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Forever plastic
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 19x24cm
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9788859036319
Publication date: 01/05/2024
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Every day we experience how the mind works. Our behaviors, emotions, language, and interactions with other people are all influenced by how our brain works. Play with your brain – Forever plastic retraces the adventure of the mind and its forms, explaining how some cognitive functions actually work through a series of analyses, debates, experiments and anecdotes, but also games and activities. To what extent can a brain regenerate itself? How does memory work? Can I improve my plasticity and my performance? By retracing the adventure of the mind in all its forms and in all phases of life (in conditions of typical development or neurodivergence, health or disease), the book makes neuroscience interesting, engaging, and above all within reach of everyone.
Forever plastic
The Erickson series created in collaboration with researchers from CIMEC, the Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento, which takes up the challenge of making neuroscience simple, engaging and accessible to all, explains how the molecular and cellular mechanisms of our brain allow us to adapt to an ever-changing world.
1. From the immutable brain to the plastic brain
● The mystery of plasticity
● So weak, so strong
● Everything dies, nothing regenerates... or does it?
● Hebb's rule
● The lazy eye
● The hippocampus of London taxi drivers
● DEBATE: Golgi and Cajal, a Nobel Prize-worthy story
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
2. Changing small: neurons and plasticity
● The synapse, this unknown entity…
● The cellular basis of memory
● Cellular and molecular basis of learning
● Form and substance
● Not just synapses... also new neurons!
● DEBATE: Eric Kandel: “Without memory we are nothing”
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
3.Changing big: childhood plasticity
● The exceptional adventure of learning language
● The development of visual function
● Of Mice and Men
● Critical periods, for better or for worse
● Has evolution put us in danger?
● DEBATE: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the discovery of neurotrophins
● SPECIES LEAP: The visual system in rodents and primates
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
4.If the synapses get sick
● A new way of thinking about brain disorders
● Neurodevelopmental disorders
● Alzheimer's disease
● Psychiatric disorders
● DEBATE: Dear, I've lost my mind
● SPECIES SKIP: How are synaptopathies studied in humans and rodents?
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
5. How to improve plasticity
● Pharmacology
● Standard environment
● Enriched environment
● Physical exercise and neuroplasticity
● An eye on the future
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
6. Only by changing we can stay in balance
● I'm looking for a permanent center of gravity (but not)
● Understanding to understand each other
● Rewriting the rules of normality
● A JUMP INTO THE LABORATORY: How is acoustic preference measured in rodents?
● CHALLENGE YOURSELF
Solutions
Bibliographical references
Play with your brain!, the editorial series that takes up the challenge of making neuroscience simple, engaging and within everyone's reach, a topic that has gained particularly broad and heterogeneous diffusion and interest in recent years.
Every day we experience how the mind works: our behaviors, emotions, language, and interactions with other people are all actions influenced by how our brain works. Despite its complexity and apparent hostility, the topic has finally left university classrooms and specialist conferences, reaching a curious, passionate and transversal audience, including publishers and various media.
Born in collaboration with researchers from CIMeC, the Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento, the new Erickson series Play your brain! talks about neuroscience in an easy way, for those who are not experts or are not familiar with the more specialized vocabulary.
THE VOLUMES IN THE SERIES
Play with your brain! Forever plastic
YURI BOZZI, GABRIELE CHELINI
Play with your brain! Forever plastic tells the infinite adventure of the mind in all its forms, revealing the secrets of what happens to the brain in the different phases of life.
How does memory work? To what extent can a brain regenerate itself? Through a series of analyses, debates, experiments and anecdotes, but also games and activities, this book (which is also a workbook) explains how some cognitive functions actually work, providing advice on how to improve them and always keep them in shape.Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
Play with your brain! Listening to Deafness
FRANCESCO PAVANI
Did you know that we hear with our ears but listen with our brains? And that white cats with blue eyes are deaf from birth? That there are languages without sound and that the ear cells that enable us to hear are exactly our age and do not regenerate?
Through analysis, debates, experiments and anecdotes – but also games and activities – we learn about the infinite adventure of listening in all its forms, because deafness is described here by going beyond the mere description of how the ear works. This volume of the Play With Your Brain! series takes us into the world of neuroprosthetics and the multisensory perspective to help us discover how they have changed the way we think about hearing.
Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHORS
Yuri Bozzi, professor of Physiology at the University of Trento. He is director of CIMeC – Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento.
Gabriele Chelini, research fellow at CIMec – Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento.
Francesco Pavani, Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Trento and Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Mind/Brain Center – CIMEC.
