Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a very important part of this vital organ has been overlooked in most books -- until now. The Other Brain is the story of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain. Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing material ("glia" means glue), glia are sparking a revolution in brain scie...(展开全部)

[美] 约翰•瑞迪（John Ratey） ★哈佛大学医学院临床副教授，临床精神病医生、跨学科研究专家、畅销书作者，国际公认的神经精神医学领域专家。1997年荣获美国最佳医生。 ★发表超过60篇学术权威文章，8本书，被翻译成14种语言。与美国知名心理学医生爱德华•哈洛韦尔合著《分心不是我的错》一书，自1994年出版，该书始终被称为ADD-ADHD领域不可逾越的经典，直到今天仍是世界级别的畅销书籍。 1. 揭开运动与大脑秘密的人 运动、大脑、心理健康，这三个关键词几乎可以勾勒瑞迪教授的人生速描。20世纪70年代，约翰•瑞迪曾经居住在马拉松运动最为风靡的城市——波士顿，在这里，几乎人人都在跑步；在全民崇拜马拉松英雄Bill Roger的时代，实习医生瑞迪却遇见了另外一群特殊的人：因为受伤而被迫停止长跑的人。 "他们在停跑后，常常出现ADHD的特征：抑郁、...(展开全部)

"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read u...(展开全部)

How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomp...(展开全部)

A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneer...(展开全部)

A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneer...(展开全部)

作者：布雷特·斯特卡 2005年获得弗吉尼亚大学医学博士学位，2006年在纽约西奈山医学院的生物精神病学实验室完成博士后工作。曾是《医景》（Medscape，WebMD的子公司）主编，美国国家电视台（NPR）和《环球科学》杂志的定期撰稿人，并且给Wired、Slate和Popular Mechanics撰写关于大脑和基因组学、神经科学、精神病学及进化学的文章。

First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work "The Computer and the Brain" explored the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. Von Neumann showed that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own unique statistical language. And more than fifty years after its inception the "von Neumann architecture" - an organiza...(展开全部)

莉莎·费德曼·巴瑞特（Lisa Feldman Barrett） 目前担任美国心理科学协会（Association for Psychological Science，简称APS）主席。巴瑞特教授还是美国东北大学心理学系知名教授，美国艺术与科学学院院士，加拿大皇家学会院士，TED演讲人。她还在哈佛大学医学院及马萨诸塞州总医院任职，负责精神病和放射病方面的治疗研究。 巴瑞特教授专注于情绪的开创性研究，她在《科学》(Science)、《自然神经科学》（Nature Neuroscience）等专业期刊上发表了200多篇论文，并在吉尔福德出版社（Guilford Press）出版了六卷学术著作。巴瑞特教授因其在情绪方面的革命性研究荣获美国国立卫生研究院“先锋奖”。