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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
268 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures — including humans — think, feel, and act.
These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host’s behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats...
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Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the various parts of the brain and the nervous system and how they function to enable us to think, feel, move, and remember.
3) Neuromancer
Author
Series
Sprawl trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial...
Author
Publisher
Little Pickle Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the anatomy and functions of the brain; describes how the the brain is able to stretch and grow; and explains how mistakes are an essential part of learning.
5) Your brain
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Your brain--for centuries a black box--is slowly giving up its secrets to modern neuroscience, shedding light on big questions that go to the very heart of who you are"--
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Language
English
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Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
x, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brings together twenty-four of Oliver Sacks’ most fascinating and beloved case studies. The patients in these pages are confronted with almost inconceivably strange neurological disorders; in Sacks’ telling, their stories are a profound testament to the adaptability of the human brain and the resilience of the human spirit. Dr. Sacks treats each of his subjects — the amnesic fifty-year-old man who believes himself to be a young sailor in the...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The powerful bond between humans and dogs is one that’s uniquely cherished. Loyal, obedient, and affectionate, they are truly “man’s best friend.” But do dogs love us the way we love them? Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns had spent decades using MRI imaging technology to study how the human brain works, but a different question still nagged at him: What is my dog thinking? After his family adopted Callie, a shy, skinny terrier...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading neuroscientist draws on physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and other disciplines to explain the inner workings of the human brain and explore the role of neuroscience in daily life. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the...
Author
Publisher
Piccadilly Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dementia and other forms of neurodegeneration are not a part of the normal aging process. You should not expect to develop dementia as you grow older. The brain is fully capable of functioning normally for a lifetime, regardless of how long a person lives. While aging is a risk factor for neurodegeneration, it is not the cause! Dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders are disease processes that can be prevented and successfully treated. This...
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Language
English
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Description
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, neurosurgeon...
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