavioral, systems, and computational neuroscience.The target audience of this volume will be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established academics and neuroscientists who are interested in mechanisms of communication from an integrative and comparative perspective. The volume is intended to function as a high-profile and contemporary reference on current work related to the learning, control, processing, and evolution of birdsong. This volume will have broad appeal to comparative and sensory biologists, neurophysiologists, and behavioral, systems, and cognitive neuroscientists who attend meetings such as the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroethology, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Because of the relevance of birdsong research to understanding human speech, it is likely that the volume will also be of interest to speech researchers and clinicians researching communication, motor, and sensory processing disorders.Table of ContentsPROPOSED CHAPTERS (with proposed senior authors) 1. Approaching birdsong from multiple levels of analysis - Jon T. Sakata and Sarah C. Woolley This chapter will provide a broad overview of birdsong research from multiple levels of analysis. We will adopt Tinbergen’s landmark framework to provide summaries of research into the mechanisms, development, evolutionary history, and adaptive significance of birdsong (e.g., the importance of song performance to reproductive success). This introductory chapter will highlight key concepts to be discussed in greater depth in subsequent chapters and will emphasize the complementarity of birdsong research to broader research on vocal communication in vertebrates. 2. History of birdsong research - Jonathan Prather and Donald Kroodsma This chapter will present a historical overview of the field of birdsong. The authors will review the works of researchers who paved the way for the modern era of birdsong (e.g., Thorpe, Marler, Nottebohm, Konishi), highlight the importance of the comparative approach, outline central questions in birdsong, and discuss novel methodologies to answer classic questions. 375 3. Bridging birdsong and speech - Jon T. Sakata and Patricia Kuhl Songbirds are one of the few vertebrate species that, like humans, are not born with their vocal communication signals but must learn the structure of their species-typical vocalizations during development. Further, the process of song learning in songbird^1200 times). The chapter will discuss such diverse topics such as critical periods, sensory refinement across development, social reinforcement and contingency, learning in a social context, sensorimotor learning, reinforcement models for sensory and sensorimotor learning, species constraints on song learning, and entrainment. 4. Neural mechanisms of vocal learning - Mimi Kao and Michael S. Brainard This chapter will provide a comprehensive review of the neural mechanisms underlying vocal learning, theoretical models of vocal learning, and empirical tests of these models. The authors will provide detailed descriptions of the contributions of neurons in the canonical ‘song system’ and auditory processing circuits to vocal learning and plasticity. In addition, this chapter will review recent advances into our understanding of how neuromodulatory inputs into song and auditory circuits (e.g., from the ventral tegmental area, locus coeruleus, and nucleus basalis) shape the process of vocal learning. This chapter will also review shared and distinct mechanisms underlying sensory vs. sensorimotor learning as well as recent advances into the contribution of brain areas outside the canonical song system to song learning. 5. Neural mechanisms of song control - Michael Long and Tim Gardner This chapter will review the exciting new advances in our understanding of how neurons in the song system control song production. The chapter will provide an overview of theoretical models of song control and empirical support for such models and will discuss sensorimotor integration, efference copy, and feedback signals. The authors will also summarize recent technological advances to probe neural function, including optogenetics, miniaturized Peltier devices, and micro-imaging techniques. 6. Songbirds as models to understanding basal ganglia function - Arthur Leblois and David Perkel Area X is a basal ganglia structure that is critical for song learning and control and that resembles basal ganglia structures in mammals. This chapter will review the microcircuitry within Area X, the homologies between Area X and mammalian basal ganglia circuits, and the function of Area X neuronal circuits to juvenile song learning and to adult song control and plasticity. In addition, the authors will discuss how midbrain circuitry influences Area X function and, relatedly, how songbirds can help us understand the neural processes underlying Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. 7. Auditory processing for social decision-making - Sarah C. Woolley and Sarah M.N. Woolley Both male and female songbirds heavily rely on auditory information from conspecifics to make important social decisions; for example, female songbirds select their mates based on the quality of his song. This chapter will review the advances in understanding mechanisms of auditory processing for social decision-making. The authors will synthesize neurophysiological, cellular, and neuroimaging data to present an integrative framework for understanding sensory processing for social decision-making. 8. Regulation and modulation of auditory processing - Luke Remage-Healey and Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama The processing of ethologically relevant stimuli is modulated by a variety of factors including behavioral state (awake vs. sleeping vs. anesthetized; singing vs. quiescent), developmental history, and species. This chapter will review how such factors influence auditory responses in songbirds and discuss the neural and endocrine mechanisms (e.g., norepinephrine, acetylcholine, sex steroid hormones) that could underlie such modulation of auditory responses. 9. Computational approaches to understanding the processing and production of birdsong - Frederic Theunissen and Kamal Sen Computational approaches have yielded important insights into how the nervous system encodes and decodes information. Such approaches have allowed birdsong researchers to uncover, for example, the complexity of receptive fields in the songbird brain as well as the hierarchical nature of sensory processing. This chapter will provide a comparative and in-depth overview of computational approaches to understanding both the processing and production of birdsong. 10. Genetic architectures underlying vocal learning and control - Sarah London and Constance Scharff Understanding how genes regulate complex behaviors like birdsong is a fundamental pursuit in behavioral neuroscience. Indeed, because of the numerous similarities in vocal learning processes between songbirds and humans, revealing the genes that influence vocal learning in songbirds can provide profound insight into the genes that could underlie variation in vocal learning in humans, including genes underlying developmental and communicative disorders. This chapter will provide a comprehensive review of the genes that have been found to influence song learning in songbirds, in particular in the zebra finch, with a focus on genes that have similarly been implicated in speech acquisition in humans (e.g., foxp2, cntnap2). 11. Cognitive contributions to song perception and production - Tim Gentner The songs of a variety of songbirds, including European starlings and Bengalese finches, have complex acoustic and syntactic structures and live in communities with complex social structures. Consequently, these songbirds offer a powerful opportunity to reveal the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing and production of complex vocalizations. In addition, cognitive processes such as habituation and individual recognition regulate the processing and production of song in a wide range of songbird species. This chapter will review the exciting advances in our understanding of how avian brains process complex auditory signals. 12. Functional significance of vocal performance - Jeff Podos Because females decide to mate with individual males based, in part, on the the quality of their song, it is critical to understand the features of song that represent “song quality”. This chapter will review the various features of song considered to represent song quality, including repertoire size, complexity, and difficulty of performance, as well as the empirical support for the importance of these features to reproductive success. Further, the chapter will provide an overview of the peripheral and neurobiological control of these features in order to reveal potential substrates that selection acts upon. 13. Comparative studies of songbirds to reveal molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution of song learning - Kazuhiro Wada, Kazuo Okanoya, and Erich Jarvis Vocal learning has evolved independently in three clades of birds – songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these evolutionary events remain elusive. With the utilization of high-throughput technologies to rapidly sequence genomes and analyze gene expression, we have recently gained deeper insight into the molecular underpinnings of song learning evolution. This chapter will provide an overview of approaches to study the evolution of song learning in birds and a review of the recent literature on candidate genes and molecules for vocal learning. The authors will also provide an outlook on the future of advances in the field, including the integration of evo-devo approaches and behavioral genetics to the study of song evolution.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Modern Approaches to Augmentation of Brain
Book SynopsisThis book covers recent advances in neural technology that provide for enhancements for brain function. It addresses a broad range of neural phenomena occurring in the brain circuits involved in perception, cognition, emotion and action, that represent the building blocks of behavior and cognition. Augmentation of brain function can be achieved by using brain implants for recordings, stimulation, or drug delivery. Alternative methods include employing brain-machine interfaces, as well as noninvasive activation of certain brain areas. This volume evaluates existing methods of brain augmentation while discussing the brain circuitry and neuronal mechanisms that make augmentation possible. This volume offers novel insights into brain disorders, and explores new devices for brain repair while also addressing the philosophical and ethical implications of brain augmentation. The information in this book is relevant to researchers in the fields of neuroscience, engineering, and clinical practice. Advance Praise for Modern Approaches to Augmentation of Brain Function: “This impressive book by leading experts in neuroscience and neuroengineering lays out the future of brain augmentation, in which the human mind and machine merge, leading to a rapid exponential growth of the power of humanity.”Ray Kurzweil, best-selling author, inventor, entrepreneur and a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1999), and the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2001) "This book employs a holistic approach in covering the recent advances in the fields of neuroscience, neuroinformatics, neurotechnology and neuro-psycho-pharmacology. Each chapter of the book covers major aspects of modern brain research in connection with the human mind and behavior, and is authored by researchers with unique expertise in their field. "Ioan Dumitrache, Prof. Dr. Eng. Faculty of Computer Science, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania “This book presents compelling perspectives on what interactive neuroscience will look like in the future, delving into the innovatory ideas of a diverse set of neuroscientists, and speculating on the different ways computer chips implanted in the brains of humans can effect intelligence and communication.”György Buzsáki, MD, PhD is the Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NYTable of ContentsPREFACE (Ioan Opris, Mikhail Lebedev, Manuel F. Casanova) INTRODUCTION: What is the meaning of the augmented brain function? Jon H. Kaas Part 1: Stimulating the brain 1) Using electrical stimulation to explore and augment the functions of parietal-frontal cortical networks in primates (Jon H. Kaas and Iwona Stepniewska) 2) Multi-system benefits of epidural stimulation following spinal cord injury (Guest J. D. Chang S. Santamaria A. J., Opris I. and Noga B. R.) 3) Neurostimulator for hippocampal memory prosthesis (Sahar Elyahoodayan, Wenxuan Jiang, Huijing Xu and Dong Song 4) Modern approaches to augmenting the brain functions (Ioan Opris, Brian R. Noga Mikhail Lebedev and Manuel F. Casanova) Part II: Brain computer interfaces 5) Brain machine interfaces within a critical perspective (Antonio G. Zippo and Gabriele E. M. Biella) 6) An implantable wireless device for ECoG and cortical stimulation (Pantaleo Romanelli) 7) BCI Performance improvement by special low jitter quasi-steady State VEP paradigm (Ibrahim Kaya, Jorge Bohorquez and Özcan Özdamar) 8) Communication with Brain-Computer Interfaces in Medical Decision-Making (Walter Glannon) Part III: Augmenting cognitive function. 