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Cerebrum 2008: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science

Published Mar 27, 2008

Your Brain on Cubs

Published Mar 14, 2008

Edited by Dan Gordon

Your Brain on Cubs takes sports fans and those intrigued with new discoveries in brain science on a fascinating exploration of the brain’s role in one of America’s favorite pastimes. In Your Brain on Cubs, neuroscientists and science writers explore how the brain relates to questions such as: What makes fans loyal? What is involved in seeing the ball, deciding ball or strike, making a decision to swing? What allows us to believe in a “curse”? What is responsible for our feelings of joy in victory and agony in defeat?

The Neuroscience of Fair Play

Published Dec 03, 2007

by Donald W. Pfaff

Donald Pfaff, Ph.D., head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, gives us the first book to describe how ethics may be a hardwired function of the human brain. Writing with the popular science journalist, Luba Vikhanski, Pfaff explains how specific brain circuits cause us to consider an action toward another as if it were going to happen to us, prompting us to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves.

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science

Published Aug 01, 2007

Foreward by Walter Glannon, Ph.D.

The fifth volume in The Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics, this collection marks the five-year anniversary of the first meeting in the field of neuroethics, providing readers with the seminal writings on past, present, and future ethical issues facing neuroscience and society.

Best of the Brain from Scientific American

Published Jul 16, 2007

by Floyd E. Bloom

Top neuroscientist Floyd E. Bloom has selected the most fascinating brain-related articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind since 1999 in this collection. Divided into three sections—Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow’s Brain—this compilation takes you to the latest information from the front lines of brain research.

Cerebrum 2007: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science

Published May 21, 2007

Prominent scientists and other thinkers explain, applaud, and protest new ideas arising from discoveries about the brain in this first yearly anthology from Cerebrum’s Web journal for inquisitive general readers.

Special Publications

The 2008 Progress Report on Brain Research

Featuring top findings in brain research affecting areas such as disorders of development, aging, and movement, as well as mental and thought disorders.

Advances in Brain Research 2008

Interviews with Mark F. Bear, Ph.D., Xandra O. Breakefield, Ph.D., Mark R. Cookson, Ph.D., Stephen Hauser, M.D., Claudia H. Kawas, M.D., Anthony E. Lang, M.D., John H. Morrison, Ph.D, and Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

The Dana Sourcebook of Brain Science

A basic introduction to brain science, its history, our current understanding of the brain, new developments, and future directions. Available online in PDF format.

The Dana Sourcebook of Immunology

This resource for secondary and post-secondary teachers and students offers an overview of the many advances researchers are making in the study of our immune system. Request a free set for the classroom or view the entire textbook and its accompanying workbook online.

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In this second annual anthology, top scientists and scholars interpret the latest discoveries about the human brain and confront their implications for fields from architecture to ethics, music to health care policy. Among the provocative topics are whether free will is an illusion, the risks and rewards of new drugs based on living cells, why remember our past is essential to envisioning the future, how brain science can inform design of better facilities for people with Alzheimer's disease, and when using drugs to smooth the daily bumps of our emotional lives might be an ethical choice.

In his foreword, science writer Carl Zimmer says that news about the human brain tends to trigger cyclones of chatter, but we often don't know what to make of the sheer mass of data. The provocative articles in Cerebrum 2008, however, offer a guide to ordering one's understanding of the brain.

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