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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that...
3) Caged
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. police stumble upon a gruesome murder scene involving a girl who was slowly starved to death while held captive in a cage. When the victim is identified as the daughter of a high profile senator, FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair is thrust into the spotlight. Now another girl has been taken and is teetering on the brink of death. Sayer races to save the second victim, but soon realizes that they are hunting a killer with a dangerous...
4) Buried
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 356 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rooting him out and exposing internal corruption got her a bullet wound and six months of desk duty. Now, she's finally back in the field, called in when an off-duty FBI agent and his cadaver dog fall into a sinkhole filled with human bones. Found deep in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park,...
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New York City cop Barry Sutton investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-- a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Neuroscientist Helena Smith dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment...
6) The God wave
Author
Series
God wave volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction--Limitless meets James Rollins--that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashion. For decades, scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her...
8) Replicas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
10) Replicas
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
11) The female brain
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No-nonsense neuroscientist Julia is researching the biochemistry of the female brain of three couples: newlyweds Zoe and Greg, whose career troubles seep into their relationship; Lisa and Steven, who are looking to spice up their stuck-in-a-rut marriage; and Lexi who can't help trying to change her boyfriend Adam. Meanwhile, the straight-laced Julia's own synapses start to fire when a handsome new subject joins her study.
12) Geneva
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Her father is suffering from Alzheimer's and needs special care. She's started to...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life--and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense of oneness and peace to be found there. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, being named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential...
Author
Publisher
Mit Kids Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From childhood, Santiago was an artist, and he always would be. Discover how he also came to be known as the Father of Neuroscience in this story of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's life"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Tunnel vision
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Awakening from a months-long coma speaking the Lord's Prayer in the original Aramaic, twenty-five-year-old Zack Kashian inadvertently triggers media and religious frenzies before he is hired by a secret neuroscience group that researches near-death experiences.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A neuroscientist tells the story of his youth spent as a drug addict, while using the specific example of his own story to help explain drug use and addiction in general from a scientific standpoint.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery...
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