9) Neuroprotection and neurocognitive augmentation by photobiomodulation (F. Gonzalez-Lima) 10) Avoiding partial sleep - the way for augmentation of brain function (Ivan N. Pigarev and Marina L. Pigareva) 11) Augmentation of brain functions by nanotechnology (Ioan Opris, Nicholas Preza, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Brian Noga, Stephano Chang, Manuel F. Casanova, Mircea Lupusoru, Victor M. Pulgar, Sakhrat Khizroev, Jorge Bohorquez and Aurel Popescu) 12) The impact of ageing and age-related comorbidities on stroke outcome in animal models and humans (Aurel Popa-Wagner, Mircea Popescu-Driga and Daniela Glavan) 13) Diagnostic markers of sub-clinical depression based on functional connectivity (Yunkai Zhu, Jorge Bohorquez and Ioan Opris) 14) Transcranial magnetic stimulation in autism spectrum disorders: modulating brainwave abnormalities and behaviors (Manuel F. Casanova, Ioan Opris, Estate M. Sokhadze, Emily L. Casanova and Xiaoli Li) 15. Neurofeedback training with concurrent psychophysiological monitoring in children with autism spectrum disorder with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder Sokhadze E. M., Kelly D. P., and Casanova M. F Part IV: Futuristic approaches to augmentation 16) Augmentation through interconnection: brain-nets and telemedicine (Mikhail A. Lebedev, Igor A. Shaderkin, Ilia V. Ryabkov and Georgy S. Lebedev) 17) Cognitive augmentation via a brain/cloud interface (Angelica A., Opris IPrenume Boehm 18) Augmentation of neuro-marketing by neural technology (Qingguo Ma) 19) Augmentation of nutrition by nanotechnology (Cosmin Sonea, Mircea Lupusoru and Ioan Opris) 20) Neural spintronics: noninvasive augmentation of brain functions (Stewart E. Barnes, Ioan Opris, Brian R. Noga, Sunxiang Huang, Fulin Zuo) Part V: Augmenting behavior 21) Does the power to suppress an action make us free? (Giovanni Mirabella) 22) Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease-future directions for enhancing motor function (Corneliu C. Luca, Joacir Graciolli Cordeiro, Iahn Cajigas and Jonathan Jagid) 23) Neuromodulation for gait (S. Chang, Ioan Opris, J. D. Guest and Brian R. Noga 24) Augmentation and rehabilitation with active orthotic devices (Gelu Onose, Maria Veronica Morcov, Corina Sporea, Andrada Mirea and Vlad Ciobanu) Part VI: Augmenting cognition and emotion 25) Effects of rTMS on behavioral and electrocortical measures of error monitoring and correction function in children with autism spectrum disorder (Estate M. Sokhadze, Ioan Opris, Lonnie Sears, Ayman S. El-Baz, Allan Tasman and Manuel F. Casanova) 26) Affective Virtual Reality Gaming for Autism (Yi (Joy) Li, Estate M. Sokhadze, Hao (Irene) Luo, Ayman S. El-Baz and Adel S. Elmaghraby) 27) A machine learning approach to automatic phobia therapy with virtual reality (Oana Bălan, Alin Moldoveanu and Marius Leordeanu) Part VII: Pharmacological augmentation 28) Vision augmentation by pharmacological enhancement of the visual experience (Elvire Vaucher) 29) Cognitive enhancing substances and the developing brain: risks and benefits (Kimberly R. Urban and Wen-Jun Gao) 30) Pharmacological approaches in the augmentation and recovery of brain function (Dafin F. Mureșanu, Codruța Bîrle, Livia Livinț Popa, Olivia Verișezan-Roșu and Ștefan Strilciuc)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Behavioral Pharmacology of the Cholinergic System
Book SynopsisThe molecular genetics of the cholinergic system including both muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cholinesterases, acetylcholine synthesis and release have provided significant insights into potential targeting for pharmacological intervention. Cholinergic drugs are being used or evaluated for the treatment of diseases. Thus, this volume aims to broaden our understanding of the current state of cholinergic mechanisms to enable implementation of novel approaches for the development of more effective treatments.Table of ContentsA Review of the Cholinergic System and Therapeutic Approachesto Treat Brain Disorders.- Acetylcholine and Spontaneous Recognition Memory in Rodentsand Primates.- Endogenous Acetylcholine and Its Modulation of Cortical Microcircuitsto Enhance Cognition.- Cholinergic Signaling Dynamics and Cognitive Control of Attention.- Involvement of Nicotinic Receptors in Working Memory Function.- Nicotinic Receptors Underlying Nicotine Dependence: Evidence fromTransgenic Mouse Models.- Cholinergic Receptors and Addiction.- Behavioral and Molecular Basis of Cholinergic Modulation of Pain: Focus on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors.- An Evolving Therapeutic Rationale for Targeting the α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Activators of α7 nAChR as Potential Therapeutics for Cognitive Impairment.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Wavelets in Neuroscience
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates how modern mathematical wavelet transform techniques offer fresh insights into the complex behavior of neural systems at different levels: from the microscopic dynamics of individual cells to the macroscopic behavior of large neural networks. It also demonstrates how and where wavelet-based mathematical tools can provide an advantage over classical approaches used in neuroscience. The authors well describe single neuron and populational neural recordings.This 2nd edition discusses novel areas and significant advances resulting from experimental techniques and computational approaches developed since 2015, and includes three new topics:• Detection of fEPSPs in multielectrode LFPs recordings.• Analysis of Visual Sensory Processing in the Brain and BCI for Human Attention Control;• Analysis and Real-time Classification of Motor-related EEG Patterns;The book is a valuable resource for neurophysiologists and physicists familiar with nonlinear dynamical systems and data processing, as well as for graduate students specializing in these and related areas.Table of ContentsMathematical Methods of Signal Processing in Neuroscience.- Brief Tour of Wavelet Theory.- Analysis of Single Neuron Recordings.- Classification of Neuronal Spikes from Extracellular Recordings.- Analysis of Gamma-Waves in Multielectrode LFP Recordings.- Wavelet Approach to the Study of Rhythmic Neuronal Activity.- Wavelet-based Approach to Epilepsy.- Analysis of Visual Sensory Processing in the Brain and Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human Attention Control.- Analysis and Real-Time Classification of Motor-related EEG and MEG Patterns.- Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Engineering Biomaterials for Neural Applications:
Book SynopsisThis book describes past and present advances in engineering materials for neural applications, with special emphasis on their usefulness for traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. The book presents major physio-pathological features of traumatic injuries at the brain and spinal cord as examples of diseases hampering the central nervous tissue. By incorporating knowledge from the perspective of experts with diverse backgrounds, this book gives insight into the understanding of these multifaceted pathologies and the materials science approaches that aim to cure them. The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it a perfect candidate for the interest of a broad audience, from clinicians working on neural diseases to scientists whose work focuses on the nervous tissue (neuroscientists) and/or materials science. Undergraduate and PhD students can also benefit from the knowledge and discussion included in this book.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three
Book SynopsisThe study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. This book presents a new theoretical model for how to "translate" between the two, using a third language: nonlinear physics and mathematics. It illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms.Table of ContentsContents Forewords: Danatella Marazziti................................................................................................ ix Alwyn Scott........................................................................................................... xi Nick Mansfield..................................................................................................... xiii David R. Hawkins............................................................................................... xvii Introduction............................................................................................................. xxi The Puzzle............................................................................................................... xxv Part I: Learning the Languages.................................................................................... 1 1. Humanity’s Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology.................................................................. 3 2. An “Ideographic,” Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics................................................... 15 3. A “Demotic,” First-Person Language of the Individual and the Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche................................................... 27 4. The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................... 33 Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism................................................................................................ 35 Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................................. 39 Part II: Seeking the Understanding............................................................................ 45 5. Consciousness......................................................................................................... 47 6. The Unconscious..................................................................................................... 59 7. The Database........................................................................................................... 71 8. Affectivity............................................................................................................... 79 9. The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map........................ 91 Part III: Applying the Knowledge............................................................................. 101 10. The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm?........................ 103 11. The Three Languages and Treatment.................................................................... 115 12. The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity............................................... 127 13. The Role of a New Science for Psyche Upon Society and Culture...................... 135 References........................................................................................................... 147 Name Index......................................................................................................... 151 Subject Index 153
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Information Systems and Neuroscience: NeuroIS
Book SynopsisThis book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2021, June 1-3, virtual conference, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences. Readers will discover the latest findings from top scholars in the field of NeuroIS, which offer detailed insights on the neurobiology underlying IS behavior, essential methods and tools and their applications for IS, as well as the application of neuroscience and neurophysiological theories to advance IS theory.Table of ContentsWhere NeuroIS Helps to Understand Human Processing of Text: A Taxonomy for Research Questions Based on Textual Data.- Towards a Psychophysiological Investigation of Perceived Trustworthiness and Risk in Online Pharmacies: Results of a Pre-Study.- Exploring the Influence of Personality Traits on Affective Customer Experiences in Retailing: Combination of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Self-Report Measures.- Motor dysfunction simulation in able-bodied participants for usability evaluation of assistive technology:A research proposal.- Exploring the Potential of NeuroIS in the Wild: Opportunities and Challenges of Home Environments.- Exploring the Recognition of Facial Activities Through Around-the-Ear Electrode Arrays (cEEGrids).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Neuroethical Policy Design: A Lifetime’s
