outros livros da colecção, apresenta vários resumos das matérias mais importantes, Desta forma abre caminho para se pesquisar outros livros sobre o cérebro ou algum assunto mais específico dos abordados, A lot of information is crammed into this little book I learnt a lot, but very dry, I'd rather like to learn about less topics, but more in depth, Overall, quick and relatively good overview of the field for people who don't know much, This popular science book is a nice introduction to many neurological topics, Since every page contains a different topic it does not go very deep into these topics, but in the back of the book there is a list for continued reading.
Every topic is explained over one page and on the page next to it is an illustration that goes with the topic, Personally I really love these kind of bitesized chunks of information, but the illustrations did not really add anything to the book, They did not help to understand the topics better and they also weren't that pretty,
The book is divided into seven sections, each starting with a page that explains the meaning of some words, Also a couple of biographies of people that were important for the development of neuroscience are included in the book, The explanations of the words were clear, but in some cases I found them to be unnecessary, since the words also became clear by reading the explanations of the topics.
I thought the biographies were interesting, I wouldn't read a whole book on most of these people, but it was nice to get an idea of the people who really made a difference in de development of neurscience as a science.
Anil Seth collects a series of essays on the brain, There are fifty essays in the book, and all of them are short snippets of text, The book is easy to read,
Like all of the other books in this series, it takes input from experts on the subject and provides enough information to be helpful, It doesn't feel as though the contributors are talking down to the audience,
There isn't a lot to say about it, The book came out in, so some of the scientists covered have died since then, Oliver Sacks is one example,
Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time,second brain
Anil Seth
genrescience / neuroscience/ nonfiction
Prof Anil Seth is also the author of “being: a new science of consciousness”, he is the editor of this easy bite “second brain”.
Quite a basic grasp of brain concepts in the recent century with laymen terms and pictures to facilitate the delivery, A good book for overview of some brain concepts on surface level,
Some quite interesting theories like “mass action concept”, “neuronal Darwinism”theory of neuronal group selection TNGS, Bayesian brain theory , posterior superior temporal sulcus voxel based morphometry correlation with level of loneliness.
Enjoyed the read Yeh
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NovI have mixed feelings about this kind of book, Personally I dont get a lot out of reading them I would rather have a book that reads through with proper text but a lot of people do like this kind of bitesized format, with two page articles, the left a couple of hundred words of text and the right an image to support the text.
Frankly, some work a lot better than others, and for some reason,Second Brain is one of the better ones in the series, Perhaps because there isnt a lot of mathematical depth to the subject, the short essays did build up a rather nice picture of our knowledge of the workings of the brain.
I was rather unnerved to see the discredited Freud mentioned, but it was only a passing reference, and wasnt really supporting one of his topofthehead literally theories,
There are an awful lot of good popular science books out there on the brain, and I would regard this as a smorgasbord taster an opportunity to sample some of the delights, but being aware that, for instance, if you wanted to know more about the impact of brain training, you should pick up a copy of Smarter.
Overall, a sound and informative addition to the series, Not perfect, but more of a fringe read,
dont get me wrong i liked the book and the aproach on how to deliver the content, because this allowed me to read it quite easily during my commutes.
are you curious about the brain and want to have content delivered to you pill sized,
this is the book for you Lo que necesitaba para empezar a entender el tema de la neurociencia.
Es un libro bello, bellas ilustraciones, Con muchos tips de los cuales se puede partir buscando más información,
No es un texto para hacer papers o cosas así, pero es muy útil, in progress:
Content:
So this book was published inand says Glial Cells outnumber neurons:, That was challenged already inby neurophysiologist Suzana HerculanoHouzel, and pretty much the consensus bywas that Glial cells and neurons are:,
Well this is awkward, This book is not up to date, and was not even up to date at the time it was published, This unfortunately made me take everything else with a grain of salt, I will fact check more of the content before I finish this review,
Style:
The beginning of each chapter has a glossary which is explains some of the terms coming up ahead, I found this really unnecessary considering how short eachsecond blurb is, If you read through the glossary before reading the chapter, you already getof the meat of the coming chapter, It ends up being repetitive to read the blurb which is almost the same but slightly longer than the glossary definition on the same topics,
Why not just have the glossary in the back of the book, so if a reader wants to reference something they can
I find the format overall to be kind of neither here nor there.
