Kathleen Taylor

Gebundenes Buch

The Fragile Brain

The strange, hopeful science of dementia

Beschreibung

In Fragile Brains Kathleen Taylor looks at the genetic and lifestyle factors currently linked to the development of dementia, focusing on important new research on how the immune system operates in the brain.

Autor

Dr Kathleen Taylor studied physiology and philosophy at the University of Oxford. After a research MSc at Stirling University, working on brain chemistry, she returned to Oxford to do a DPhil in visual neuroscience and postdoctoral work on cognitive neuroscience. In 2002 she won two writing competitions run by the Times Higher Education Supplement, one for science writing and one for an essay in the humanities/social sciences. She has written on a range of topics from consciousness to cruelty, including several books published by OUP in the last decade: Brainwashing (2004), Cruelty (2009) and The Brain Supremacy (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780198726081
• ISBN-10: 0198726082
• Artikelnr.: 45561766