THE BRAIN — A "Scientific American" Book (1979)

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Autori vari: "THE BRAIN" ed. W.H. Freeman and Company, 1979 ~ collana "Scientific American" 160 (VIII + 152) pagine ~ 22 x 30 cm ~ Numerose illustrazioni a colori e in b/n Brossura con copertina illustrata ~ Fuori catalogo — ▶️ CONDIZIONI: Lievi usure e bruniture ai margini della copertina (v. foto). Interno come nuovo: pagine prive di sottolineature, scritte o annotazioni. — This book does not explain how the brain works. That remains the most alluring and baffling of all questions on the frontier of understanding. The occasion for the publication of this book is provided by the convergence of work in many fields that has begun to show us how to frame questions about the brain that yield accumulative answers. Knowledge about the brain, gathered at an accelerating rate in recent years, shows this organ to be marvelously designed and capacitated beyond the wonders with which it was invested by innocent imagination. The plan of the book corresponds to the informal organization of the enterprise of brain research that engages talent and energy on many lines of attack and at many places around the world. To begin with, it is necessary to understand the nerve cell and the chemical physics of the nerve impulse. Systems of no more than a few nerve cells in invertebrates present objects of study that are prospectively more comprehensible than the human brain and may serve as models of its subsystems. Neurosurgeons long ago began to map the localization of function on the cortex. The embryonic growth of the brain offers other clues to its anatomy and higher organization. Lately, the identification of more than 30 different transmitter molecules that jump the impulse across the synapse between one nerve cell and the next has beggared the reductionist model of the brain as a mere switchboard. […] Vedere INDICE e NOTIZIE SUGLI AUTORI in foto. — 📦 SPEDIZIONE TRACCIABILE con "Poste Delivery Standard - Punto di ritiro" o "piego di libri" raccomandato, a scelta dell'acquirente.