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发表于2024-05-09
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The brain, that "cobbled-together mess," is the subject of this lively mix of solid science and fascinating case histories. Linden, a neuroscientist from Johns Hopkins University, offers "the Reader's Digest version" of how the brain functions, followed quickly by the "real biology," before tackling the big questions: Why are people religious? How do we form memories? What makes sleep so vital to mental health? Which is more important, nature or nurture? Linden tackles these problems head on, debunking myths (people do, in fact, use more than 10 percent of their brains) and offering interesting trivia (Einstein's brain was a bit on the small side) along the way. Anti-evolutionary arguments are answered in a chapter titled "The Unintelligent Design of the Brain," in which Linden proposes that it's the brain's "weird agglomeration of ad hoc solutions" that makes humans unique. The book's greatest strength is Linden's knack for demystifying biology and neuroscience with vivid similes (he calls the brain, weighing two percent of total body weight and using 20 percent of its energy, the "Hummer H2 of the body"). Though packed with textbook-ready data, the book grips readers like a masterful teacher; those with little science experience may be surprised to find themselves interested in-and even chuckling over-the migration of neurons along radial glia, and anxious to find out what happens next.
戴维·J·林登(David J.Linden)是美国约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院教授、神经科学家,对小脑突触可塑性有专门的研究。
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评分图书馆期限内只看了一半。。。还是挺幽默的,文字很口语化,读的时候可以想象出作者在眼前侃大山(不)的感觉。
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评分图书馆期限内只看了一半。。。还是挺幽默的,文字很口语化,读的时候可以想象出作者在眼前侃大山(不)的感觉。
评分一本非常有趣的神经生物学的书,有观点,有论据,有推理,有呼应。大三的时候要看这本书,兴许我现在在搞脑科学研究也说不准。
好多地方的翻译难以看懂,甚至有些地方说反了: “相反地,一些行为特征并不怎么受到环境的影响:饮食习惯非常依赖于早期早期经验(包括啮齿类和人类)……”,原文是“In contrast, other behavioral traits do not appear to be strongly influenced by genes:”,原文是gene...
评分这是个大科学家写的面向公众的科普书,可谓深入浅出,知识系统丰富,翻译准确生动,还阐明了很多公众对大脑的误解。除了一些离子通道,谷氨酸受体,REM睡眠之类的东西,大部分内容是有趣并且易懂的。 从书名就可以看出,作者是要反驳神创论和智能设计论的。证据绝对充分...
评分作者站在脑科学理论研究的前沿,用大家都能理解的语言叙述大脑的构成,作用。写的清晰,明了,专业人士沈颖教授翻译的也很流畅。值得对脑科学,神经科学、行为和认知感兴趣的人一读。
评分此刻,这本书放在我面前。纸张白色的背景下,黑色的字一行行结队排列着。书上说,在我的大脑中,有着上亿的神经元。这些神经元做梦也不会想到,它们在我脑中加班加点勤力集体劳动,所处理的正是关于它们自己的信息。这种感觉是如此的诡异,就如同一个法官签发了逮捕自己的命令...
评分作者站在脑科学理论研究的前沿,用大家都能理解的语言叙述大脑的构成,作用。写的清晰,明了,专业人士沈颖教授翻译的也很流畅。值得对脑科学,神经科学、行为和认知感兴趣的人一读。
The Accidental Mind pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024