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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
1. Introduction
2. And Then There Was Shape
Behind Diversity in the Animal Kingdom, a Single Plan
When the Zootype Becomes Neuronal
The Shapes We Have Inherited
The Conductor of the Orchestra
The Story of the Embryo
Signals and Mechanisms
Our New Head
Migrants on the Road
How to Build a Vertebrate
3. The Masterpiece
The Cortical Brain
What Is Inside a Walnut?
Limbo of the Mind
The Vertebrate: An Emancipated Animal!
4. The Workshop of the Brain
Tissue Regeneration
New Neurons in the Adult
Juvenile Plasticity
Connectional Plasticity in the Adult Brain
Olfaction: The Prototype of Epigenesis
When the Brain Goes Wrong
When the Cortex Takes Over a Grafted Limb
Meditation and Cerebral Plasticity
Plasticity in Homo cultiorus
5. The Brain Under Repair
Disheartening Statistics
The Aging Brain
Dementia and Other Cerebral Pathology
Diseases of the Mind
When the Brain Takes Over a Lost Limb
The Wounded Brain, the Incomplete Brain
The Brain Under Stress
Cognitive Remediation
6. The Enhanced Brain
The Cerebots Are Coming
I Think, Therefore I Act
The Neurologist’s Rosetta Stone
Robots with Neurons
Fiat Lux
Brain Doping
The Infinitely Small in Our Brain
The Birth of the First Nanoelements
Nanotechnology and Medicine
When Nanoscience Merges with life
Neurofeedback: Cerebral Bodybuilding
The Transhuman Brain
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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