neuroscience and neurobiology books

	Neurobiology of Aggression and Rage
	By: Allan Siegel ISBN: 0415308348 Publisher: Informa Healthcare Release Date: 29 November, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1600528
	Computational Models for Neuroscience: Human Cortical Information Processing
	By: Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Thomas McKenna ISBN: 1852335939 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 31 January, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1419673	Chapter 4 of this book is the pot of gold: A concrete, detailed description of how the cerebral cortex works. Thinking relies upon an operation which could be called confabulation (in the chapter it is called concensus building). THIS IS NOT REASONING (at least in any classical sense). Yet, because the simple kind of knowledge used (antecedent support probabilities) is exhaustive, concensus building yields excellent conclusions. This cortical theory also shows why AI has failed: reasoning is too difficult and requires too much knowledge of an expensive type. Cortex gets by with a much simpler type of knowledge (which only concerns pairs of object and action attributes, not n-tuples) which, while it is needed in huge quantities, is easy to obtain. An implication of this corticl theory is that we can now proceed to develop successful AI by adopting this cortical design. The theory is illustrated by means of computer thinking experiments that yield compelling results (and which readers can replicate).
	The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
	By: Steven Rose ISBN: 0739458078 Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 2005 Bioscience book rank: 2084182
	Annual Review of Neuroscience
	By: Jonathan P. Brown, Andrea Bibbig, Allison J. Bigbee, Jonathan M. Blagburn, Laura M. Bohn, Edward S. Boyden, Steven E. Hyman, Thomas M. Jessell, Carla J. Shatz, Charles F. Stevens ISBN: 0824324293 Publisher: Annual Reviews Release Date: July, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 2182551	I made it out of New Orleans after Katrina with a backpack. In it I brought one book--this one! Before getting to the articles, I should mention that the '05 ARN has some major new design features. Most importantly, there are MANY more color illustrations which are now integrated into the text, instead of being on separate plates as in previous volumes. The paper stock is heavier and of higher quality. The book dimensions are also somewhat different. These changes make for a significant enhancement of reading pleasure. <br /> With regard to the review articles, they are of course of the usual high quality associated with ARN and on a broad spectrum of topics. As a neurologist, the most clinically relevant ones to me included "Molecular Pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease"--an excellent overview of the recent advances in the genetics and such topics as ubiquitin-proteasome system and mitochondrial dysfunction in PD--an article by Simon Baron-Cohen on autism, and a very interesting new theory on the function of the locus coeruleus, which speculates that its two major functions are to enhance task performance (in phasic firing mode) and to stimulate the organism to disengage and look elsewhere for reward (in tonic firing mode). A controversial lead-off article by Toga and Thompson is on the genetics of brain structure and intelligence, outlining new approaches to the always topical questions regarding the hereditability and definition of intelligence. In the basic science type articles, I especially liked the one on Dendritic Computation--instantiating the properties of dendrites into model neurons in neural network systems is going to be of major importance. So all in all this new ARN sets a new standard in the distinguished history of these volumes. <br /> By the way, you can get it for about $100 cheaper if you subscribe to the ARN series in advance. Even if you're an academic type and have access to it through the library it's worthwhile owning your own volume. I should also mention that by buying the volume you also get online access, with the usual advantages of HTML format with clickable references to get Medline abstracts and so forth, and downloadable in .pdf format so you can cut and paste illustrations for talks. But I'm an old-fashioned type, and for sustained reading a book still is the clear winner over a computer screen.
	Neurobiology of Aggression: Understanding and Preventing Violence (Contemporary Neuroscience)
	By: Mark P Mattson ISBN: 158829188X Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 24 March, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1775985
	The Brain's Alpha Rhythms and the Mind: A review of classical and modern studies of the alpha rhythm component of the electroencephalogram with commentaries ... associated neuroscience and neuropsychology
	By: J. C. Shaw ISBN: 0444513973 Publisher: Elsevier Release Date: 12 September, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1752325
	A clinical worksheet for neurology nurse practitioners. (Clinical Corner).: An article from: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
	By: Denise Mears ISBN: Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Release Date: 30 July, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 2098216
	Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
	By: Helen Tager-Flusberg ISBN: 026220116X Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 30 July, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 1616184
	Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots: Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Robotics, and Neuroscience (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
	By: Stefan Wermter, Günther Palm, Mark Elshaw ISBN: 3540274405 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 22 August, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1721271
	Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
	By: Alan Page Fiske ISBN: 0071284869 Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education Release Date: 01 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 2316137