It was such a surface look at the topic that I already knew a lot of it and didn't find it mind blowing, The blurbs about the scientists give a timeline of their lives, which seems off topic and frankly I wasn't that interested, It's like this book isn't sure if it's a book about science or about the biography of scientists,
Short and simple book with beautiful illustrations, Cool concept. But poorly executed.
Even though I loved "learning" about few concepts related to brain's inner workings, the information is not well organized, it's like reading a dictionary, since one is not being able to make connections between two adjacent concepts, they won't be able to remember it for more than a minute! I liked this book far more than I had anticipated, perhaps because I was a bit misled by the title.
“Mindblowing ideas in neuroscience” prepared me for a bit more hyperbole, embellished speculations, and Neil deGrasse Tysonesque comparisons along the lines of “There are enough axons in your brain to connect the dots of in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Happily, this bit of the title is far from representative of the thorough information provided throughout the book, information of both a historical and scientific nature, and very little of which goes for the shock and awe factor that one would expect when it comes to mindblowing ideas.
Instead, the chapters were conveniently divided into sections focused on brain structure, function, cognition, consciousness, and much more, all the while delivering the material in a didactic yet digestible format.
The one section I intuitively disagreed with was Seths section on the hard problem of consciousness, namely that he thinks the analogy of sciences debate around vitalism and the origins of life is akin to the issue we face whilst studying consciousness today.
Optimism is indeed our best bet to continue progress on the easy problems, but I just dont think the hard problem is surmountable without changing some of our fundamental assumptions to bridge the categorical disjunction we face.
However, I wasnt surprised to see his view laid out here, as his TedTalk and conversations with podcasters usually discuss it in the same manner, Granted, this is just my amateur theory of mind opinion on the topic, and said section is merely one ofgreat passages in the book, passages for which all eight contributing authors did a fantastic job explaining.
This book can be read from start to finish, or easily referenced per topic depending on the section of interest, A great book for anyone looking to get an overview of neuroscience, and a mandatory read for those who study/take the topic seriously in their everyday lives!
Also, there was at least one mindblowing fact that warrants mention.
Schizophrenic people can tickle themselves! A good overview of the major concepts in neuroscience,
Also introduces the key people in this field,
Use the information in this book to determine what you want to learn more of, Intéressant ! La méditation est évoquée pour signaler que "la méditation a un effet profond sur le cerveau, apaise les émotions, stimule la cognition et peut aider à traiter une série de maladies mentales".
Resumido, prático e intuitivo, Uma boa forma de rever conceitos com exemplos concretos, A fun little book I bought long before residency and never really looked at, . . decided to pick it up this weekend for some light reading, Its a great jumping off point for anyone interested in the brain, Gave me a few ideas for future books to read and people to read about, I enjoyed the short biographies of some of historys greatest neuroscientists, A good, quick point of reference for bio and psych students and an interesting read for everyone else! You can learn a little about a lot, or use the book as a reminder of basic points in neuroscience and neuropsychology.
A good book feed your curiosity about how the brain works, Easy to read, it's not writen in an academic way, Fun to read! Meine erste Buch auf Deutsch, Ich mag es sehr und finde das sehr intrassant BRAINS ARE THE COOLEST THINGS IN THE WORLD AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE
Apart from that the book was super cool and really interesting.
Good overview of neuroscience in general I learnt a lot,/Stars.
Full RTC A very nice high level tourdeforce which leaves the reader equipped with a stimulating list of names and books for closer study, Special attention is paid to a few perhaps unexpected topics which are popular with the Sackler Centre authors, which makes for a less orthodox, more interesting overview, I found the book really interesting, It does not dive deep into the topics but does good work explaining concepts on the surface level, This book is a quick fact summary of cognitive neuroscience, If you are fresh to neuroscience, it would take some googling to fully appreciate each section, I loved the format of this book, The summary parts were really good, I appreciated the acknowledgement of denial faced by Rosalind Franklin for her contributions, Some facts like tickling and schizophrenia, role of cerebellum in self initiated actions can be extended to test out some concepts in consciousness studies,
The book also touch upon Libet's discomforts with the way his experiment was interpreted the so called freewill experiment,
A quick read and useful for an introductory teaching session to interns and trainees, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex,
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