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Galvani's Spark

Author : Alan McComas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199395950
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Galvani's Spark written by Alan McComas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galvani's Spark chronicles the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse which is the basis of all thoughts, sensations and actions. The story begins with Luigi Galvani's chance observation of a spark from a friction machine causing a frog's leg to twitch from across the room. The accurate recording and the understanding of the properties of the nerve fiber membrane that makes the impulse possible became the objectives of neuroscientists for over 200 years. The author, Alan J. McComas finely interweaves the stories, the challenges, and the controversies of the most prominent figures in neuroscience, from the histological descriptions of nerve cells by Cajal to the discovery of a three-dimensional structure of ion channels in cell membranes by MacKinnon. Along the way he details the first recordings of the impulse with a cathode ray oscilloscope by Gasser and Erlanger, Adrian's discovery that stimulus intensity is coded by the frequency of nerve impulses, and Hodgkin and Huxley's brilliant voltage clamp experiments, amongst many others. The recognition by Galvani that muscles and nerves have an electrical component triggered the field of neurophysiology and in turn has produced some of the greatest discoveries in neuroscience. 16 investigators of the nerve impulse went on to win or share Nobel prizes and this book not only emphasizes their work but also traces their brilliant careers. For anyone interested in the nervous system and the history of neuroscience, Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse is essential reading.

Galvani's Spark

Author : Alan McComas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199751757
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Galvani's Spark

Author : Alan J. McComas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199897094
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Galvani's Spark written by Alan J. McComas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse. Proceeding from a chance observation on a frog leg, to studies on squid giant axons and bacteria, this book concludes with the increasing realization that ion channells are responsible for a variety of clinical disorders.--[Source inconnue].

Spark from the Deep

Author : William J. Turkel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140981X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Spark from the Deep written by William J. Turkel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.

The Complete Works of Count TolstY Volume Xii

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count TolstY Volume Xii written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Turtle asked an Eagle to teach her how to fly. The Eagle advised her not to try, as she was not fit for it; but she insisted. The Eagle took her in his claws, raised her up, and dropped her: she fell on stones and broke to pieces.

Works

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
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Download or read book Works written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Fables for children. Stories for children. Natural science stories. Popular education. Decembrists. Moral tales

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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Fables for children; Stories for children; Natural science stories; Popular education; Decembrist; Moral tales

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Fables for children; Stories for children; Natural science stories; Popular education; Decembrist; Moral tales written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cultural History of Physics

Author : Karoly Simonyi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439865116
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Physics written by Karoly Simonyi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture,

Electricity

Author : Patrice Sherman
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502627728
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Electricity written by Patrice Sherman and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over time, Benjamin Franklins kite and key experiment has taken on mythic proportions. Franklins experiment established the relationship between lightning and electricity, but it would take the research of Alessandro Volta to discover how humans can generate electrical currents without relying on weather systems. Electricity establishes the history of a scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way people live their lives. Tracing the line of inquiry from the ancient Greeks understanding of static electricity, to Edisons light bulb, to Teslas work in bringing electricity to the masses, the book provides biographies of key figures, explanations of the science behind electricity, and an examination of how electricity is used in contemporary research and innovations.

Neurolinguistics Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Author : Charles P. Bouton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461595703
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Neurolinguistics Historical and Theoretical Perspectives by : Charles P. Bouton

Download or read book Neurolinguistics Historical and Theoretical Perspectives written by Charles P. Bouton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the relationship between the human body and language seems to be the inevitable result of any reflexion by man on his particular condi tion. This has held true since the earliest records in written tradition. It may be an excessively ambitious undertaking to try to catalogue the themes in that reflexion and reconstruct its successive stages within the confines of a book of fairly modest proportions such as this one; but the challenge has been stimulating enough to call for a response. The long research work that preceded the writing of this book and the large collection of source material accumulated over a period of several years at least afford the writer the satisfaction of appreciating more than anyone else the care for accuracy and completeness that went into the gradual reduction of this text to manageable proportions. Moreover, it is hoped to make available to all those interested at a later date the rich and rare corpus of documents that forms the basis of this book, in an anthology of selected readings. It was originally intended to publish these documents in a companion volume to this book.

Brain Electricity

Author : Robert W. Baloh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031629949
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Brain Electricity written by Robert W. Baloh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Well-grounded

Author : Kelly Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207301
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Well-grounded written by Kelly Lambert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neuroscientist reveals unique aspects of decision-making and the best strategies for protecting and enhancing the brain's ability to navigate life's uncertainties Contingency calculations--the ability to predict the outcomes of decisions and actions--are critical for survival and success. Our amazing brains continually process past and current experiences to enable us to make the most adaptive choices. But when the brain's information systems are compromised--by such varying conditions as drug addiction, poverty, mental illness, or even privilege--we can lose the ability to arrive at informed decisions. In this engaging book, behavioral neuroscientist Kelly Lambert explores a variety of the modern factors that can lead to warped neural processing, or distorted realities she terms "brain bubbles." Individuals who define success in terms of creature comforts and immediate gratification, for instance, may interact less with the physical and social world and thereby dull their ability to imagine varied contingency scenarios. The author underscores how continuous, meaningful, and well-grounded experiences are required if we are to make the best decisions throughout our lives.

Shocking Frogs

Author : Marco Piccolino
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199782164
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Shocking Frogs written by Marco Piccolino and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's eyes." With these words, Luigi Galvani announced to the world in 1791 his discovery that nervous conduction and muscle excitation are electrical phenomena. The result of more than years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta. In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes. So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these monumental figures.

Music, Math, and Mind

Author : David Sulzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550502
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Music, Math, and Mind written by David Sulzer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a clarinet play at lower pitches than a flute? What does it mean for sounds to be in or out of tune? How are emotions carried by music? Do other animals perceive sound like we do? How might a musician use math to come up with new ideas? This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music in a way that readers without scientific background can follow. David Sulzer, also known in the musical world as Dave Soldier, explains why the perception of music encompasses the physics of sound, the functions of the ear and deep-brain auditory pathways, and the physiology of emotion. He delves into topics such as the math by which musical scales, rhythms, tuning, and harmonies are derived, from the days of Pythagoras to technological manipulation of sound waves. Sulzer ranges from styles from around the world to canonical composers to hip-hop, the history of experimental music, and animal sound by songbirds, cetaceans, bats, and insects. He makes accessible a vast range of material, helping readers discover the universal principles behind the music they find meaningful. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

Energy and Society

Author : Harold H. Schobert
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482219255
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Society written by Harold H. Schobert and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy and Society: An Introduction, Second Edition provides readers with a detailed introduction to energy sources and energy utilization. This book presents an overview of alternative energy issues and technologies, discusses the pros and cons of various energy sources, and explores their impacts on society and the environment.What's New in the S