Jay Schulkin is a research professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books, including
Reflections on the Musical Mind: An Evolutionary Perspective (2013).
42 Ebooks par Jay Schulkin
Jay Schulkin: Sport
Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today’s …
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Jay Schulkin: Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience
We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great resp …
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€53.49
Jay Schulkin: Reflections on the Musical Mind
What’s so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one a …
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€59.99
Jay Schulkin: Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging
If you are a woman between the ages of 45 and 75 and are trying to decide whether to try, or stick with, hormone therapy (HT), or if you are a physician with patients fitting this description, this b …
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€96.29
Jay Schulkin: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience
This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Jr., and the pragmatist tra …
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€85.59
William F. Rayburn & Jay Schulkin: Changing Landscape of Academic Women’s Health Care in the United States
Since 2005 a dozen states and more than 15 specialties have reported a physician shortage or anticipate one in the next few years. This anticipated shortage and a worsening of physician distribution …
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€149.79
Louis A. Schmidt & Jay Schulkin: Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia
Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia assembles a stellar group of researchers to discuss the origins, development, and outcomes of extreme fear and shyness. By selecting the foremost experts from …
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€30.68
Jay Schulkin: Bodily Sensibility
Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from t …
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€35.18
Jay Schulkin: CRF Signal
Information molecules, such as Cortico-Releasing Factor (CRF), are ancient and widely distributed across diverse organs, playing various regulatory roles. CRF has been associated with a range of huma …
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€76.82
Jay Schulkin: CRF Signal
Information molecules, such as Cortico-Releasing Factor (CRF), are ancient and widely distributed across diverse organs, playing various regulatory roles. CRF has been associated with a range of huma …
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€59.04
Jay Schulkin: Bodily Sensibility
Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from t …
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€45.04
Louis A. Schmidt & Jay Schulkin: Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia
Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia assembles a stellar group of researchers to discuss the origins, development, and outcomes of extreme fear and shyness. By selecting the foremost experts from …
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€29.71
Jay Schulkin: Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function
We are social animals, with evolved mechanisms to discern the beliefs and desires of others. This social reason is linked to the concept of intentionality, the ability to attribute beliefs and desire …
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€68.26
David Sarokin & Jay Schulkin: Missed Information
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and …
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€76.88
Britta L. Anderson & Jay Schulkin: Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
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€42.48
Britta L. Anderson & Jay Schulkin: Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
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Jay Schulkin: Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation
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€65.73
Jay Schulkin: Preoperative Events
Preoperative Events switches the focus from post-operative rehabilitation to preoperative experiences and personal histories to lessen the consequences of brain damage. These papers document the rela …
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€70.67
Jay Schulkin: Preoperative Events
Preoperative Events switches the focus from post-operative rehabilitation to preoperative experiences and personal histories to lessen the consequences of brain damage. These papers document the rela …
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€70.60
Jonathan D. Moreno & Jay Schulkin: The Brain in Context
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides in recent years in understanding aspects of the brain, yet we still struggle wi …
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€29.99
Michael L. Power & Jay Schulkin: Evolution of Obesity
In this sweeping exploration of the relatively recent obesity epidemic, Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin probe evolutionary biology, history, physiology, and medical science to uncover the causes of …
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€36.12
Jay Schulkin: Effort
In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the cognitive and non-cognitive brain, and there are d …
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€61.76
Jay Schulkin: Effort
In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the cognitive and non-cognitive brain, and there are d …
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€61.69
Matthew Crippen & Jay Schulkin: Mind Ecologies
Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, t …
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€35.99
Michael Power & Jay Schulkin: Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education
Clinicians and scientists are increasingly recognising the importance of an evolutionary perspective in studying the aetiology, prevention, and treatment of human disease; the growing prominence of g …
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€94.59
Michael L. Power & Jay Schulkin: Evolution of the Human Placenta
Power and Schulkin reveal the amazing evolution of the human placenta-and in so doing show how each of our lives began.As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two …
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€76.11
Michael L. Power & Jay Schulkin: Milk
Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together.After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This …
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€77.23
Jay Schulkin: Rethinking Homeostasis
An overview of allostasis, the process by which the body maintains overall viability under normal and adverse conditions.Homeostasis, a key concept in biology, refers to the tendency toward stability …
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€87.70
Gerd Gigerenzer & J.A. Muir Gray: Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions
How eliminating "risk illiteracy" among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making.Contrary to popular opinion, one of the main problems in providing uniformly exc …
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€102.85
Jay Schulkin: Curt Richter
In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is lea …
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€65.99
Bryce Huebner & Jay Schulkin: Biological Cognition
This Element introduces a biological approach to cognition, which highlights the significance of allostatic regulation and the navigation of challenges and opportunities. It argues that cognition is …
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€21.87
Bryce Huebner & Jay Schulkin: Biological Cognition
This Element introduces a biological approach to cognition, which highlights the significance of allostatic regulation and the navigation of challenges and opportunities. It argues that cognition is …
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€21.83
Mark L. Johnson & Jay Schulkin: Mind in Nature
A dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey’s seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of human meaning, selfhood, and values provide wisdom fo …
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€153.77
David Sarokin & Jay Schulkin: Corporation
This publication traces the corporate path to power and influence in the modern world, and explores whether corporations of the future will become superpowers in their own right or, like the dinosaur …
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€109.35
