It is widely recognized that the neural basis of brain function can be fully understood only by integrating many disciplines at many levels. Studies os synaptic organization are bringing about a quiet revolution in achieving this goal, as documented by this unique book over the past 30 years. In this fifth edition, the results of the mouse and human genome projects are incorporated for the first time. Molecular biologists interested in functional genomics and proteomics of the brain will find answers here to the critical questions: what are the cell and circuit functions of gene products? Also for the first time, the reader is oriented to supporting neuroscience databases. Among the new advances covered are 2-photon confocal laser microscopy of dendrites and dendritic spines, biochemical analyses, and dual patch and multielectrode recordings, applied together with an increasing range of behavioural and gene-targeting methods. Leading experts in the best understood brain regions bring together the molecular, anatomical, functional, and behavioural data in authoritative integrated accounts.The chapters are organized in the same format, covering the neural elements, synaptic connections, basic circuits, physiology, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, membrane properties, dendritic properties, and with a final section on how the circuits mediate specific behaviours. The uniform framework for each chapter enables the authors to higlight the principles that are common to all regions, as well as the adaptations unique to each, thus serving as a model for understanding the neural basis of behaviour.

A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting. -- The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch , brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most popular method for imaging brain function. Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the methods used for fMRI data analysis. Using minimal jargon, this book explains the concepts behind processing fMRI data, focusing on the techniques that are most commonly used in the field. This book provides background about the methods employed by common data analysis packages including FSL, SPM and AFNI. Some of the newest cutting-edge techniques, including pattern classification analysis, connectivity modeling and resting state network analysis, are also discussed. Readers of this book, whether newcomers to the field or experienced researchers, will obtain a deep and effective knowledge of how to employ fMRI analysis to ask scientific questions and become more sophisticated users of fMRI analysis software.

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades; the cinema; bestsellers and their readers; photography; dance; hotel lobbies; Kafka; the Bible; and boredom. For Kracauer, the most revelatory facets of modern life in the West lie on the surface, in the ephemeral and the marginal. Of special fascination to him is the United States, where he eventually settled after fleeing Germany and whose culture he sees as defined almost exclusively by "the ostentatious display of surface". With these essays, written in the 1920s and early 1930s and edited by the author in 1963, Kracauer was the first to demonstrate that studying the everyday world of the masses can bring great rewards. This work remains a tribute to popular culture and its interdisciplinary essays continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and the exigencies of intellectual exile. In his introduction, Thomas Levin situates Kracauer in a turbulent age, illuminates the forces that influenced him - including his friendships with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and other Weimar intellectuals - and provides the context necessary for understanding his ideas.

《最了不起的失败:工薪族田中耕一的诺贝尔奖之路》内容简介：2002年的诺贝尔化学奖让整个世界震惊。面对获奖者“田中耕一”的名字，众学术泰斗、往届诺奖得主都不知道此是何许人也。这种诺奖获得者在学术界“查无此人”的情况恐怕只此一例了，然而让你大跌眼镜的事情还有更多：本科学历，一个普通工程师，与学术界没有任何交往，从不参加升职考试，因一次实验的“常识性错误”而最终获奖……面对媒体的狂轰滥炸和围追堵截，低调、羞涩、不善言谈的他更得到了民众疯狂的追捧和喜爱，被称为“工薪族的榜样”。这位从平民中走出来的诺贝尔奖获得者在推掉几乎所有的采访和演讲邀请后，道出了自己的心声：我只想做一辈子工程师。
平凡中孕育着伟大。希望读过这本书的人都能找到自己一生为之努力的方向和动力。

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全书分两部分讨论意大利文艺复兴时期艺术，第一部分为作品研究，分别介绍、赏析文艺复兴盛期大师们和这些大师前辈们的作品；第二部分为理论研究，描述了文艺复兴古典风格所具有的审美理想、审美观念和绘画形式的特征。
沃尔夫林研究艺术的方法的特点在于技术、理性和情感的完美结合，字里行间充满灵感的火花。他的语言极具洞察力，从形式上解释意大利文艺复兴盛期的绘画与雕塑，而基本不涉及题材的意义或决定创作过程的其他因素。其风格分析把文化史和心理学糅合到创作过程中，自成一套完善的审美体系。这种形式理论极大地影响了艺术批评的发展。

要把握人与社会、人生与历史、自我与世界之间的相互作用，必须有特定的心智品质，而他们并不具备这样的品质。他们没有能力以特别的方式应对自己的私人困扰，以控制通常隐伏其后的那些结构转型。 他们所需要的，以及他们感到他们所需要的，是一种特定的心智品质，能够有助于他们运用信息，发展理性，以求清晰地概括出周边世界正在发生什么，他们自己又会遭遇到什么。我的主张是，从记者到学者，从艺术家到公众，从科学家到编辑，都越来越期待具备这种心智品质，不妨称之为社会学的想象力。

《中国社会科学院老学者文库：汉语语调实验研究》主要内容包括：普通话声调的声学表现、音高显示器的普通话声调声学分析、用《普通话水平测试实施纲要》单音节词的声调声学分析、普通话声调征兆的感知实验、实验方法、实验结果、实验结论等。