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" The custom-made brain : "
Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey
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BL
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625691
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dltt
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Cerveau sur mesure.English
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Vincent, Jean-Didier
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The custom-made brain : : cerebral plasticity, regeneration, and enhancement /\ Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo ; translated by Laurence Garey
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English language edition
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xiv, 180 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780231164504 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0231164505 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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9780231534215 (e-book)
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| Notes
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Translation of: Le cerveau sur mesure
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index
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| Contents
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And then there was shape. Behind diversity in the animal kingdom, a single plan ; When the zootype becomes neuronal ; The shapes we have inherited ; The conductor of the orchestra ; The story of the embryo ; Signals and mechanism ; Our new head ; Migrants on the road ; How to build a vertebrate -- The masterpiece. The cortical brain ; What is inside a walnut? ; Limbo of the mind ; The vertebrate : an emancipated animal! -- The workshop of the brain. Tissue regeneration ; New neurons in the adult ; Juvenile plasticity ; Connectional plasticity in the adult brain ; Olfaction : the prototype of epigenesis ; When the brain goes wrong ; When the cortex takes over a grafted limb ; Meditation and cerebral plasticity ; Plasticity in Homo cultiorus -- The brain under repair. Disheartening statistics ; The aging brain ; Dementia and other cerebral pathology ; Diseases of the mind ; When the brain takes over a lost limb ; The wounded brain, the incomplete brain ; The brain under stress ; Cognitive remediation -- The enhanced brain. The cerebots are coming ; I think, therefore I act ; The neurologist's Rosetta Stone ; Robots with neurons ; Fiat lux ; Brain doping ; The infinitely small in our brain ; the birth of the first nanoelements ; Nanotechnology and medicine ; When nanoscience merges with life ; Neurofeedback : cerebral bodybuilding ; The transhuman brain
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Brain-- Physiology
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Brain stimulation
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Neurophysiology
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612.8/2
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QP376.V52713 2014
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Lledo, Pierre-Marie
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