Jesus, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom. "Buddha's Brain" joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This book will explain how the core elements of both psychological well-being and religious or spiritual life - virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom - are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating, learning, and valuing.

Leading neuroscientist Dr. Masao Ito advances a detailed and fascinating view of what the cerebellum contributes to brain function. The cerebellum has been seen as primarily involved in coordination of body movement control, facilitating the learning of motor skills such as those involved in walking, riding a bicycle, or playing a piano. The cerebellum is now viewed as an assembly of numerous neuronal machine modules, each of which provides an implicit learning capability to various types of motor control. The cerebellum enables us to unconsciously learn motor skills through practice by forming internal models simulating control system properties of the body parts. Based on these remarkable advances in our understanding of motor control mechanisms of the cerebellum, Ito presents a still larger view of the cerebellum as serving a higher level of brain functions beyond movements, including the implicit part of the thought and cognitive processes that manipulate knowledge. Ito extends his investigation of the cerebellum to discuss neural processes that may be involved implicitly in such complex mental actions as having an intuition, imagination, hallucination, or delusion.

We recognize the artistry of Mona Lisa's elusive smile, but is there an underlying science? In this groundbreaking study, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explains how vision works. She tells us how great painters fool the brain: why Mona Lisa's smile seems so mysterious, Monet's "Poppy Field" appears to sway in the breeze, Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" blinks like the lights of Times Square, and Warhol's "Electric Chair" pulses with current. Drawing on history and her own cutting-edge discoveries, Livingstone offers intriguing insights, from explanations of common optical illusions to speculations on the correlation of learning disabilities with artistic skill.

《Duus神经系统疾病定位诊断学:解剖生理临床》(第8版)系统叙述了神经系统的解剖和功能以及神经系统综合症，主要阅读对象为学生(全书贯穿了教材的临床意义)和实习医师(扼要重述了神经解剖基础)。Peter Duus的著作《神经系统疾病定位诊断学》帮助一代又一代的医师完成了他们的职业培训。负责该版本的编写组在继承原著思想精粹的基础上，吸收了该领域的最新研究成果，对原著进行了全面的修改和更新。 　　最新内容，精辟易懂： 　　●系统划分章节，各章节以不同颜色标识，四色印刷。 　　●全书采用四色解剖绘图。 　　●新近病例，附加多幅cT和MRI图。 　　●新增独立章节叙述神经系统的基本要素以及脑血管解剖包括脑血管病。 　　由于脑血管病在神经病学中占有很高的份量，所以为《Duus神经系统疾病定位诊断学:解剖生理临床》(第8版)的重点。

本书从计算神经科学和神经计算科学的结合上，将理论、实验和计算三者联系起来讨论动态的脑和与神经计算相关的、正在出现的新结果和新概念，概括了单个神经元的计算模型、离子通道的计算性质、树突的计算功能、轴突上的混沌、脉冲放电定时编码、动态感受野、突触机制、突触动力学、突触修饰的时间不对称性、振荡/节律、动态神经细胞集群、动态绑定动力学、脑的复杂性、意识的脑机制等正在日益引起人们注意的脑科学问题。