Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience

by Charlotte Nassim

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037785
• ISBN13: 9780262037785
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher