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The prime impetus behind this enthusiasm is a form of brain imaging called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an instrument that came of age a mere two decades ago, which measures brain activity and converts it into the now-iconic vibrant images one sees in the science pages of the daily newspaper.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comGilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Anthropology
Sarah Kokernot • 1 card
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Matthew R. Longoscientificamerican.com
“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote in the dawning years of the twenty-first century, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
Professor Rory Wilson of Swansea University has researched the degree to which illness, hormones, nutrition and emotions affect the movements of both humans and cockroaches.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
Neuroscience
Matthew Sparks • 4 cards