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds. The book focuses on issues relevant to all members of the general population and discusses a series of policy issues arranged roughly in the order in which they become relevant in a typical person’s lifetime. After the introductory chapter each chapter considers an area of public policy particularly relevant to a different stage of life—from early childhood education policy, to policies for higher education and the workplace, to end of life decisions in living wills and advance directives. The author puts forth that making the shift towards more neurologically appropriate policy will likely be a gradual process hampered primarily by two issues. The first is the inability of neuroscientists to come to agreement on increasingly sophisticated research findings. The second issue points out that bringing policy and neurology into a more synchronous relationship requires a commitment to prolonged effort involves the largely unrecognized reality of entrenched neurological interests. The first chapter introduces the concept of disconnect between policy design with traditional understandings of the brain and goes on to highlight developments in the science of human neurology in recent years. To help contextualize the book, examples of neurological misperceptions are explored in this introductory chapter. Chapters Two through Eleven each explores a specific type of policy, incorporating understandings of the human brain which, modern neuroscience suggests, are debatable.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Of the People, for the People and by the People?.- Chapter 2: Early Childhood Education: Ensuring Access through 1990s Neuroscience.- Chapter 3: Bullying and the Beholder: Zero Tolerance Policies.- Chapter 4: Medicine and the Mind: Treating the Adolescent Brain.- Chapter 5: Ages of Consent and Majority: Perspective and Decision Making.- Chapter 6: Knowledge and Wisdom: High Stakes Testing and Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 7: Labor Policy: Employees as Children.- Chapter 8: Fairness and Bias: Discrimination in the Workplace.- Chapter 9: Persistence of Memory: Bearing Witness or Serving on a Jury.- Chapter 10: Happy Golden Years: Retirement Policy.- Chapter 11: Will to Live and the Living Will.- Chapter 12: Complexity is Our Responsibility: Concluding Thoughts on Moving Forward.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Governing Continuous Transformation: Re-framing
Book SynopsisThis book transposes the ‘free-energy principle’, as espoused by the neuroscientist Karl Friston, to strategic governance, and forming the new concept of Free-Energy Governance (FEG). This concept lays the foundation for a new logic of governing continuous transformation. In addition to guiding the structure, cognition, and capabilities of success in strategic renewal, FEG provides a systematic and practice-relevant approach to predicting a firm’s potential for entropy.Using this new concept, the author shows that the success of continuous strategic renewal and business innovation, elements crucial for firm survival, are determined by the triplet of a firm’s structure, cognition, and dynamic board capabilities. “How to govern large organizations in times of high uncertainty and permanent change? To answer this pressing question, … Bijan Khezri has been the first to apply [the free energy] principle to management science … This book is an eyeopener for every reflective leader.¨ Professor Oliver Gassmann, Director of the Institute of Management and Technology, University of St. Gallen “I really enjoyed reading this book. It was both exciting and reassuring to see how the same fundamental ideas can be found in fields as disparate as nonequilibrium steady-state physics and theories of governance.” Professor Karl. J. Friston; Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging “Using a term often applied to best-selling novels, ‘it is a page turner’ in which I learned something new in every chapter! Every board member, all executives and scholars interested in strategic leadership and governance must read this book if they wish to remain relevant in the coming transformational decades.” Michael A. Hitt University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University Former President, Academy of Management, and former Editor, Academy of Management Journal "We could not ask for a better author to initiate this new conversation in the board research community and convey its merits to the world of board practice." Martin HilbProfessor Emeritus, University of St. Gallen Founder and Managing Partner, International Board Foundation and President of Swiss Institute of Directors “Set against a wide swath of literature, the book impressively makes the case for a new logic of strategic renewal in which the board of directors plays a central role.” Professor Constance E. Helfat, Tuck School of Business at DartmouthTable of ContentsPart I: Re-framing the Strategy-Governance Conversation.- 1. ‘Thinking Born of Curiosity, Revolt, and Change’.- 2. Sensing, Sensemaking, and Strategic Renewal.- 3. Microfoundations of Strategic Governance.- 4. Free Energy Principle (FEP).- 5. Conclusion.- Part II: Free Energy Governance (FEG).- 6. Structure: Synergizing Governance and Operational Channels.- 7. Cognition: From Superposition to Reality.- 8. Capabilities: Duality Management.- 9. Laying the Foundation for a Self-Organizing (Autopoietic) Governance Logic.- Part III: Conclusion.- 10. Free Energy Governance vs. Traditional Corporate Governance.- 11. Implications for Management Practice.- 12. Future Research Agenda.- 13. Outperformance and Survival as a Matter of Self-Organization.- Part IV: Engaged Scholarship Interviews.- 14. Steve Case.- 15. Jan Ståhlberg.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Transient Global Amnesia: From Patient Encounter
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised second edition provides a comprehensive overview of transient global amnesia (TGA). First, it deals with the history of TGA before moving on to clinical and diagnostic features and differential diagnosis. Subsequent chapters then discuss the investigation and predisposing and precipitating factors for TGA before attempting to synthesise these many strands in order to formulate ideas about the pathogenesis of TGA. Each of the chapters is devoted to a practical and structured overview of the particular topic, with use of case studies to illustrate the material. Based in part on the author’s experience of TGA cases over 20 years and in part on a review of the published literature, this book will hopefully enlighten clinicians from a broad range of medical backgrounds on the clinical features, investigation, and pathogenesis of TGA. Transient Global Amnesia is aimed at any clinician with an interest in, or who encounters patients with, acute amnesia: neurologists, general physicians, old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, clinical neuropsychologists, and primary care physicians, as well as other professions allied to medicine with similar interests, such as members of memory assessment teams.Table of ContentsHistory of TGA.- Beginnings: Fisher and Adams’ first accounts of TGA.- “Prehistory” of TGA.- After Fisher and Adams.- A note on nomenclature.- A note on methodology.- Summary and recommendations.- References .- Clinical features, diagnostic criteria, and possible variants of TGA.- Clinical features of TGA.- TGA archetype.- Accompanying neurological symptoms.- Time of onset: diurnal.- Attack duration.- Prognosis, recurrence.- Diagnostic criteria of TGA.- Essential features and inclusion/exclusion boundaries.- Hodges and Warlow’s diagnostic criteria.- TGA subtypes?.- Possible variant forms of TG.- Transient topographical amnesia (TTA).- Transient partial verbal amnesia (TPVA).- Transient semantic amnesia.- Transient procedural amnesia.- Transient retrograde amnesia.- Summary and recommendations .- References.- Differential diagnosis of TGA.- Transient ischaemic attack (TIA).- Other forms of cerebrovascular disease.- Other vascular pathologies, including angiography.- Cardiac disorders.- Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA).- Interrelation of TGA and TEA.- Transient psychological amnesia (TPA).- Other symptomatic causes of transient amnesia.- Migraine.- Adverse drug effect.- Hypoglycaemia.- Traumatic brain (closed head) injury.- Alcohol-induced amnesia; Korsakoff syndrome.- Fatigue amnesia.- Other causes of acute cerebral disorder.- Acute confusional state/delirium/toxic-metabolic encephalopathy.- Cerebral haemorrhage.- Acute brain infection (encephalitis).- Summary and recommendations.- References.- Investigation and management of TGA.- Neuropsychology.- Neuropsychological deficits during TGA: memory.- “Working memory”.- Anterograde memory.- Retrograde memory.- Semantic memory.- Implicit memory.- Spatial memory.- Neuropsychological deficits during TGA: other, non-memory, cognitive domains.- Language.- Visuoperceptual, visuospatial skills.- Executive function.- Neuropsychological deficits after TGA.- Neuroimaging: structural and functional.- Structural neuroimaging.- Computed tomography (CT).- Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.- Functional neuroimaging.- Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).- Positron emission tomography (PET).- Functional MRI (fMRI) .- MR spectroscopy (MRS).- CT perfusion (CTP) imaging.- Neurophysiology Electroencephalography (EEG).- EEG during TGA.- Magnetoencephalography (MEG).- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).- Other investigations.- Blood tests.- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).- Sonography.- Arterial.- Venous; internal jugular vein valve incompetence.- Management.- Driving.- Summary and recommendation.- References.- Prognosis of TGA.- Recovery and persisting cognitive deficit.- Recurrence.- Annual recurrence rate.- Recurrent TG.- Future risk.- Cognitive decline: dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).- Cognitive decline: progressive aphasia.- Stroke.- Epilepsy.- Summary and recommendations.- References .- Epidemiology of TGA (1): Possible predisposing factors.- Incidence .- Time of onset: seasonal.- Place of onset: geographical distribution.- Patient age.- Patient gender.- Patient ethnicity.- Patient social class.- Family history of TGA.- Migraine.- Patient personality traits and psychological factors.- Vascular risk factors and stroke.- Structural brain lesions, including brain tumours.- Brain infections.- Summary and recommendations.- References.- Epidemiology of TGA (2): Possible precipitating factors.- Emotional stress.- Physical effort.- Water contact or temperature change.- Sexual activity.- Pain.- Medical procedures.- Other possible precipitating factors.- Summary and recommendations .- References.- Aetiopathogenesis of TGA.- Cerebrovascular changes.- Arterial.- Venous.- Epilepsy.- Migraine.- Genetics.- Psychiatry.- Formulation: neural network models and hypothesis.- The future?.- Summary.- References.- Index.
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Springer International Publishing AG Neuroscience of Social Stress
Book SynopsisSocial stress has emerged as a research front in the neurosciences, and this volume highlights recent insights in brain mechanisms and methodological advances. The topics range from the evolutionary origins of coping with social challenges to neural mechanism-driven focus on novel treatment targets. The parallel presentation of work with animal models and human subjects is bound to be useful to a broad research community.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG The Enteric Nervous System II
Book SynopsisThis book is based on the proceedings of the Enteric Nervous System conference in Adelaide, Australia, under the auspices of the International Federation for Neurogastroenterology and Motility. The book focuses on methodological strategies and unresolved issues in the field and explores where the future is heading and what technological advances have been made to address current and future questions. The Enteric Nervous System II continues in the tradition of a popular earlier volume which covered the previous meeting. Many of the same authors are contributing to this new volume, presenting state-of-the-art updates on the many developments in the field since the earlier meeting. The coverage include a wide range of topics, from structure and function of the enteric nervous system through gut motility and visceral pain. The author team includes long-established authorities who significantly contributed to the advances in ENS research over the past two decades and the new generation that will continue to contribute to advancing our understanding of the field. Table of Contents Luminal Chemoreceptors and Intrinsic Nerves- Key Modulators of Digestive Motor Function Comparative and evolutionary aspects of the ENS Exploring synaptic transmission in the ENS: electrophysiology, functional studies and modelling Mucosal Serotonin Ca2+ signaling in Interstitial cells of Cajal: The mechanistic basis for many GI motility behaviors Identifying types of neurons in the enteric nervous system Clinico-Pathological Features of severe gut dysmotility Purinergic signaling in the ENS Myogenic and neural control in concert colonic response to physiological and chemical stimuli Molecular targets to alleviate enteric neuropathy and gastrointestinal dysfunction The emerging role of the gut-brain microbiota axis in neurodevelopmental disorders A view on how enteric neurons monitor luminal content Interaction of the microbiota and the developing ENS Influence of the circadian rhythm on enteric nervous system function Mechanosensitive Enteric Neurons (MEN) at work Neurogenetic investigation of the ENS and gut motility The shaggy dog story of enteric signaling: serotonin, a molecular megillah Contribution of enteric neuroglial remodelling to inflammatory bowel disease and cancer evolution Examining cellular metabolism in the enteric nervous system Embryonic development of motility: a bottom-up approach to the workings of the intestine Quantitative analysis of intestinal movements with spatiotemporal maps The roles of Mas related G-protein coupled receptors in the gut Refining Enteric Neural Circuitry by Quantitative Morphology, Transcriptomics and Function in Mice” Extrinsic modulation of enteric circuits that regulate colon function in health and disease Activating and Modeling ENS Circuits in Mouse Colon Neurons, macrophages and glia: the role of intercellular communication for gut motility Modelling development of the ENS: What's been done and what's next Epithelial 5-HT4 receptors as a target for treating constipation and colitis Activity in Enteric Neural circuits underlying propulsion Contribution of the ENS to autoimmune diseases and irritable bowel syndrome
