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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative memoir. he recalls his journey of self-discovery. He examines...
3) Replicas
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific experimentation, but a government task force out to stop him.
4) In silico
Publisher
[Collective Eye Films]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young filmmaker sets out to document a brilliant neuroscientist who has become frustrated with his field's status quo. With time elapsing and millions of dollars on the line, In Silico explores an audacious 10-year quest to simulate the entire human brain on supercomputers. Along the way, it reveals the profound beauty of tiny mistakes and bold predictions, a controversial space where scientific process meets ego, and where the lines between objectivity...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Awakening from a months-long coma speaking the Lord's Prayer in the original Aramaic, twenty-five-year-old Zack Kashian inadvertently triggers media and religious frenzies before he is hired by a secret neuroscience group that researches near-death experiences.
6) Caged
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington D.C. police stumble upon a gruesome murder scene involving a girl who was slowly starved to death while held captive in a cage. When the victim is identified as the daughter of a high profile senator, FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair is thrust into the spotlight. Now another girl has been taken and is teetering on the brink of death. Sayer races to save the second victim, but soon realizes that they are hunting a killer with a dangerous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that...
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"From childhood, Santiago was an artist, and he always would be. Discover how he also came to be known as the Father of Neuroscience in this story of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's life."--
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bus full of high school students has disappeared from Washington D.C. and FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair must hunt down the culprit who has a link to her own past. After grieving the death of her fiancé and almost losing her job, Agent Sayer Altair is finally starting to rebuild her life. Her research into the minds of psychopaths is breaking new ground and her strange little family is thriving. But Sayer's newfound happiness is threatened when...
10) Buried
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rooting him out and exposing internal corruption got her a bullet wound and six months of desk duty. Now, she's finally back in the field, called in when an off-duty FBI agent and his cadaver dog fall into a sinkhole filled with human bones. Found deep in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
"A graphic novel retelling of the inspiring true story of polymath Santiago Ramón y Cajal, visionary pioneer of modern neuroscience, and his early dreams of becoming an artist. As a young boy, all Santiago wanted to do was be an artist. But his father wanted him to become a doctor, insisting that pursuing art was not a true profession. Although Santiago was forbidden...
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