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Discusses how scientists in such laboratories as Woods Hole, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton have studied the brain to discover how this complex organ learns and remembers
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When today's neuroscientists turn from their lab work to discuss distinctions between such terms as "brain" and "mind," they betray how mysterious, subtle and indeterminate is their study of the human brain. Allport, herself one of the "explorers of the black box" (she has worked at the Massachusetts Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab), makes clear the reasons why there is such excitement in this new field. Psychiatry has gone just so far, while the Pavlovian behaviorism of the past century, itself at an impasse, has given way to an experimental science using astonishing techniques. Allport's history of the study of the brain, from the time of the first Golgi stain (of a slice of tissue) through Adrian's discovery of brain "spikes" in 1925 to Eric Kandel's experiments on the sea-snail Alypsia (beginning at Woods Hole in the 1960s), makes wondrous if challenging reading. Students and serious readers will study Allport profitably.
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A freelance journalist's provocative report on research on the cellular basis of learning memory. Using microelectrodes to "talk" with the cells of simple experimental animals, scientists have concluded that learning involves chemical changes in the junctions between cells or within cell membranes. Allport's discussion of complex biochemical mechanisms will be demanding reading for the nonscientist. Even casual readers, however, will be engrossed by her revealing portraits of two highly competitive neurobiologists. According to Allport, personalities and politics mightily influence who gets funded, who gets published, and who gets the ultimate recognition. Her description of the climate surrounding scientific research will be controversial. Laurie Bartolini, formerly with Lincoln Lib., Springfield, Ill.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0393023222
- ISBN 13 9780393023220
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