Neuroplasticity in Humans
Neuroplasticity describes the ability of human and animal brains to reorganize themselves continuously throughout the lifespan. In addition to the genetic information that is accumulated during evolution to secure the survival of an organism, neuroplastic
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Neuroscience for Psychologists An Introduction
Neuroscience for Psychologists
Marc L. Zeise Editor
Neuroscience for Psychologists An Introduction
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Marc L. Zeise School of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities University of Santiago de Chile Santiago, RM - Santiago, Chile
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This book is dedicated to my mother, Dr. Erika Zeise.
Preface Do you know that nature has invented digitalization and what it is good for? What does the word “drug” mean? Such and similar questions I ask in class to stimulate interest for neuroscience. It typically works with the second question, but only sometimes with the first one. To arouse motivation is certainly a crucial ingredient for a teacher´s success in a learning process and texts used to teach should also be motivating coinciding with the particular interest of students. When I started lecturing about the basics of neuroscience at the School of Psychology, University of Santiago de Chile, nearly 15 years ago, I found that existing textbooks that introduce the field were not very motivating for my students. This is in spite of the fact that there are excellent texts written by outstanding scientists providing pregraduate and graduate students with a wealth of up-to-date information about the nervous system, well written and well presented, systematic and quite complete, but destined for and written by people of the biomedical sciences. Psychology students are not easy to convince that they have to learn about transduction mechanisms or enzymes involved in the synt
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