The Other Brain
The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health
$38.75
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2011
Summary
Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked—until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain, and the role they play in how the brain functions, malfunctions, and heals itself.
Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing material, glia (meaning “glue”) are now known to regulate the flow of information bet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743291422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743291425 |
| Author: | R. Douglas Fields |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
The Other Brain offers an insightful, complex, and nuanced picture of the most interesting substance on earth: the matter inside our heads. -Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
“The Other Brain offers an insightful, complex, and nuanced picture of the most interesting substance on earth: the matter inside our heads.”
—Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
About The Author
R. Douglas Fields
R. Douglas Fields, Ph. D. is the Chief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. degree at San Jose State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego, working jointly in the Medical School and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Fields has conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Yale University, and the NIH. He became Head of the Neurocytology and Physiology Unit, NICHD in 1994, and Chief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section, NICHD in 2001. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuron Glia Biology, and member of the editorial board of several other journals in the field of neuroscience. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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