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Springer International Publishing AG The Social Impulse: The Evolution and
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter. In The Social Impulse: The Evolution and Neuroscience of What Brings Us Together, Jaime Pineda presents the evidence that social cohesion is a complementary force to natural selection, the Darwinian drive for differentiation and diversity. The book addresses the distinctive aspects of social behavior that arise from integration principles and seeks to answer the following questions: (1) Why does social cohesion arise? (2) What is the history of social dynamics? (3) How does social cohesion work? (4) When do the developmental aspects of social dynamics arise? A final section of the book addresses the value of sociality and social cohesion. By exploring the differences, similarities, and, most important, the interactivity between natural selection and social cohesion, this unique book provides a wealth of interesting, challenging, and unexpected insights.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Part I Differentiation-Integration Dynamics: Ultimate Causes Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Darwinian Dilemmas 1.2 Lingering Issues in the Social Domain 1.3 Goals and Themes Chapter 2: Purposeless Design 2.1 System of Synthetic Philosophy 2.2 The Supreme Law of Every Becoming 2.3 Revolutionary Ideas 2.4 Social Evolution Chapter 3: Darwinian Evolutionary Theory 3.1 The Incompleteness of Natural Selection 3.2 Group or Multilevel Selection 3.3 Gene-Culture Coevolution in Humans 3.4 Lamarckian Evolution and Epigenetics 3.5 Filling in a Darwinian Gap Chapter 4: Principles of Differentiation and Integration 4.1 Integrating the Processes of Evolution 4.2 Fundamental, Opposing Forces 4.3 Decreased Interdependency, Increased Complexity 4.4 Decreased Autonomy, Increased Function 4.5 Integration and Differentiation in the Brain Chapter 5: The Information Trend in Science 5.1 Evolution as Information 5.2 Features of Scientific Integration 5.3 Vertical Integration of Information 5.4 Horizontal Integration Chapter 6: Is Social Cohesion a Different Mechanism of Evolution? 6.1 Not Parallel, but Interactive and Intentional 6.2 Cultural Innovations as Traits 6.3 Cumulative Culture, Groups, and Social Cohesion 6.4 The Role of Communication 6.5 Sociocultural Primitives and Self-Organization Part II Roots and Mechanisms: Proximate Causes Chapter 7: Fundamental Physical Forces, Genes, and Epigenetics 7.1 Entropy and Negentropy in Evolution 7.2 Eusociality and Prosociality Responses to Evolutionary Pressures 7.3 Genetic Transition to Eusociality and Prosociality 7.4 The Impact of Epigenetics on Sociality Chapter 8: Biological Origins 8.1 From Unicellular to Multicellular Life 8.2 Cell Signaling and Adhesion 8.3 Phylogenetic Continuity 8.4 Mathematical Aggregation and Cohesiveness Chapter 9: Neural Mechanisms of Sociality 9.1 The Social Brain 9.2 Phylogeny of Social Behavior 9.3 Group Dynamics and Knowledge of Others 9.4 Social Intersubjectivity and the Insular Cortex 9.5 Interpersonal Neurobiology Chapter 10: Psychological Features 10.1The Cognitivism Paradigm 10.2Psychological Mechanisms of Social Cognition 10.3The Role of Imitation Learning 10.4Evolutionary Psychology, Memes, and Culture Chapter 11: Cognitive Science Underpinnings 11.1Social Cognition and Cohesiveness 11.2Empathy and Compassion 11.3Phylogenetic Primitives and Ontogenetic Continuity 11.4Constraints on the Becoming Function 11.5Phenomenology: The Lived Experience Chapter 12: A Sociological Systems Theory 12.1Societal Differentiations 12.2Structurally Linked Sociality and Social Cohesion 12.3Social Enactivism and Collective Rituals in the Wild Chapter 13: Developmental Roots 13.1Developmental Evolutionary Psychology 13.2History of Cognitive Development 13.3Social Brain Networks 13.4The Importance of Language 13.5Architecture of the Linguistic Systems Chapter 14: Metaphysical, Religious, and Spiritual Aspects 14.1Metaphysics and Religious Transformation of Reality 14.2The Importance of Myths: A Story of Origins 14.3Integration as the Search for Unity 14.4Evolution and Democratization of the Religious Impulse 14.5Cultural Aspects of Religion Part III Survival Value Chapter 15: Sociality’s Survival Value 15.1Filling in the Explanatory Gaps 15.2Benefits of a More Synthetic Theory 15.3Wise Managers of Evolutionary Processes 15.4Social Cohesion and Sociality 15.5Why Males Court and Females Choose 15.6Doing and Undoing Complexity 15.7Emergent General Intelligence Part IV Conclusions Chapter 16: A New Framework: A Theory of Integration 16.1Refinement of the Darwinian Framework 16.2Sociality as Constraint-Satisfaction and Self-Organizing 16.3Origins of Social Cohesion 16.4Sociocultural Development of Sociality 16.5Final Thoughts Appendix Poem: Song of the Shattering Vessels References Index
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Springer International Publishing AG New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of
Book SynopsisNew Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder reviews the latest developments in preclinical and clinical research of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As well as updating key chapters that were included in an earlier edition, this volume includes some new topics that are attracting a great deal of interest and point the way to new and promising directions for future research. The chapters follow five main themes: Current perspectives on the clinical profile of ADHD and its treatment, common co-occurring conditions, neurobiological studies examining brain function and genetics, animal and in vitro studies, and future directions. This combination of topics emphasises the translational relevance and validity of preclinical research so as to enable a better understanding of ADHD and to highlight the promising strategies for developing new treatments.Table of ContentsCLINICAL PROFILE AND TREATMENTS.- ADHD in children and adults: diagnosis and prognosis.- Treatment strategies.- Psychostimulants – treatment efficacy and problems.- Recent developments and future options for pharmacological treatments for ADHD.- GENETICS.- Genetics of ADHD (including CNVs).- Genes , cognitive function and ADHD.- Epigenetics and ADHD.- CO-MORBIDITY.- ADHD and comorbid depression.- ADHD and autism.- Aggression and ADHD.- Obesity and ADHD (+ cytokines?).- Sleep circadian rhythms and ADHD.- Substance misuse .- ASSESSING BRAIN FUNCTION / DYSFUNCTION.- EEG and ADHD (the skeptical view).- Update on imaging – with connectivity.- Visual processing substrates for ADHD.- Cortical microstructure / connectivity.- ANIMAL AND IN VITRO STUDIES.- Critique of animal models.- Update on circuits for impulsive behaviour.- Zebrafish.- Update on DA transporter and ADHD.- Arousal, noradrenaline and ADHD.- FUTURE DIRECTIONS.- Stem cells for disease modelling.- Microbiome and ADHD.- Adult ADHD.
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Springer International Publishing AG Communication Between Honeybees: More than Just a
Book SynopsisJürgen Tautz, renowned German bee researcher explains how bees communicate. Exciting and surprising new insights on communication between bees. During the history of bee research, scientists have peered deep into the inner life of bee colonies and learned much about the behaviour of these insects. Above all, the bee waggle dance has become a famous and extensively discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, recent insights reveal that while bees are social insects inside the hive they also communicate with one another outside the hive. In this book, Jürgen Tautz, renowned German bee researcher, provides an entertaining, fresh and enlightened account for lay and professional readers, not only about the fascinating dance language but also about additional remarkable phenomena concerning information exchange between bees. From the author of the bestseller “The Buzz about Bees”. “The Language of Bees” assembles, for the first time, a complete overview of how bees understand one another. Although communication biology research on bees has so far concentrated largely on events within the hive, this book directs attention as well, to how bees communicate in the field outside the hive. The reader learns which steps new bee recruits take to reach the feeder a dancing forager has advertised. The book analyses the status of work on the bee dance published over the last 100 years and orders the essential findings as building blocks into a coherent new concept of how bees find their target. In addition, the historical survey of research on the “Bee Language” explains how several contradictory and incomplete hypotheses can still survive. A fresh point of view on one of the most remarkable behavioural performances in the animal kingdom. Observation from a different viewpoint leads to previously unknown insights. Such new perspectives clearly reveal both how large the gaps in our knowledge still are in relation to the language of bees and in which direction research must take to complete the picture of one of the most impressive behavioural accomplishments in animals. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tautz is an expert on bees, sociobiologist, animal behaviourist and emeritus professor at the Biozentrum, University of Würzburg. He is a bestseller author and recipient of many awards of excellence for his successful communication of science to a wide public. Trade Review“A book dedicated entirely to the story of the waggle dance. The book starts with a careful description of the history of bee research and Tautz makes a special effort to deliver the science ‘as is’ and avoid recycling previous interpretations. … it is long enough to make you wonder what makes this topic worthy of an entire book.” (Etya Amsalem, American Entomologist, Vol. 69 (2), 2023)“Tautz is to be applauded for attempting to write a synthesis of what has been learned over the past 100 years about how honey bees, like human beings, are able to direct groupmates to important places in the environment. Worker honey bees neither lead others, nor make trails, to these places. Instead, both they and we can ‘simply’ tell others where to find good food sources, snug homesites, and other sites of importance.” (Thomas D. Seeley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 98 (2), June, 2023)“The book sets out to explore, using available knowledge, how recruited foragers are successful in getting to a food source that they have been made aware of. Each chapter of the book is broken down into clear subsections, well-illustrated with appropriate explanatory figures and photographs. The book has a very useful glossary and very detailed references to nearly 300 relevant studies.” (Ian Campbell, BBKA News - The newsletter of The British Beekeepers' Association, March, 2023)“This is quite simply a masterclass of a book. It deals with the whole history of research on communication in honey bees from the earliest observations of Aristotle to the present day and is both authoritative and accessible. … I recommend this book to anyone who keeps bees, watches bees or is just fascinated by insects in general.” (George C. McGavin, BeeCraft, December, 2022)“I believe that this book is an essential read for anybody who is interested in honeybees, but it is also of great interest to a more general readership who may wish to understand more about the amazing world of social insects.” (Mary Montaut, The Beekeepers Quarterly, Vol. 150, December, 2022)“In this book renowned German bee researcher Jürgen Tautz provides an entertaining, fresh and enlightening account for both lay and professional readers, not only about the fascinating dance language but also about additional remarkable phenomena concerning information exchange between bees.” (Farming Scotland Magazine, December, 2022)“The book is richly illustrated. … I really enjoyed reading this book, and thanks to the many references to research over time on the topic, including research done by for example Thomas Seeley, it deepened and broadened my understanding of how bees communicates with each other.” (Paul Lindström, The Apiarist, October, 2022)“The book concludes with an excellent glossary and a magnificently comprehensive list of further references. … a text comes along that stands out from all others, written by a dedicated researcher possessed of the talent required to convey complex science to a wide audience. I take my hat off to Jürgen Tautz who has accomplished just that, and the world of bee research is all the better for it.” (David M. Gascoigne, travelswithbirds.blogspot.com, August 29, 2022)Table of ContentsPreface.- The struggle for insight.- How research on honeybee communication began.- Research on Bees Flourishes with Karl von Frisch.- The dance language remains a controversial idea.- James L. Gould’s experiments explain some but not all difficulties.- Research focuses on the inside of the hive.- Measurement of the dance figures in Space and Time.- Bees and vectors.- Robo-bees and radar techniques.- An interim balance sheet.- Swarm behaviour shows bees communicate not only through the dance.- Rethinking communication between bees.- Conclusion.- Appendix.
