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Memory Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Mechanistic Basis of Memory

By: Karl Peter Giese

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Memory Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Mechanistic Basis of Memory

By: Karl Peter Giese

Memory Mechanisms is an edited review volume that summarizes state-of-the-art knowledge on memory mechanisms at the molecular, cellular and circuit level. Each review is written by leading experts in the field, presenting not only current knowledge, but also discussing the concepts, providing critical reflections and suggesting an outlook for future studies. The memory mechanisms are also discussed in the context of diseases. Studies of memory deficits in disease models are introduced as well as approaches to restore memory deficits. Finally, the impact of contemporary memory research for psychiatry is illustrated.

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World Scientific

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9814366706

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9789814366700

Neural Masses and Fields: Modelling the Dynamics of Brain Activity

By: Karl Friston

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Neural Masses and Fields: Modelling the Dynamics of Brain Activity

By: Karl Friston

Biophysical modelling of brain activity has a long and illustrious history and has recently profited from technological advances that furnish neuroimaging data at an unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. Neuronal modelling is a very active area of research, with applications ranging from the characterization of neurobiological and cognitive processes, to constructing artificial brains in silico and building brain-machine interface and neuroprosthetic devices. Biophysical modelling has always benefited from interdisciplinary interactions between different and seemingly distant fields; ranging from mathematics and engineering to linguistics and psychology. This Research Topic aims to promote such interactions by promoting papers that contribute to a deeper understanding of neural activity as measured by fMRI or electrophysiology. In general, mean field models of neural activity can be divided into two classes: neural mass and neural field models. The main difference between these classes is that field models prescribe how a quantity characterizing neural activity (such as average depolarization of a neural population) evolves over both space and time as opposed to mass models, which characterize activity over time only; by assuming that all neurons in a population are located at (approximately) the same point. This Research Topic focuses on both classes of models and considers several aspects and their relative merits that: span from synapses to the whole brain; comparisons of their predictions with EEG and MEG spectra of spontaneous brain activity; evoked responses, seizures, and fitting data - to infer brain states and map physiological parameters.

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Frontiers Media SA

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2889194272

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9782889194278

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same

By: Karl Lowith

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same

By: Karl Lowith

This long overdue English translation of Karl Löwith's magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Its initial publication was extraordinary in itself—a dissident interpretation, written by a Jew, appearing in National Socialist Germany in 1935. Since then, Löwith's book has continued to gain recognition as one of the key texts in the German Nietzsche reception, as well as a remarkable effort to reclaim the philosopher's work from political misappropriation. For Löwith, the centerpiece of Nietzsche's thought is the doctrine of eternal recurrence, a notion which Löwith, unlike Heidegger, deems incompatible with the will to power. His careful examination of Nietzsche's cosmological theory of the infinite repetition of a finite number of states of the world suggests the paradoxical consequences this theory implies for human freedom. How is it possible to will the eternal recurrence of each moment of one's life, if both this decision and the states of affairs governed by it appear to be predestined? Löwith's book, one of the most important, if seldom acknowledged, sources for recent Anglophone Nietzsche studies, remains a central text for all concerned with understanding the philosopher's work.

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Univ of California Press

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0520353633

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9780520353633

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

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Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

By: Hans-Peter Blume,Gerhard W. Brümmer,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn,Ellen Kandeler,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Ruben Kretzschmar,Karl Stahr,B.-Michael Wilke

The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed us. But they are in many ways in danger and their conservation is therefore a most important focus for science, governments and society as a whole. A team of world recognised researchers have prepared this first English edition based on the 16th European edition. • The precursors and the processes of soil development • The physical, biological and chemical properties of soils • Nutrients and Pollutants • The various soil classifications with the main focus on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) • The most important soils and soil landscapes of the world • Soil Evaluation Techniques • Basic Principles of Soil Conservation Whoever works with soils needs this book.

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Springer

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3642309429

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Book's by Karl Peter Giese

Memory Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Memory Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Neural Masses and Fields: Modelling the Dynamics of Brain Activity

Neural Masses and Fields: Modelling the Dynamics of Brain Activity

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

Scheffer/Schachtschabel Soil Science

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