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Neuroscience

Ian McEwan’s Saturday

March 20, 2006

Ian McEwan’s Saturday This novel examines one day in the life of Henry Perowne, a prominent and successful London neurosurgeon. While driving his new Mercedes, Perowne collides with Baxter, a street thug and victim of Huntington’s chorea, whose condition makes him dangerously unpredictable: violent and sensitive by turns. Perowne can’t help diagnosing Baxter, even while [...]

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Want An Electrode In Your Brain?

February 15, 2006

Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent the last twenty years studying how neurons encode information and how they use it to make decisions about the world. But Newsome is obsessed with a lingering question: How does consciousness arise from brain function? He feels the best way to answer [...]

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The Neuroscience of Lie Detection

February 6, 2006

Neuroscience and brain imaging continue to appear almost daily in the mainstream press. Lately, the focus is on lie detection and other forensic applications for functional brain imaging. See, for example, Don’t Even Think About Lying in the January 2006 issue of Wired Magazine and Looking For The Lie in the New York Times Magazine [...]

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Brain Storm

May 9, 1998

A Novel by Richard Dooling Read Chapter One of Brain Storm New York Times Notable Book of 1998 Amazon Hot 100 Bestseller Review Excerpts “Dooling’s new book is a brilliant concoction, flashing with comedic and intellectual energy . . . . an inspired piece of work, a caustically funny, antic diatribe with a tightly woven [...]

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