What Makes You Tick?: The Brain in Plain English - Couverture rigide

Czerner, Thomas B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471371009 ISBN 13 : 9780471371007

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000

Synopsis

What is consciousness? Is there really such a thing as free will? Is there a physiological basis for an eternal soul? In What Makes You Tick?, Thomas Czerner's elegant and accessible introduction to brain research, you'll encounter the scientists and discoveries that have exponentially increased our knowledge of the brain and its functions, most significantly in the last few years. Here, Czerner has translated the arcane language of scientific journals into a highly readable Baedeker of the brain, outlining all that is known about the modern brain and the amazing promise this understanding holds for the future. In addition to tracing the vast web of cerebral roadways, Czerner deftly follows the larger historical detective story that stars neurologists and their forebears, from philosophers Descartes and Kant, to twentieth-century polymaths Francis Crick and Edwin Land, to computer scientists, who have found that the brain's parallel circuitry offers an ideal design model for microprocessors. By shining a light on the darkest recesses of our own minds, What Makes You Tick? illuminates the greatest gifts the world of science bestows, in addition to touching on the ethical dilemmas facing us as we begin to alter ourselves on the cellular level. Above all, What Makes You Tick? will forever change the way you think about thinking.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

THOMAS B. CZERNER, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco and is a senior faculty consultant of the Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the California Pacific Medical Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471371009
• ISBN 13: 9780471371007
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible