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Principles of Neural Science
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The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or her own research.Abstract:
I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his orread more
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Is cognitive neuropsychology possible
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Dopamine receptor interactions: some implications for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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Detecting emotion from EEG signals using the emotive epoc device
TL;DR: A machine learning approach to detect emotion from brain activity, recorded as electroencephalograph (EEG) with the Emotic Epoc device, during auditory stimulation, and applies machine learning techniques to classify EEG signals into high/low arousal and positive/negative valence emotional states.
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Landau-Ginzburg theory of cortex dynamics: Scale-free avalanches emerge at the edge of synchronization.
TL;DR: Analysis of large-scale collective properties of the cortex by using a mesoscopic approach following the principle of parsimony of Landau–Ginzburg constitutes a framework to rationalize the possible collective phases and phase transitions of cortical networks in simple terms, thus helping to shed light on basic aspects of brain functioning from a very broad perspective.
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Neuronal Shot Noise and Brownian 1/f2 Behavior in the Local Field Potential
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that human electrophysiological recordings of the local field potential from intracranial electrodes, acquired from a variety of cerebral regions, show a ubiquitous 1/f2 scaling within the power spectrum.
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Structure and function of the blood–brain barrier
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