Vital Models
The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences
Academic Press
Published on 15. August 2017
246 pages
978-0-12-812558-8 (ISBN)
Description
The use of models has been important to the historical and contemporary study of the human brain, yet very little study by social scientists has been dedicated to how the brain sciences develop and use models to better understand what brains are and how they work, including the complex entanglements between brains, bodies and their environments. Vital Models: The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences explores the history and use of brain models from clinical psychiatry to psychopharmacology and cybernetics, as well as developments in digital brain modeling, simulation, imaging and connectomics.
This timely volume helps both scientists and students better understand the variety, strengths, weaknesses and applicability of models in neuroscience.
- Presents a timely update on the topic of brain research and modeling techniques
- Contains sections from true authorities in the field
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Tara Mahfoud | Sam McLean | Nikolas Rose
Vital Models: Volume 233
The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences
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PrefaceTara Mahfoud, Sam McLean and Nikolas Rose1. Vital brains: On the entanglement of media, minds, and modelsCornelius Borck2. Slicing the cortex to study mental illness: Alois Alzheimer's pictures of equivalenceLara Keuck3. Opaque models: Using drugs and dreams to explore the neurobiological basis of mental phenomenaNicolas Langlitz4. Man not a machine: models, minds, and mental labor, c.1980Max Stadler5. Infrastructural intelligence: Contemporary entanglements of neuroscience and AIJohannes Bruder6. Learning from large-scale neural simulationsMaria Serban7. Connectomes as constitutively epistemic objects: critical perspectives on modeling in current neuroanatomyPhilipp Haueis, Jan Slaby8. Bridging the gap between system and cell: The role of ultra-high field MRI in human neuroscienceRobert Turner, Daniel De Haan