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Springer International Publishing AG Advances in Neural Computation, Machine Learning,
Book SynopsisThis book describes new theories and applications of artificial neural networks, with a special focus on answering questions in neuroscience, biology and biophysics and cognitive research. It covers a wide range of methods and technologies, including deep neural networks, large-scale neural models, brain–computer interface, signal processing methods, as well as models of perception, studies on emotion recognition, self-organization and many more. The book includes both selected and invited papers presented at the XXIV International Conference on Neuroinformatics, held on October 17–21, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.Table of ContentsPart I: Neuroinformatics and Artificial Intelligence.- Tree Inventory with LiDAR Data.- Towards Reliable Solar Atmospheric Parameters Neural-Based Inference.- Addressing Task Prioritization in Model-based Reinforcement Learning.- Automatic Generation of Conversational Skills from Dialog Datasets.- Part II: Neural Networks and Cognitive Sciences. Adaptive Behavior and Evolutionary Simulation.- Individual Topology Structure of Eye Movement Trajectories.- Neural Network Providing the Involvement of Voluntary Attention into the Processing and Conscious Perception of Sensory Information.- Alpha Rhythm Dynamics During Spoken Word Recognition.- Robotic Devices Control Based on Neuromorphic Classifiers of Imaginary Motor Commands.- A Software System for Training Motor Imagery in Virtual Reality.- On the Importance of Diversity.- “MYO-chat” – A New Computer Control System for People with Disabilities.- Low-bit Quantization of Transformer for Audio Speech Recognition.- A Model of Predicting and Using Regularities by an Autonomous Agent.- A Review of One-Shot Neural Architecture Search Methods.- Does a Recurrent Neural Network Use Reflection During a Reflexive Game?.- A Gender Genetic Algorithm and its Comparison with Conventional Genetic Algorithm.- Associations of Morphometric Changes of the Brain with the Levels of IGF1, a Multifunctional Growth Factor, and with Systemic Immune Parameters Reflect the Disturbances of Neuroimmune Interactions in Patients with Schizophrenia.- Part III: Modern Methods and Technologies in Neurobiology.- Dynamics of Background and Evoked Activity of Neurons in the Auditory Cortex of the Unanaesthetized Cat.- Search for Markers of Moderate Cognitive Disorders through Phase Synchronization between Rhythmic Photostimulus and EEG Pattern.- Astrocytes Enhance Image Representation Encoded in Spiking Neural Network.- Classification of Neuron Type Based on Average Activity.- Comparative Analysis of Statistical and Neural Network Classification Methods on the Example of Synthesized Data in the Stimulus-Independent Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm.- Shunting Effect of Synaptic Channels Located on Presynaptic Terminal.- Analysis of Appearances, Formation and Evolution of Biological Functional Systems.- The Reinforcement Learning Theory, Value Function, and the Nature of Value Function Calculation by the Insular Cortex.- To the Role of Inferior Olives in Cerebellar Neuromechanics.- Individual Differences in Mismatch-Induced c-Fos Expression in the Retrosplenial Cortex in Rats: Shift in Activity is Layer-Specific.- Sleep of Poor and Good Nappers under the Afternoon Exposure to Weak 2-Hz/8-Hz Electromagnetic Fields.- Part IV: Applications of Neural Networks.- Classification of Light Microscopy Image Using Probabilistic Bayesian Neural Network.- SPICE Model of Analog Content-Addressable Memory Based on 2G FeFET Crossbar.- IQ-GAN: Instance Quantized Image Synthesis.- Specifics of Crossbar Resistor Arrays.- Recurrent and Graph Neural Networks for Particle Tracking at the BM@N Experiment.- Modeling of a Neural Network Algorithm for Suppressing Non-Stationary Interference in an Adaptive Antenna Array.- Learning Various Locomotion Skills from Scratch with Deep Reinforcement Learning.- Center3dAugNet: Effect of Rotation Representation on One-Stage Joint Car Detection and 6D-Pose Estimation.- Global memory transformer for processing long documents.- Development of the Convolutional Neural Network for Defining the Renal Pathology Using Computed Tomography Images.- Possibility of Using Various Architectures of Convolutional Neural Networks in the Problem of Determining the Type of Rhythm.- DeepPavlov Topics: Topic Classification Dataset for Conversational Domain in English.- Multi-Input Convolutional Neural Networks in Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Tasks.- Integration of Data and Algorithms in Solving Inverse Problems of Spectroscopy of Solutions by Machine Learning Methods.- Investigation of Pareto Front of Neural Network Approximation of Solution of Laplace Equation in Two Statements: with Discontinuous Initial Conditions or with Measurement Data?.- Multitask learning for extensive object description to improve scene understanding on monocular video.- Use of Classification Algorithms to Predict the Grade of Geomagnetic Disturbance.- Information processing in spiking neuron-astrocyte network in ageing.- Multilingual Case-insensitive Named Entity Recognition.- Multi-level Pipeline for Data Mining with Similar Structure.- Creating a Brief Review of Judicial Practice Using Clustering Methods.- Part V: Neural Network Theory, Concepts and Architectures.- "Gas” instead of “Liquid”: which Liquid State Machine is Better?.- Using a Resistor Array to Tackle Optimization Problems.- Generative Adversarial Networks as an Approach to Unsupervised Link Prediction Problem.- DGAC: Dialog Graph AutoConstruction up on Data with a Regular Structure.- Relay System of Differential Equations with Delay as a Perceptron Model.- Analysis of Predictive Capabilities of Adaptive Multilayer Models with Physics-Based Architecture for Duffing Oscillator?.- An Attempt to Formalize the Formulation of the Network Architecture Search Problem for Convolutional Neural Networks.- Use of Conditional Variational Autoencoders and Partial Least Squares in Solving an Inverse Problem of Spectroscopy.- On the Similarities between Denoising Diffusion Models and Autoencoders.
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Springer International Publishing AG Basic and Translational Applications of the
Book SynopsisA recently proposed novel scheme of dystonia suggests that it is a disorder of neural network. Impairment in any of the “nodes” of the network may result in deficient network activity, causing dystonia. This book aims to present various experimental evidence supporting the network theory of dystonia. Dystonia is the abnormal twisting and turning of the organ and associated involuntary oscillations. Although dystonia is less common than Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, or stroke, each of these common disorders present with dystonia. Information regarding the brain regions that may be involved in dystonia is surprisingly limited and often conflicting. With chapters written by subject matter experts, this is a unique title that focuses on dystonia as a network disorder. This book would be of interest to basic and clinical researchers with an interest in motor systems and movement disorders.Table of ContentsEditorialDystonia in childhood - how insights from paediatric research enrich the network theory of dystoniaFocal Dystonia and the Stress-NetworkLimbic influences in Musicians dystoniaNetwork perspective on task-specific dystoniaElectromyography as a method for distinguising dystonia-like behavior in miceDeep brain stimulation of the interposed cerebellar nuclei in a mouse model of dystoniaApplications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for understanding and treating dystoniaBrain connectivity in dystonia: evidence from MagnetoencephalographyDysfunctional networks in functional dystoniaCollicular-pulvinar-amygdala axis and adult-onset idiopathic focal dystonia syndrome Neuromodulation in dystoniaElectrophysiological properties of pallidal cells in cervical dystonia patients undergoing unilateral DBSClinical implications of dystonia as a neural network disorder
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Springer International Publishing AG Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia: User-led
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the brain, body, and lived experience, including experience of Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Semantic Dementia, and Lewy Body Dementia. The co-authors reflect on their experience with informal and formal care, before finishing with a focus on the spectrum of dementia research from clinical trials to user-led research. Throughout the book, co-authors have shared personal stories of how dementia has affected them and people with lived experience of dementia share what they wish people knew about living with the disease. Co-produced by people with lived experience of dementia, academics and health care professionals, this book is an accessible resource about dementia from the perspective of people actively involved in the field and essential reading for healthcare professionals wishing to learn more about the experience of this neuroprogressive condition, as well as policymakers, and members of the public.Table of Contents1. Coproducing a book on dementia research.- 2. Taking part in Alzheimer’s disease research.- 3. Taking part in Vascular dementia research.- 4. Taking part in Fronto-Temporal dementia research.- 5. Taking part in Parkinson’s dementia research.- 6. Taking part in dementia with lewy bodies research.- 7. Taking part in PCA dementia research.- 8. Lessons for future research in dementia.
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Palgrave Macmillan How to Build a Human Brain
Book SynopsisIntroduction: basic building materials.- How to build a hindbrain.- How to build a limbic system.- How to build occipital lobes.- How to build parietal lobes.- How to build temporal lobes.- How to build the chemical senses.- Creating consciousness: building the front lobes.- Principles of plasticity.
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Springer Neuroepigenetics Mechanisms in Health and Disease
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Basic Epigenetic Mechanisms.- Chapter 2. Epigenetics in Learning and Memory.- Chapter 3. Epigenetics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Chapter 4. The Promise of Epigenetic Editing for Treating Brain Disorders.- Chapter 5. Epigenetic Control in Schizophrenia.- Chapter 6. Environmental Enrichment and Epigenetic Changes in the Brain: From the Outside to the Deep Inside.- Chapter 7. Remodeling the Epigenome through Meditation: Effects on Brain, Body, and Well-Being.
£151.99
Springer Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology
Book SynopsisDisturbances in Auditory and Visual Perceptual Function in Schizophrenia Patterns, Causes, and Consequences.- How Layer Specific fMRI Can Contribute to Understanding Perceptual Disturbances Across Psychiatric Disorders.- Sensory and Multisensory Processing Changes and Their Contributions to Autism and Schizophrenia.- Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.- Computational Approaches for Uncovering Interoceptive Mechanisms in Psychiatric Disorders and Their Biological Basis.- Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders.- Emerging Theories of Allostatic Interoceptive Overload in Neurodegeneration.- The Neurophysiology of Interoceptive Disruptions in Trauma Exposed Populations.- Dissociative Symptoms and Interoceptive Integration.- Predictive Processing and the Pathophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorder.- The Future of Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology.
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Thieme Publishing Group Microsurgery of Skull Base Paragangliomas
Book SynopsisRepresenting the pinnacle of skull base surgery, paraganglioma management requires the advanced surgical skills and expertise that are presented by Dr. Mario Sanna and his team in this comprehensive reference. It incorporates extensive surgical and radiological data compiled over 20 years at the preeminent Gruppo Otologica Clinic in Piacenza, Italy, and features the exquisite intraoperative photographs and schematic diagrams that are a hallmark of the highly regarded Sanna texts. All head and neck and skull base surgeons will find their knowledge, technical proficiency, and ability to manage these challenging tumors vastly increased by this informative resource. Special Features: Step-by-step descriptions of the full range of head and neck paraganglioma procedures, including the infratemporal fossa approach type A, the extreme lateral approach, and the transcervical approach, plus guidance on managing complex tympanojugular paragangliomas More than 1,800 clearly labeled, high-quality intraoperative photographs correlated to full-color schematic drawings for an in-depth understanding of techniques Detailed discussion of managing the internal carotid artery during procedures, including the neuroradiological use of stents Pathology-oriented structure that allows the reader to identify a lesion at a particular stage and then follow the critical thinking, assessment, pre-operative management, and intra-operative course taken by the surgeon Comprehensive sections on pathology, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, and new genetic breakthroughs that lay the groundwork for the surgical chapters Tips, hints, and pitfalls at the end of each chapter that offer valuable insights for managing different clinical scenarios Demonstrating the complex decision-making process in many actual cases and offering practical advice for handling complications, this book puts the reader into the operating room with the surgeon. It is indispensable for all head and neck and skull base surgeons who manage paragangliomas and related pathologies, as well as for otolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, radiologists, and interventional radiologists involved in assessing these intricate conditions.
