Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
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心灵肖像：从古代到 21 世纪的大脑可视化
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2010
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Jonah Lehrer
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C. Schoonover;Jonah Lehrer
迄今为止，人类大脑仍然是我们体内最难以捉摸、最神秘、最复杂的器官。然而，在过去的十到十五年里，创建大脑及其组成部分图像的新方法和新技术使神经科学取得了前所未有的进步，为我们提供了观察和解释我们的大脑和我们自己的新方法。正如哥伦比亚大学著名神经科学家埃里克·坎德尔 (Eric Kandel) 博士最近告诉《纽约时报》的那样：在这一领域，我们仅仅处于一座巨大山脉的山麓……事实上，新成像技术带来的发现速度远远超出了我们对科学家发现的理解。这是神经科学领域非常激动人心的时刻，而《心灵肖像：从古代到 21 世纪的大脑可视化》一书捕捉到了这个美丽新世界最重要、最迷人的亮点。所制作的非常美丽的图像被用于世界各地科学家的日常工作中，但大多数只有科学家才能看到，这本书将首次被主流读者看到。七个章节将介绍一个不同的研究领域，并由专门从事该领域的著名科学家撰写的简短文章，并附有十到十五张最能阐明主题的图像，以及斯库诺弗的广泛而详细的说明，从简短的内容开始描述和分析每个部分的意义。概述了从古代到 19 世纪现代神经科学的诞生的过去的心灵理论，并为我们带来了现代的最新进展和技术，所有这些都以真正壮观的图像来说明，这些图像可以被认为是抽象艺术，从列奥纳多·达·芬奇和圣地亚哥·拉蒙·卡哈尔（被许多人认为是最伟大的神经科学家）等科学家的复杂图画到最新的图像，例如通过某种技术产生的壮观的彩虹色神经元Brainbow 于 2007 年被发现，允许研究人员同时研究一百多个神经元之间的解剖关系（以前一次只能识别几个神经元），作者 Carl Schoonover 和贡献的科学家以非科学家读者易于理解的语气和风格描述、分析和传达每个主题的重要性和背景，但科学信息足够丰富，因此这本书肯定也会吸引铁杆科学家乔纳。莱勒将撰写序言。
The human brain to this day remains the most elusive, mysterious, and maddeningly complex organ in our bodies. Yet, during the last ten to fifteen years, novel methods and new technologies for creating images of the brain and its components have enabled unprecedented advances in neuroscience, providing us with new ways of seeing and interpreting our brains and ourselves. As Dr. Eric Kandel, a renowned neuroscientist at Columbia recently told the New York Times: In this field, we are merely in the foothills of an enormous mountain range...A" In fact, the rate of discovery as a result of new imaging techniques far outstrips our understanding of what scientists are finding. It's a very exciting time in neuroscience, and Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century captures the most important, most fascinating highlights of this brave new world unfolding to scientists for a whole new audience. The remarkably beautiful images being produced are used in the daily work of scientists around the world, yet most have been seen only by scientists and will be viewed in this book for the first time by a mainstream audience. Seven chapters will each introduce a different area of study with a brief essay written by a well-known scientist specializing in that field and accompanied by ten to fifteen images that best elucidate the topic and extensive, detailed captions by Schoonover describing and analyzing the significance of each. Beginning with a brief overview of past theories of the mind, from antiquity to the birth of modern neuroscience in the 19th century, and bringing us up to the latest advances and techniques in modern times, all is illustrated with truly spectacular images that could pass for abstract art, from intricate drawings by such scientists as Leonardo da Vinci and Santiago Ramon y Cajal (considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all) to the latest imagery such as the spectacular rainbow-colored neurons being produced by a technique called Brainbow, which was discovered in 2007 and allows researchers to study the anatomical relationships between more than a hundred neurons at once (previously only a few at a time could be discerned). Author Carl Schoonover and the contributing scientists describe, analyse and convey the importance and context of each subject in a tone and style that is accessible and easily grasped by a non-scientist reader. Yet the scientific information is substantial enough that the book will surely appeal to hard-core scientists as well. Author and scientist Jonah Lehrer will contribute a foreword.