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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
New Human Frontiers series
Title page
Copyright page
acknowledgements
introduction
The proliferating prefix
The co-production of neuroscience, society and the self
The technosciences in neoliberalism
Notes
one: The Rise and Rise of the Neurosciences
The genealogy of the neurosciences
The birth of a new science
The power of neuro
Hunting the molecule of madness
The animal model and its limits
The happy marriage?
Notes
two: The Neurosciences Go Mega
The Human Brain Project
Public engagement in science
In the beginning was the mouse
DARPA and the BRAIN Project
Solving the brain
A rip in neuroscience's big tent?
And yet neuro proliferates
Notes
three: Early Intervention
Mental and other capital
From Foresight to Allen
The political significance of the redefinition of poverty
The reports and their neuroscience
The origins of those MRI images of normality and neglect
Neuroscience, development and early intervention
(1) Synapses – the more the better?
(2) Enriched and impoverished environments
(3) Sensitive periods
(4) Stress and cortisol
(5) Attachment
The bridge is still too far
Notes
four: Neuroscience Goes to School
A booming industry
Enhancing educational achievement
Enhancing the brain
Neuroeducation and neuromyths
Neuroeducation within the boundaries
The ethics of research into education
Spaced learning
Teen sleep
And the view of the teens?
Neuroscience and neurodiversity
Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Notes
conclusion
Public engagement with neuroscience
Hope, hype and neoliberalism
Pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will?
Note
Index
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