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Mapping the Brain and Its Functions : Integrating Enabling Technologies into Neuroscience Research.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1991.
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| Colección: | Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mapping the Brain and its Functions
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Mapping the Brain and Its Functions
- Summary
- ADVANCING NEUROSCIENCE IN THE DECADE OF THE BRAIN
- Complexity Drives the Need for Information Management
- EXAMPLES OF THE VALUE OF INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
- Vision: How We See Affects How We Think
- Substance Abuse: The Search for the Biology of Self-destruction
- Pain: Sometimes a Warning, Sometimes a Curse
- Schizophrenia: Broken Minds, Shattered Dreams
- THE GROWTH OF NEUROSCIENCE
- Neuroscience Research Has Grown in Response to Critical ProblemsNeuroscience is a National Priority
- COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICAL AND NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
- BUILDING CONSENSUS, IDENTIFYING NEEDS
- THE BRAIN MAPPING INITIATIVE: COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- NOTE
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Advancing Neuroscience in the Decade of the Brain
- COMPLEXITY AND THE NEED FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- EXAMPLES OF THE VALUE OF INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
- Vision: How We See Affects How We Think
- Substance Abuse: The search for the Biology of Self-destructionPain: Sometimes a Warning, Sometimes a Curse
- Schizophrenia: Broken Minds, Shattered Dreams
- THE GROWTH OF NEUROSCIENCE
- Neuroscience Research Has Grown in Response to Critical Problems
- Neuroscience Has Grown in Response to New Technologies and an Expanded Understanding of Biology
- Neuroscience Research is a National Priority
- REFERENCES
- 3 Overview of Neuroscience Research: A Closer Look at the Neural Hierarchy
- Behavior and Emotion are Manifestations of Brain Activity
- The Systems of the Brain are Connected by Elaborate Pathways and Serve Many FunctionsNeurons Come in Many Shapes and Sizes, and Contain Different Chemicals
- Synapses and Microcircuits Filter Vast Numbers of Messages
- Messages Can Change Molecular States and Genetic Expression
- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 4 Computer and Information Technology in Biomedical and Neuroscience Research
- A Neuroscience Laboratory of the Future Will Use a Variety of Computer-based Tools
- CRITICAL BREAKTHROUGHS, IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITIES
- Computers and Computer Graphics Help Scientists Obtain New ImagesDatabase Technologies Help Organize our Knowledge
- Electronic Networks Greatly Increase Communication
- Some Electronic Collaboratory Groups are Forming Now
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- NOTES
- 5 Building Consensus, Identifying Needs
- BUILDING A USEFUL RESOURCE COMPLEX
- The Data that are Included Must be Useful to Neuroscientists
- Computerized Resources Must Include a Variety of Capabilities
- Different Types of Databases are Required
- THE CHALLENGES AHEAD