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Named Person: | Bruce S McEwen; Margaret Altemus; Margaret Altemus; Bruce S McEwen |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cynthia A Read |
ISBN: | 9781932594249 1932594248 |
OCLC Number: | 153293741 |
Description: | xv, 251 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Stroke : we can and must do better. Improving stroke prevention and treatment now / Louis R. Caplan -- Searching for a new strategy to protect the brain / Nicolas Bazan -- Why not a national institute on pain research? / Kathleen M. Foley with Maia Szalavitz -- A brain built for fair play / Donald W. Pfaff -- Unshakling the slaves of obsession and compulsion : a brain science success story / Judith L. Rapoport and Gale Inoff-Germain -- Are we in the dark about sleepwalking's dangers? / Shelly R. Gunn and W. Stewart Gunn -- Knowing sin : making sure good science doesn't go bad / Henry T. Greely -- The intuitive magician : why belief in the supernatural persists / Bruce Hood -- Bringing the brain of the child with autism back on track / Diane C. Chugani and Kayt Sukel -- Toward a new treatment for traumatic memories / Jacek Dębiec and Margaret Altemus -- Elephants that paint, birds that make music : do animals have an aesthetic sense? / Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan -- Transforming drug development through brain imaging / Paul M. Matthews -- Hardwired for happiness / Silvia H. Cardoso -- Hope for "comatose" patients / Nicholas D. Schiff and Joseph J. Fins -- Book reviews. |
Other Titles: | Dana Foundation's Cerebrum 2007 |
Responsibility: | Cynthia A. Read, editor ; [foreword by Bruce S. McEwen with contributions from Margaret Altemus, . . .et al.]. |
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"Cerebrum is excellent, exciting, and important food for the brain." - Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind "These gracefully written essays fill the critical space between the technical reports of neuroscientists and psychologists and today's headlines." - Jerome Kagan, author of An Argument for Mind" Read more...

