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Lessons from the Lobster - Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience (Hardcover)
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Lessons from the Lobster - Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience (Hardcover)
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How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a
lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human
brain. Neuroscientist Eve Marder has spent forty years studying
thirty neurons on the stomach of a lobster. Her focus on this tiny
network of cells has yielded valuable insights into the much more
complex workings of the human brain; she has become a leading voice
in neuroscience. In Lessons from the Lobster, Charlotte Nassim
describes Marder's work and its significance accessibly and
engagingly, tracing the evolution of a supremely gifted scientist's
ideas. From the lobster's digestion to human thought is very big
leap indeed. Our brains selectively recruit networks from about
ninety billion available neurons; the connections are extremely
complex. Nevertheless, as Nassim explains, Marder's study of a
microscopic knot of stomatogastric neurons in lobsters and crabs, a
small network with a countable number of neurons, has laid vital
foundations for current brain research projects. Marder's approach
is as intuitive as it is analytic, but always firmly anchored to
data. Every scrap of information is a pointer for Marder; her
discoveries depend on her own creative thinking as much as her
laboratory's findings. Nassim describes Marder's important findings
on neuromodulation, the secrets of neuronal networks, and
homeostasis. Her recognition of the importance of animal-to-animal
variability has influenced research methods everywhere. Marder has
run her laboratory at Brandeis University since 1978. She was
President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008 and she is the
recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 Kavli Award in
Neuroscience and the 2013 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience. Research
that reaches the headlines often depends on technical fireworks,
and especially on spectacular images. Marder's work seldom fits
that pattern, but this book demonstrates that a brilliant scientist
working carefully and thoughtfully can produce groundbreaking
results.
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