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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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From gene networks to brain networks
TL;DR: A prototype knowledge management system for analyzing the architecture of brain networks in a systematic, interactive and extendable way that supports alternative interpretations and models, is based on fully referenced and annotated data and can interact with genomic and functional knowledge management systems through web services protocols.
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Fractal Dimension in Human Cerebellum Measured by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
TL;DR: Fractal dimension of human cerebellum (CB) was measured in magnetic resonance images of 24 healthy young subjects using the box-counting method and indicated that the CB skeleton is a highly fractal structure.
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Magnetic resonance imaging of mediodorsal, pulvinar, and centromedian nuclei of the thalamus in patients with schizophrenia.
Eileen Kemether,Monte S. Buchsbaum,William Byne,Erin A. Hazlett,M. Mehmet Haznedar,Adam M. Brickman,Jimcy Platholi,Rachel Bloom +7 more
TL;DR: Significantly smaller volumes of the MDN and PUL were found in patients with schizophrenia compared with controls, and the centromedian nucleus, important in attention and arousal, has not been previously studied with MRI.
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A soft body as a reservoir: case studies in a dynamic model of octopus-inspired soft robotic arm
Kohei Nakajima,Kohei Nakajima,Helmut Hauser,Rongjie Kang,Emanuele Guglielmino,Darwin G. Caldwell,Rolf Pfeifer +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the structure of the octopus arm cannot only be exploited for generating behavior but also, in a sense, as a computational resource and how the arm's dynamics can be exploited to approximate non-linear dynamical systems and embed non- linear limit cycles.
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Neuroinformatics for Genome-Wide 3-D Gene Expression Mapping in the Mouse Brain
Lydia Ng,Sayan Dev Pathak,Chihchau Kuan,Chris Lau,Hong-Wei Dong,Andrew Sodt,Chinh Dang,Brian B. Avants,Paul A. Yushkevich,James C. Gee,David R. Haynor,Ed S. Lein,Allan R. Jones,Michael Hawrylycz +13 more
TL;DR: A neuroinformatics pipeline for automatically mapping expression profiles of ISH data and its use to produce the first genomic scale 3-D mapping of gene expression in a mammalian brain, fully automated and adaptable to other organisms and tissues is described.
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