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Thieme Publishing Group NPH - Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus:
Book SynopsisOften misunderstood and misdiagnosed, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a disease of the elderly that is on the rise as the population ages. Its similarities to Parkinson's disease, dementia and other chronic neurodegenerative conditions make diagnosis challenging, requiring clinicians to be alert to the signs and symptoms that differentiate it. Here is the first comprehensive book on the topic, written by experts who have researched and taught courses on NPH for years. From clinical characteristics and pathophysiology to signs and symptoms, radiographic findings, diagnostic tests and state-of-the-art treatment techniques, it covers everything practitioners need to know about this multi-faceted condition. Special Features: Describes the classic symptom triad of gait disturbance, urinary incontinence and dementia Covers the full sequence of the diagnostic work-up, including imaging studies, non-invasive tests, and invasive procedures such as lumbar infusion and cerebrospinal tap tests Explains the risks and benefits of surgical implantation of a ventricular-peritoneal (VP) shunt to relieve symptoms and restore function, including key criteria for evaluating "shunt responsiveness" Provides the first step-by-step account of operative shunt placement by Dr. Michael Fritsch, who has performed the procedure extensively at leading neurosurgical centers throughout the world Including troubleshooting techniques following shunt surgery, long-term management of patients, prognosis for the condition and future initiatives, this all-inclusive reference makes a major contribution to the field. It is essential for neurosurgeons, neurologists, internists, residents, and other physicians who treat diseases of the elderly in everyday practice.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Epidemiology of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus 3 History 4 Clinical Characteristics and Differential Diagnosis 5 Pathophysiology 6 Noninvasive Diagnostic Work-up 7 Imaging 8 Invasive Diagnostic Work-up 9 Shunt and Valve Technology 10 Shunt and Valve Settings 11 Surgical Technique 12 Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus 13 Scales and Score 14 Follow-up Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus 15 Complications 16 Prognosis 17 Summary and Future Perspectives
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Springer International Publishing AG Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Book SynopsisThis classic text has been used in over 20 countries by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics, physiology, medical physics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. It bridges the gap between an introductory physics course and the application of physics to the life and biomedical sciences. Extensively revised and updated, the fifth edition incorporates new developments at the interface between physics and biomedicine. New coverage includes cyclotrons, photodynamic therapy, color vision, x-ray crystallography, the electron microscope, cochlear implants, deep brain stimulation, nanomedicine, and other topics highlighted in the National Research Council report BIO2010. As with the previous edition, the first half of the text is primarily biological physics, emphasizing the use of ideas from physics to understand biology and physiology, and the second half is primarily medical physics, describing the use of physics in medicine for diagnosis (mainly imaging) and therapy. Prior courses in physics and in calculus are assumed. Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is also ideal for self study and as a reference for workers in medical and biological research. Over 850 problems test and enhance the student's understanding and provide additional biological examples. A solutions manual is available to instructors. Each chapter has an extensive list of references.Table of ContentsMechanics.- Exponential Growth and Decay.- Systems of Many Particles.- Transport in an Infinite Medium.- Transport Through Neutral Membranes.- Impulses in Nerve and Muscle Cells.- The Exterior Potential and the Electrocardiogram.- Biomagnetism.- Electricity and Magnetism at the Cellular Level.- Feedback and Control.- The Method of Least Squares and Signal Analysis.- Images.- Sound and Ultrasound.- Atoms and Light.- Interaction of Photons and Charged Particles with Matter.- Medical Use of X Rays.- Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Medicine.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Appendices.- Plane and Solid Angles.- Vectors: Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration.- Properties of Exponents and Logarithms.- Taylor’s Series.- Some Integrals of Sines and Cosines.- Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients.- Mean and Standard Deviation.- Binomial Probability Distribution.- Gaussian Probability Distribution.- Poisson Distribution.- Integrals Involving exp(-ax^2).- Spherical and Cylindrical Coordinates.- Joint Probability Distributions.- Partial Derivatives.- Fundamental Constants and Conversion Factors.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Neuropharmacology of Alcohol
Book SynopsisThis volume gives an overview of new insights to alcohol pharmacology using DREADDs (Designer Receptors and Unraveling the Neuropharmacology of Alcohol). It examines which pharmacological principles should be applied to understanding DREADDs taking into account some very current research. Additionally, this book covers important topics under the heading of “experimental pharmacology” and alcohol.Table of ContentsPart 1. Neurotransmitter systems.- 1. GABAA receptor subtype mechanism and the abuse related effects of ethanol: Genetic and pharmacological evidence.- 2. Presynaptic Ethanol Actions: Potential Roles in Ethanol Seeking.- 3. Dynamic adaptation in neurosteroid networks in response to alcohol.- 4. GABA and Glutamate synaptic co-adaptations to chronic ethanol in the striatum.- 5. The cerebellar GABAAR system as a potential target for treating alcohol use disorder.- 6. Do alcohol-related AMPA-type glutamate receptor adaptations promote intake?.- 7. Molecular, neuronal and behavioral effects of ethanol and nicotine interactions.- 8. Cross-species alterations in synaptic dopamine regulation after chronic alcohol exposure.- 9. Central noradrenergic interactions with alcohol and regulation of alcohol related behaviors.- Part 2. Ion Channels.- 10. Voltage-sensitive calcium channels in the brain: Relevance to alcohol intoxication and withdrawal.- 11. Voltage-sensitive potassium channels of the BK type and their coding genes are alcohol targets in neurons.- 12. Chronic alcohol, intrinsic excitability, and potassium channels: Neuroadaptations and drinking behavior.- Part 3. Neuroimmune system.- 13. Hepatic immune system adaptations to alcohol.- 14. Innate immune signaling and alcohol use disorders.- 15. Cytokins in the CNS.- Part 4. Neuropeptides and Genomics.- 16. Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) Neurocircuitry and neuropharmacology in alcohol drinking.- 17. Contribution of dynorphin and orexin neuropeptide systems to the motivational effects of alcohol.- 18. Transcriptional regulators as targets for alcohol pharmacotherapies.- Part 5. Pharmacotherapy.- 19. Advances in Pharmacotherapy Development From Preclinical Animal Studies.- 20. Advances in Pharmacotherapy Development: Human Clinical Studies.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuro-Informatics
Book SynopsisThe Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuro-Informatics is the first published book in one volume that explains together the basics and the state-of-the-art of two major science disciplines in their interaction and mutual relationship, namely: information sciences, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. Bioinformatics is the area of science which is concerned with the information processes in biology and the development and applications of methods, tools and systems for storing and processing of biological information thus facilitating new knowledge discovery. Neuroinformatics is the area of science which is concerned with the information processes in biology and the development and applications of methods, tools and systems for storing and processing of biological information thus facilitating new knowledge discovery. The text contains 62 chapters organized in 12 parts, 6 of them covering topics from information science and bioinformatics, and 6 cover topics from information science and neuroinformatics. Each chapter consists of three main sections: introduction to the subject area, presentation of methods and advanced and future developments. The Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuroinformatics can be used as both a textbook and as a reference for postgraduate study and advanced research in these areas. The target audience includes students, scientists, and practitioners from the areas of information, biological and neurosciences.With Forewords by Shun-ichi Amari of the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Saitama and Karlheinz Meier of the University of Heidelberg, Kirchhoff-Institute of Physics and Co-Director of the Human Brain Project.Trade ReviewFrom the book reviews:“This handbook is structured in 12 parts, covering a wide variety of notions associated with bio- and neuroinformatics … . The handbook is a valuable and timely resource, which can be used by undergraduates, postgraduates and established researchers. By presenting together a variety of (linked) approaches, it provides a fantastic source for bioinformaticians and neuroinformaticians alike.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH, Vol. 1304, 2015)“This is the very best of the encyclopedias and comprehensive book’s about both Medical, Molecular, Genetic, and Neural Informatics currently available. … this is a good textbook for graduate students as a Primer on Neurophysiology and Molecular Medicine. Professionals in these areas will find this book very useful in their daily work … . book is very well referenced at the end of each chapter discussion. … I am pleased to recommend this book to new researchers in the field.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, November, 2014)Table of ContentsChap. 1 Understanding Nature - Symbiosis of Information Science, Bioinformatics and NeuroinformaticsPart A Understanding Information Processes in Biological Systems (Ed. Heike Sichtig)Chap. 2 Information Processing at the Cellular Level.- Chap. 3 Integrated Approaches for Understadning the Cell.- Chap. 4 Information Processing at the Genomics Level.- Chap. 5 Understanding Information Processes at the Proteomics Level.- Chap. 6 Pattern Formation and Animal Morphogenesis.- Chap. 7 Understanding Evolving Bacteria ColoniesPart B Molecular Biology, Genome and Proteome Informatics (Ed.: Chris Brown)Chap. 8 Exploring Interactions and Structural Organization of Genomes.- Chap. 9 Detecting microRNA Signatures Using Gene Expression Analysis.- Chap. 10 Bioinformatics Methods to Discover Cis-Regulatory Elements.- Chap. 11 Protein Modeling and Structural PredictionPart C Machine-Learning Methods (Eds: Irwin King, Kaizhu Huang, Heike Sichtig)Chap. 12 Machine Learning Methodology in Bioinformatics.- Chap. 13 Case-Based Reasoning for Biomedical Informatics and Medicine.- Chap. 14 Analysis of Multiple DNA Microarray Datasets.- Chap. 15 Fuzzy Logic and Rule-Based Methods in Bioinformatics.- Chap. 16 Phylogenetic Cladograms: Understanding and Learning from Biomedical Data.- Chap. 17 Understanding Protein Folding Modeling.- Chap. 18 Kernel Methods and Applications in BioinformaticsPart D Modeling Regulatory Networks: The Systems Biology Approach (Eds: Chris Brown, Heike Sichtig, Irwin King, Kaizhu Huang, Francesco Masulli)Chap. 19 Path Finding in Biological Networks.- Chap. 20 Inferring Transcription Networks from Data.- Chap. 21 Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation.- Chap. 22 Inferring Genetic Networks.- Chap. 23 Structural Pattern Discovery.- Chap. 24 Molecular Networks - Representation and Analysis.- Chap. 25 Whole-Exome Sequencing DataPart E Bioinformatics Databases and Ontologies (Ed.: Francesco Masulli)Chap. 26 Bioinformatics Databases.- Chap. 27 Ontologies for BioinformaticsPart F Bioinformatics in Medicine, Health and Ecology (Eds: Francesco Masulli, Danilo Mandic)Chap. 28 Statistical Signal Processing Models And Methods.