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Dana Press

Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2008
Arrangement is by title.

Cerebrum 2008; emerging ideas in brain science.

Ed. by Cynthia A. Read.
Dana Press, ©2008    221 p.    $14.95    QP363
978-1-932594-33-1

This collection of 13 articles and three book reviews, drawn from the Cerebrum website, covers a full range of current research, including that on what can go right. Topics include designing and building better nursing homes and facilities for the aging by partnering brain scientists and architects, using neuroimaging to find the links learning about prions to understand such conditions as mad cow disease, protecting the brain from glutamate, defeating cerebral malaria, balancing the risk and rewards of DNA technologies, medicating the bumps of everyday life, learning from injured brains, seeking free will, evaluating stress and disease, adapting after injury, learning in the basal ganglia, and the effects of Alzheimer's disease on everyday judgment. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)