Download or read book Galvani s Spark written by Alan McComas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galvani's Spark chronicles the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse which is the basis of all thoughts, sensations and actions. The story begins with Luigi Galvani's chance observation of a spark from a friction machine causing a frog's leg to twitch from across the room. The accurate recording and the understanding of the properties of the nerve fiber membrane that makes the impulse possible became the objectives of neuroscientists for over 200 years. The author, Alan J. McComas finely interweaves the stories, the challenges, and the controversies of the most prominent figures in neuroscience, from the histological descriptions of nerve cells by Cajal to the discovery of a three-dimensional structure of ion channels in cell membranes by MacKinnon. Along the way he details the first recordings of the impulse with a cathode ray oscilloscope by Gasser and Erlanger, Adrian's discovery that stimulus intensity is coded by the frequency of nerve impulses, and Hodgkin and Huxley's brilliant voltage clamp experiments, amongst many others. The recognition by Galvani that muscles and nerves have an electrical component triggered the field of neurophysiology and in turn has produced some of the greatest discoveries in neuroscience. 16 investigators of the nerve impulse went on to win or share Nobel prizes and this book not only emphasizes their work but also traces their brilliant careers. For anyone interested in the nervous system and the history of neuroscience, Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse is essential reading.

Download or read book The Black Mind Volume 1 written by Salvatore Palmieri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vortex of obsession, hallucinations and fear...a crescendo of curiosity and suspense opens the first volume of the collection The Black Mind. These horror novels will generate a succession of terrible events, discovering painful surprises and striking without mercy, as possessed by an homicidal rage. Darkness and solitude will arise and what has been created by the author won't stop or leave before having completed its dark task. Who isn't scared as a child because of his own imagination, during a stormy night, of some unknown presence, that is hiding at the darkness of his own house? And who, played by his own mind, tired and confused, maybe sick, hasn't felt that sensation of being followed, persecuted and hunted down by evil? You will live three exciting and thrilling horror adventures, between the absurd and the unexpected, hanging between two worlds, reality and dream, dominated by the annoying impression of being observed by a stranger.

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Download or read book Instrumental Intimacy written by Melissa M. Littlefield and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.

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Download or read book Writing the Mind written by Simon Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking." – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast the varying representations of the conscious and the unconscious mind. Grounding his study in the writings of philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcel Proust, Simon Kemp explores the non-literary influences of science, faith and philosophy as presented in their works, demonstrates how writers learn from and sometimes deviate from preceding generations, and how they agree or disagree with their peers. Kemp’s elegant study also charts the rise and wane of Freudian influence on literature through the twentieth century, and the emergence of cognitive and neo-Darwinian ideas at the dawn of the twenty-first. In the work of these seven writers, we discover radically different understandings of how consciousness and the unconscious mind are constituted, which are the most salient characteristics of mental life, and even what it is that defines a mind at all.

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Download or read book Braving the Fire written by Jessica Handler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based on the Kubler-Ross "Five Stages of Grief," this instructional guide to writing memoirs of grief or loss with honesty includes advice and wisdom from leading doctors and therapists about the physical experience of grieving.

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Download or read book Terrific Transitions written by Ellen Booth Church and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifty suggestions for keeping the attention of children when they are between activities.

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