Think Tank
Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

This thinking definitely tanked. A bit interesting-ish... But just a bit. A lot of provocative headliners that are mostly misnomers. Like this one: 'Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways'. So, should we stop living or what? And this one: ' The Eye Knows What Is Good f......more

An interesting and well researched, diverse collection of essays about one of the most fascinating parts of the human body, the brain. The premise of the book is that a group of scientists were each asked to contribute an essay about an aspect of the brain that fascinated them, and when collated , t......more

Niezwykle ciekawe tematy, choć podane w mało atrakcyjny sposób. Forma esejów w większości przypadków nie porywa. Napisane bardzo syntetycznie, sucho, aczkolwiek wiedza zawarta w tekstach jest bardzo cenna.......more

'More often, what I was taught in those early days was not dead wrong but rather half right. In 1978, I was told by well-meaning professors that a neurotransmitter was released from nerve terminals when an electrical spike invaded, thereby opening voltage-sensitive calcium channels, allowing Ca ions......more

Think Tank is like taking a coach tour of a vast continent on which you get a taster of many different and fascinating places so that at a later date, with the descriptions from the brochures which have been made available, you have a way of exploring a particular area of interest in your own time o......more