El cerebro y el mito del yo
El cerebro y el mito del yo

Author: Rodolfo R. Llinás

Publisher: El Peregrino Ediciones, eLibros Editorial

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9588911346

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El papel de las neuronas en el pensamiento y el comportamiento humanos. Durante muchos años, tras su publicación en español en 2003, «El cerebro y el mito del yo» se convirtió en un libro de referencia para todos aquellos que se preguntan por las relaciones entre la conciencia y la actividad cerebral. Tanto legos como expertos buscaban insistentemente un libro que dejó de publicarse a pesar de su vital importancia para la reflexión y el conocimiento científico. Quince años después de haber sido publicado por primera vez en inglés, El Peregrino Ediciones presenta, con emoción, una edición revisada y aumentada por el doctor Llinás con la esperanza de que su legado y sus estimulantes ideas contribuyan a un país más creativo y diverso. Coedición digital El Peregrino Ediciones, eLibros Editorial

The Human Brain
The Human Brain

Author: Miguel Marín-Padilla

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 3642147240

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This book is unique among the current literature in that it systematically documents the prenatal structural development of the human brain. It is based on lifelong study using essentially a single staining procedure, the classic rapid Golgi procedure, which ensures an unusual and desirable uniformity in the observations. The book is amply illustrated with 81 large, high-quality color photomicrographs never previously reproduced. These photomicrographs, obtained at 6, 7, 11, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 weeks of gestation, offer a fascinating insight into the sequential prenatal development of neurons, blood vessels, and glia in the human brain.

Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens

Author: Antonio Vélez Montoya

Publisher: eLibros Editorial

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 919

ISBN-13: 9588732727

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The themes discussed in this book, translated to English by Australian Kieran Tapsell, form part of a revolutionary discipline known under the name of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that has become the most powerful tool discovered to date for man to understand himself. Much of the knowledge revealed by human science is explained as a result of the evolutionary process, using as a premise the theory that the majority of modern man’s desires, impulses, interests and inclinations, and mental faculties were designed by the evolutionary process of the species. This new focus allows us to synthesize a group of already established findings, coming from such diverse disciplines as genetics, evolution, ethology, anthropology, psychology, neurology and epistemology. In this way, it is possible to explain an important part of complex human behavior under one sole, unifying principle: the direct or indirect search for a greater reproductive efficacy. With this work, easily readable by the general public, the author completes a cycle of subjects that he had begun with From the Big Bang to Homo Sapiens (2004), a book published in Spanish by Villegas Editores.

Historical-Cultural Theory
Historical-Cultural Theory

Author: Guido Benvenuto

Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 8893771969

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The Proceedings of the International Conference on “Historical-Cultural Theory: studies and research” are published in this volume. The event, supported by a grant from the Sapienza, University of Rome, took place at the Rectorat, Aula Organi Collegiali, on February the 25th, 2020, on organization by G. Benvenuto and M.S. Veggetti. The invited speakers are among the most representative scholars and interpreters of Vygotskian thought at the national and international level. They are representative of different prestigious universities: Moscow State University for Psychology and Education; University of Sevilla, Spain; La Habana, Cuba; University of Florence, Italy; Sapienza, University of Rome; University of Arcavacata di Rende (CS), followers of the Historical-cultural trend in Psychology and/or the Activity Theory Approach - by L.S.Vygotskij, A.R. Lurija, A.N.Leont’ev, V.V.Davydov, V.V.Rubtzov. They are actually involved in research expanding a multicultural approach to psycho-pedagogical development and learning. Main purpose: revisit the Historical-cultural and Activity Approaches to face the XXI century’s new educational and instructional needs. Consequently, the issues present further developments of the psycho-pedagogical approaches in different countries in the frame of internationalization and joint cooperation.

Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update
Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update

Author: Pascual Ángel Gargiulo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-23

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 3030617211

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This broad and thought-provoking volume provides an overview of recent intellectual and scientific advances that intersect psychiatry and neuroscience, offering a wide range of penetrating insights in both disciplines. The fourth volume on the topic in the last several years from a varying panel of international experts identifies the borders, trends and implications in both fields today and goes beyond that into related disciplines to seek out connections and influences. Similar to its three Update book predecessors, Psychiatry and Neuroscience – Volume IV presents a range of interesting topics in the main disciplines – psychiatry and neuroscience – and attempts to provide deeper comprehension or explication of the normal and diseased human mind, its biological correlates and its biographical and existential implications. This engaging volume continues the previous style of exploring different disciplines and trying to integrate disciplinary evidence from varying points of view in an organic manner. The first section is about epistemological considerations regarding the study of normal and abnormal human behaviors, including, for example, the topic of phenomenological psychopathology and phenomenological psychiatry in relation to schizophrenia and substance misuse, among other topics. Section 2 addresses issues around the translation of basic neuroscience to expression in the human brain and behavioral implications. Section 3 discusses the issues of learning, teaching and the role of social environment in the field of neuroscience. Finally section 4 reviews various perspectives on explaining human pathological behaviors -- from brain disorders to psychopathology.

Being Against the World
Being Against the World

Author: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2008-07-17

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1134046235

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How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.