- Chap. 29 Epigenetics.- Chap. 30 Control of Autoimmune Diseases.- Chap. 311 Nutrigenomics.- Chap. 32 Bioinformatics and Nanotechnologies: Nanomedicine.- Chap. 33 Information Modeling Technologies for Personalized Medicine.- Chap. 34 Health Informatics.- Chap. 35 Ecological Informatics Part G Understanding Information Processes in the Brain and the Nervous System (Ed.: Heike Sichtig)Chap. 36 Information Processing in Synapses.- Chap. 37 Spiking Neural Networks.- Chap. 38 Statistical Methods for fMRI Activation Detection.- Chap. 39 Neural Circuit Models and Neuropathological Oscillations.- Chap. 40 Understanding the Brain via fMRI ClassificationPart H Advanced Signal-Processing Methods for Brain Signal Analysis and Modeling (Ed.: Danilo Mandic)Chap. 41 Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering in Kernel Spaces.- Chap. 42 Analysis of Multiple Spike Trains.- Chap. 43 Adaptive Multiscale Time-Frequency AnalysisPart I Information Modeling of Perception, Sensation and Cognition (Eds: Lubica Benuskova, Heike Sichtig)Chap. 44 Modeling Vision with the Neocognitron.- Chap. 45 Information Processing in the Gustatory System.- Chap. 46 EEG Signal Processing for Brain Computer Interfaces.- Chap. 47 Spiking Neural Networks.- Chap. 48 Neurocomputational Models of Natural LanguagePart J Neuroinformatics Databases and Ontologies (Eds: Shiro Usui, Raphael Ritz)Chap. 49 Ontologies and Machine Learning Systems .- Chap. 50 Integration of Large-Scale NeuroinformaticsPart K Information Modeling for Brain Diseases (Eds: Lubica Benuskova, Francesco Masulli)Chap. 51 Alzheimer’s Disease.- Chap. 52 Integrating Data for Modeling Biological Complexity.- Chap. 53 A Machine Learning Pipeline .- Chap. 54 Modeling Gene-Dependent Dynamics of Cortex and Epilepsy.- Chap. 55 Information Methods for Predicting Stroke.- Chap. 56 Recognition of Rehabilitation ActionsPart L Nature Inspired Integrated Information Technologies(Eds: Lubica Benuskova, Danilo Mandic)Chap. 57 Brain-Like Robotics.- Chap. 58 Developmental Learning for User Activities.- Chap. 59 Quantum and Biocomputing - Common Notions and Targets.- Chap. 60 Brain-, Gene-, and Quantum-Inspired Computational Intelligence.- Chap. 61 The Brain and Creativity.- Chap. 62 The Allen Brain AtlasAcknowledgements.- About the Authors.- Subject Index
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Neuroeconomics
Book SynopsisThis book represents one of the cornerstones of the series Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. It is divided into eight sections, starting with an introduction to neuroeconomics followed by an overview of frequently applied experimental paradigms (games) in neuroeconomics research. Furthermore, it addresses the molecular basis of human decision making, environmental/situational factors and social contexts influencing human decision making, as well as translational and developmental/clinical approaches to neuroeconomics. In closing, a paper on neuro-marketing demonstrates how knowledge from neuroeconomics research can be applied in “real life.” Culminating in an extensive methods section, in which eight different neuroscience techniques are introduced, the book offers an essential resource for researchers and practitioners, and may also be beneficial for graduate students.Table of ContentsIntroduction into the Field of Neuroeconomics.- Historical Aspects of Neuroeconomics.- Game Theory and Human Decision Making.- Paradigms in Neuroeconomics.- Human Decision Making and the Brain: Structure and Functionality of the Central Nervous System.- Methods in Neuroeconomics.- Hormones.- Genetics.- Empirical Findings in Neuroeconomics – State of the Art.- Loss Aversion.- Trust.- Risk.- Impulsivity.- Dictator game.- Ultimatum Game.- Third Party Punishment.- Decision Making under Ambiguity.- Altruism.- Pathological Decision Making.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 7.0 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas: In-vivo Atlas with
Book SynopsisThe inaugural publication of the 7.0 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas: In Vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation in 2010 provided readers with a spectacular source of ultra-high resolution images revealing a wealth of details of the brainstem and midbrain structures. This second edition contributes additional knowledge gained as a result of technologic advances and recent research. To facilitate identification and comparison of brain structures and anatomy, a detailed coordination matrix is featured in each image. Updated axial, sagittal, and coronal images are also included. This state-of-the-art and user-friendly reference will provide researchers and clinicians with important new perspectives.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- Preface of the 2nd Edition.- Introduction.- 1. Reference of Brain Image Setting.- 2. Orientation of Brain Images.- I. Orientation of the image sections and planes.- II. Standard of the sectional brain image planes and sizes.- III. Adjustment of MRI brain to the reference brain.- IV. Terminology & Labeling.- V. Data collection system for clinicopathologic brain mapping.- VI. Figures (Figs. 1, 2, 3).- 3. Sources of Brain Images.- I. In vivo Images using 7.0T MRI.- II. Cadaver Images by Cryomacrotome.- III. Image reconstruction and volume rendering.- 4. 3D Images by Volume Rendering.- I. Coronal, Sagittal and Axial Cuts- Cadaver (Fig. 4).- II. Coronal, Sagittal and Axial Cuts- MRI (Fig. 5).- III. Sulcus and Gyrus- MRI (Fig. 6).- IV.Brodmann areas-MRI (Fig. 7).- Acknowledgements.- Chapter I. Coronal Images of Cadaver & Human Brain of 7.0T MRI In Vivo.- Chapter II. Sagittal Images of Cadaver & Human Brain of 7.0T MRI In Vivo.- Chapter III. Axial Images of Cadaver & Human Brain of 7.0T MRI In Vivo.- References.- Abbreviations.- Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Einführung in die Theorie der kognitiven
Book SynopsisKognitive Kommunikation dient Menschen und Maschinen zum Wissenserwerb. Der Zuwachs an Wissen besteht dabei in der gewonnenen Information der empfangenen Signale. Maschinensprachen und von Menschen gesprochene natürliche Sprachen unterscheiden sich darin, dass die Signale von Maschinensprachen scharf definierte Bedeutungen haben, während die Bedeutungen von Signalen der natürlichen Sprachen in hohem Maß unscharf sind. Werner Rupprecht legt dar, wie unscharfe Bedeutungen in den Hirnen von Menschen entstehen, und dass paradoxerweise wegen dieser Unschärfen Menschen fähig sind, Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen, die Maschinen nicht gelingen. Er erläutert im Detail Zusammenhänge zwischen informationstheoretischer Entropie, thermodynamischer Entropie und Energie, beschreibt die Sinnesorgane von Menschen, die Verarbeitung von Signalen in neuronalen Netzen und Maschinen, die Entwicklung von Medien, insbesondere des Internets, und diskutiert die Rolle eines immateriellen Geistes.Trade Review“… stellt Insgesamt eine interessante Verknüpfung psychologischer bzw. Biologischer Erklärungsansätze mit den Ingenieurwissenschaften dar. … eine interessante und aufschlussreiche Kombination aus verschiedenen Disziplinen darstellt.” (Sandra Fuchs, in: Psychologie FoxBlog, sanfuchs1979.wordpress.com, 20. Juli 2016)“... wendet sich in erster Linie an Fachleute der Nachrichtentechnik und Informationstechnik. Aber auch nicht aus dem Fachgebiet kommende Wissenschaftler und Praktiker kõnnen wichtige Erkenntnisse aus dem Buch gewinnen. ... ist für jeden Fachmann ein großer Gewinn.” (Hans Kah/en, in: Elektronik, Heft 18, 2015)Table of ContentsHintergründe und Konzeption vorliegender Abhandlung.- Bezüge, Wirkungen und Arten von Kommunikation.- Information: Ereignis, Wahrscheinlichkeit, Entropie und Sinngehalt.- Zusammenhänge von Energie, Entropie und Informationshöhe.- Transport von Nachrichten und Information.- Über Wahrnehmung, Artikulation und deren Beziehungen zueinander.- Über die Entstehung von Bedeutungen und Sprache.- Epilog.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Der Geist als komplexes Quantensystem:
Book SynopsisImre Koncsik beschreibt die Theorie des Geistes als naturphilosophische Theorie auf Basis der Physik. Er identifiziert signifikante Parallelen zwischen Geist und Gehirn, die beide durch Elemente der Quantentheorie und der komplexen Systemtheorie beschrieben werden können. Beide Theorien beziehen sich auf eine immaterielle, formale und imaginäre Schicht der Realität. Sie ermöglichen eine innovative Beschreibung der morphologischen Strukturen und dynamischen Aktivitätsmuster des Gehirns in Analogie zu Mustern des Geistes. Eine Theorie des Geistes bildet hinsichtlich ihrer technologischen Applikation den Grundstein einer neuen, im eigentlichen Sinn „intelligenten“ Technologie: der quantenbasierten Systemtechnologie.Table of ContentsWas Sie in diesem Essential finden können.- Der sog. Geist.- Physik: Anorganische Quantenstrukturen.- Mikroskopische Quantenstrukturen: Quantum Life.- Mesoskopische Quantenstrukturen: das System Geist-Gehirn.- Ausblick: quantenbasierte System-Technologie.- Was Sie aus diesem Essential mitnehmen können.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Beiträge zur Geschichte der Synergetik:
Book SynopsisDie Autoren geben als aktiv Beteiligte erstmalig aus ihrem persönlichen Erleben einen Einblick auf die ersten zwei Jahrzehnte der Synergetik-Geschichte. Hermann Haken führt in die Begrifflichkeit der Synergetik ein und verdeutlicht die Schwierigkeiten, eine neues Denken in der Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Peter Plath geht exemplarisch auf die Vorgeschichte der Synergetik ein und zeigt an einem Fallbeispiel aus der Chemie, wie die Idee der Synergetik zum Leitmotiv einer Forschungsgruppe wurde. Werner Ebeling und Yuri Romanovsky beschreiben die intensive Kooperation der Wissenschaftler aus Ost und West bei der Herausbildung neuer Ideen zur Synergetik. Table of ContentsTeil I: Entwicklungslinien der Synergetik.- Teil II: Zurückliegende Entwicklungen: Makroskopische Musterbildung in der Chemie noch vor der Synergetik.- Teil III: Entwicklung der Synergetik und Theorie der Selbstorganisation in Osteuropa und der DDR 1971–1990.- Teil IV: Konferenzen, Tagungen und Seminare zur Synergetik und Theorie der Selbstorganisation in Osteuropa und in der DDR.- Teil V: Entstehung der Chemischen Synergetik in Bremen – ein Fallbeispiel.- Teil VI: Winterseminare auf dem Zeinisjoch – Diskussionen zur Synergetik.- Über die Autoren.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Lern- und Gedächtnispsychologie
Book SynopsisDieses Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über „klassische“ Theorien, Modelle und Studien der Lern- und Gedächtnispsychologie. Darüber hinaus behandelt es das Thema „zielgerichtetes Verhalten“ und wie dieses mit Lern- und Gedächtnisprozessen zusammenhängt. Es dient damit als Einführung in die für das Psychologiestudium zentrale Grundlagenforschung zu Lern- und Gedächtnisprozessen, als Vertiefungslektüre in einigen ausgewählten Teilgebieten sowie als Fundament für die Anwendungsgebiete der Psychologie. Eine Begleit-Website auf www.lehrbuch-psychologie.de bietet Lern-Tools für Studierende und Materialien für Dozenten.Trade Review“… Der gut strukturierte Aufbau ... unterstützt den Erwerb des Wissens: Lernziele, Zwischenüberschriften, Abbildungen, Tabellen und Kästen mit Fallstudien oder Exkursen illustrieren, klären und vertiefen das Gesagte ...” (Alexander Loretto, in: Schule, Heft 283, Mai 2016)“Das Lehrbuch ist klar gegliedert. ... Das Lehrbuch vermittelt einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick, der auch die Zusammenhänge im Blick hat und das gut verständlich ohne das Niveau darunter leiden zu lassen,. Sehr empfehlenswert sowohl für Studierende als auch für Lehrende, die einen fundierten Einblick in die Lern- und Gedächtnispsychologie erhalten mochten.” (Karl Schäfer, in: Amazon.de, 18. August 2016)“... Ein empfehlenswertes Lehrbuch, mit dem das Erarbeiten der Grundlagen der Lern- und Gedächtnispsychologie Spaß macht.” (Sandra Fuchs, in: Psychologie FoxBlog, sanfuchs1979.wordpress.com, 5. Mai 2016)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- I. Lernen und semantisches Gedächtnis.- Lernen als Bildung von Reiz-Reaktions-Verbindungen.- Lernen als Bildung von Verhaltens-Effekt-Beziehungen.- Der Erwerb willkürlichen, zielgerichteten Verhaltens beim Menschen.- Das semantische Gedächtnis: Bildung und Repräsentation konzeptuellen Wissens.- II. Episodisches Gedächtnis.- Einleitung zum episodischen Gedächtnis.- Mehrspeichermodelle: Unterscheidung von Kurz- und Langzeitgedächtnis.- Prozessmodelle: Das Behalten von Episoden als Funktion von Enkodier- und Abrufprozessen.- Systemmodelle: Sensorische und motorische Prozesse beim episodischen Erinnern.- Episodisches Gedächtnis und Hirnforschung: Systeme als funktional differenzierte Hirnstrukturen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Neurowissenschaften: Ein grundlegendes Lehrbuch
