The Great Brain Debate (eBook)

Nature or Nurture?

John E. Dowling (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF | EPUB

2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400841387 (ISBN)

Infos

John E. Dowling is the Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. He has received numerous awards, including the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.

---

Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that environment and genes each play. How we raise and educate our children, how we treat various mental diseases or conditions, how we care for our elderly--these are just some of the issues that can be informed by a better understanding of brain development. In The Great Brain Debate, the eminent neuroscience researcher John Dowling looks at these and other important issues. The work that is being done on the connection between the brain and vision, as well as the ways in which our brains help us learn new languages, are particularly revealing. From this groundbreaking new research, Dowling explains startling new insights into how the brain functions and how it can (or cannot) be molded and changed. By studying the brain across the spectrum of our lives, from infancy through adulthood and into old age, Dowling shows the ways in which both nature and nurture play key roles over the course of a human lifetime.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 45 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Karten / Stadtpläne / Atlanten
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Activation • Alzheimer's disease • Amino acid • axon • Axon terminal • Behavior • biochemistry • Biology • brain • brain damage • Broca's area • cell death • cell growth • Cell Migration • cerebellum • cerebral cortex • chemical synapse • Cortisol • Critical period • dementia • Dendrite • Disease • Drosophila melanogaster • Elaboration • Embryo • Enzyme • Fetus • forebrain • frontal lobe • functional magnetic resonance imaging • Ganglion cell • gene expression • Glucocorticoid • Granule cell • Growth cone • Growth factor • Hindbrain • hippocampus • Human Brain • Huntington's disease • Infant • Kinase • Language acquisition • Lateral geniculate nucleus • Longevity • long-term potentiation • magnetoencephalography • Mammal • midbrain • Molecule • Myelin • nervous system • neural crest • Neural development • Neural plate • neural tube • Neurodegeneration • Neurogenesis • Neuroglia • Neurological disorder • Neuromodulation • Neuromuscular junction • Neuron • Neuroscience • neuroscientist • Neurotransmission • NMDA Receptor • Ocular dominance column • Optic nerve • organism • Parkinson's Disease • Penetrance • phosphorylation • Photoreceptor cell • Precursor cell • Progenitor cell • Protein • Radial glial cell • Receptive field • Receptor (biochemistry) • retina • Retinal ganglion cell • Retinitis pigmentosa • Rhodopsin • Schizophrenia • Scientist • spinal cord • Stem Cell • Stimulation • Stimulus (physiology) • Symptom • Testosterone • Thalamus • Transcription factor • Trinucleotide repeat disorder • Twin • Vertebrate • Visual cortex • Visual Field • vocal learning
• ISBN-13: 9781400841387 / 9781400841387