Book SynopsisDer perfekte Einstieg in die Neurowissenschaften – ideal zum Verstehen und LernenSeit vielen Jahren zählt diese didaktisch durchdachte, verständlich geschriebene und hervorragend illustrierte Einführung international zu den führenden Lehrbüchern im Bereich der Neurowissenschaften. Das moderne Grundlagenwerk richtet sich an Studierende der Biologie, der Medizin und der Psychologie gleichermaßen. Die wieder von Andreas Engel herausgegebene deutsche Ausgabe ist an die hiesige Studiensituation angepasst und stellenweise erweitert. Der Bogen spannt sich von der Anatomie des Gehirns bis zur Sinnesphysiologie, von der Entwicklungsbiologie bis zum Verhalten, von den Störungen des Nervensystems bis zur Kognitionswissenschaft, von den molekularen Mechanismen bis zu den neuen bildgebenden Verfahren. Ein eigenständiger „Bildatlas der menschlichen Neuroanatomie“ erlaubt dem Lernenden, seine Kenntnisse der Hirnstrukturen zu überprüfen und zu erweitern. Jedes Kapitel endet mit Verständnisfragen und Übungsaufgaben sowie einer Zusammenstellung wichtiger weiterführender Literatur. In spannenden Exkursen berichten renommierte Wissenschaftler, wie sie zu ihren entscheidenden Entdeckungen kamen. So führt das Buch den Leser von den Grundlagen zu den aktuellen Forschungsthemen des Faches.In der durchgehend aktualisierten 4. Auflage sind unter anderem neue Forschungsergebnisse zu Optogenetik, Konnektomik, tiefer Hirnstimulation, molekularer Medizin und Neuroökonomie eingearbeitet worden. Zahlreiche neue oder aktualisierte Abbildungen veranschaulichen in bewährter Manier die im Text beschriebenen Prozesse, Strukturen und Methoden. Wer Neurowissenschaften in ihrer ganzen Bandbreite verstehen will, ist mit "dem Bear" bestens bedient. Den drei Verfassern des Buches gelingt, womit Lehrbuchautoren im deutschsprachigen Raum sich nach wie vor schwer tun: anschaulich und spannend den Leser vom Einstieg in die Grundlagen bis an die vorderste Front der Forschung mitzunehmen und ohne überflüssigen Ballast wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis mehr erzählend als erklärend zu vermitteln … Ein didaktisches Meisterwerk ist nun topaktuell auch in deutscher Sprache neu aufgelegt verfügbar. Aus dem Vorwort von Prof. Andreas K. Engel, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-EppendorfTrade Review“... einen soliden Überblick über Grundlagen, Anatomie, Funktion und Krankheiten unseres Zentralen und Peripheren Nervensystems. Der Schreibstil ist klar und präzise und Kontrollfragen am Kapitelende erleichtern die Lernkontrolle. ... Selbstverständlich sind diese Kritikpunkte marginal angesichts eines im Grossen und Ganzen durchaus gelungenen Lehrbuches.” (Thomas Floss, in: BIOspektrum, Jg. 25, Heft 1, Februar 2019)Table of ContentsI Grundlagen.- Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Neurowissenschaft.- Neuronen und Gliazellen.- Die neuronale Membran im Ruhezustand.- Das Aktionspotenzial.- Die synaptische Übertragung.- Neurotransmittersysteme.- Die Struktur des Nervensystems.- Anhang: Bildatlas der menschlichen Neuroanatomie.- II Sensorische und motorische Systeme.- Die chemischen Sinne.- Das Auge.- Das zentrale visuelle System.- Das auditorische und das vestibuläre System.- Das somatosensorische System.- Spinale Kontrolle der Motorik.- Bewegungskontrolle durch das Gehirn.- III Gehirn und Verhalten.- Neurovegetative und modulatorische Systeme.- Motivation.- Männliches und weibliches Gehirn.- Neuronale Mechanismen der Emotion.- Gehirnrhythmen und Schlaf.- Sprache.- Aufmerksamkeit.- Psychische Erkrankungen.- IV Das adaptive Gehirn.- Die Entstehung neuronaler Schaltkreise.- Gedächtnissysteme.- Molekulare Mechanismen von Lernen und Gedächtnis.- Glossar.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Die Geburt des Bewusstseins: Über die Entwicklung
Book SynopsisDieses Sachbuch gibt verständlich, fesselnd und lebendig Einblick in die Besonderheiten der frühkindlichen Entwicklung und die Folgen von Störungen und Fehlentwicklungen des Gehirns während unterschiedlicher Phasen: vor, während und nach der Geburt. Der schwedische Kinderarzt Hugo Lagercrantz liefert populärwissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zur frühkindlichen Hirnentwicklung und kombiniert sie mit klinischen Aspekten. Er zeigt, wie sich das kindliche Gehirn im Neugeborenen– und Säuglingsalter entwickelt und erklärt daraus die Entstehung bestimmter Erkrankungen. Lagercrantz beschreibt spannende neue Erkenntnisse über Schmerzen und Stress beim Ungeborenen und klärt über das Bewusstsein des Neugeborenen auf. Für alle, die sich professionell oder aus privatem Interesse mit dem kindlichen Hirn beschäftigen wollen.Trade Review Table of Contents
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Psychoneurowissenschaften
Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen den „Neurowissenschaften“ (theoretische und experimentelle Neurobiologie, Neurologie) und den „Psychowissenschaften“ (Psychologie, Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie) und will dabei helfen, den jeweils anderen Disziplinen die wichtigsten und wissenschaftlich gesicherten Kenntnisse in verständlicher Form zu liefern. Die Frage, wie sich psychisches Erleben und Gehirnvorgänge zueinander verhalten, galt lange als rätselhaft. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie aufgrund neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, dass beide Bereiche eine unauflösliche Einheit bilden, auch wenn wir sie unterschiedlich erfahren und untersuchen. Diese Einheit stellen wir in der psychologisch-neurobiologischen Theorie und der psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutischen Praxis konkret dar. Wir behandeln die Prinzipien der neurobiologischen Erregungs- und Informationsverarbeitung, Aufbau und Funktion des limbischen Systems, die Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit und der dabei stattfindenden günstig oder ungünstig verlaufenden Interaktion genetisch-epigenetischer Faktoren und vorgeburtlich sowie nachgeburtlich stattfindender Umwelteinflüssen. Auf dieser Grundlage erfolgt die beispielhafte Darstellung wichtiger psychischer Störungen wie Suchterkrankungen, schizophrene Störungen, affektive Störungen sowie Angststörungen. In der Nachfolge des bedeutenden Psychotherapeuten Klaus Grawe wird schließlich in das, Konzept der „Neuropsychotherapie“ eingeführt und gezeigt, warum Psychotherapie und Neurobiologie zusammengehören, und sich gegenseitig bereichern können. Unser psychoneurowissenschaftlicher Ansatz zeichnet ein Menschenbild, das nicht auf Gegensätzen, sondern einer Integration von Psyche, Gehirn, Verhalten und Erleben beruht.Table of Contents1 Die Suche nach der Natur der Seele.- 2 Die funktionelle Neuroanatomie des limbischen Systems.- 3 Neuro- und Psychopharmakologie.- 4 Neurophysiologie.- 5 Entwicklungsneurobiologie.- 6 Emotion, Motivation, Persönlichkeit und ihre neurobiologischen Grundlagen.- 7 Neurobiologische Folgen früher Stresserfahrungen.- 8 Psychologische und neurobiologische Grundlagen des Bewusstseins.- 9 Natur, Diagnose und Klassifikation psychischer Erkrankungen.- 10 Psyche und psychische Erkrankung - Sucht.- 11 Psychotische Erkrankungen ("Schizophrenie").- 12 Affektive Störungen am Beispiel der unipolaren Depression.- 13 Angststörungen.- 14 Neuropsychotherapie - Psychotherapieverfahren und ihre Wirkung.- 15 Psychoneurowissenschaften und ihre Bedeutung für die Praxis.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Current Thoughts on Dementia: From Risk Factors
Book SynopsisThis informative book discusses the latest research on the risk factors and therapeutics in dementia. WHO calls dementia a public health priority. Dementia manifests as a group of symptoms associated with decline in memory or other thinking skills and is severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. It occurs frequently among elderly people, but it is not necessarily part of the normal aging process. The book has been divided into two broad sections. The first section reviews the risk factors involved in developing dementia, including various medical conditions, lifestyle choices, as well as genetics. The latter section describes various therapeutic interventions in dementia. Although there is no known cure for dementia, this book underlines the current treatment strategies that could momentarily reduce the symptoms and improve the quality of life of the patients. This book highlights the global effort to find better ways to halt the progression of dementia and develop novel therapeutic strategies. The book would be an interesting read for advanced graduate students and researchers working in the field of neuroscience, genetics, and medicine. It will generate good interest to neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, cardiologists, internal medicine practitioners, epidemiologist, and public health workers.Table of ContentsRisk Factors § Apolipoprotein E (APOE) § Histone modifications, demethylation, and microRNA regulation § Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) § Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) § Bridging integrator 1 (BIN1) § Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) § Leptin signaling § Insulin signaling § Autophagic dysfunction § Ubiquitin-proteasome system dysfunction § Circadian dysfunction § Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress § Depression § Normal pressure hydrocephalus § Antiphospholipid antibodies § Sex hormones § Changes in blood factors § Infection-induced systemic inflammation § Microbiota § Abdominal visceral fat § Atypical microvascular morphology § Plasma exosomes spread § Changes in visual cortex § Obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension § Environmental pollutions Therapeutic Interventions § NMDA receptor antagonists § Calcium channel blockers § Catecholamine § Statins § Immunotherapy § Quitting smoking § Physical activity § Diet and nutrition § Natural products as promising drug candidates § Nanotechnological applications § Electroacupuncture § Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation § Transcranial direct current stimulation § Reminiscence therapy § Reality orientation therapy § Bright-light therapy § Snoezelen multi-sensory stimulation § Behavioral therapy § Brain-computer interface applications § Music therapy § Hypoxic-hyperoxic training § Cognitive rehabilitation § Cognitive creativity § Stem cell research
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Nutrigenomics and the Brain
Book SynopsisDr. Mohammed Salama is Atlantic senior fellow for Equity in brain health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and Associate professor at the Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He established the first Translational Neuroscience Unit in Egypt. Mohamed’s collaborative research led to establishing the Egyptian Network for Neurodegenerative Disorders Mohamed was selected as a SOT Global Senior Scholar in 2013 and Translational/bridging awardee in 2016. He was awarded by Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Foundation (PMDF) for his continued research in neurodegeneration. Recently, Mohamed and his colleagues succeeded in drafting the first Reference Egyptian Genome and collaborating with other colleagues to start a national cohort (A Longitudinal Study of Egyptian Health Aging [AL-SEHA]). Table of ContentsChapter 1. Nutrigenomics; a broader concept.- Chapter 2. Gene-environment interaction.- Chapter 3. Gene-gut-brain - axis (gene–based personalized medicine).- Chapter 4. Nutrigenomics of aging.- Chapter 5. Nutrigenomics and Mental health.- Chapter 6. Nutrigenomics and neurodevelopmental disorders.- Chapter 7. Nutrigenomics and Alzheimer’s disease.- Chapter 8. Nutrigenomics and Parkinson’s Disease.- Chapter 9. Nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics and big data.- Chapter 10. Nutrigenomics and Development.- Chapter 11. Early Child malnutrition and neurodevelopment.- Chapter 12. The emerging role of vit D deficiency and Parkinson’s Disease risk.- Chapter 13. Nutrigenomics and autophagy crosstalk.- Chapter 14. Nanoparticles in food additives and brain health.
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