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1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Hoye. |
| Summary |
It's not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist-malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuroscience, and his decades-long quest to understand the inner workings of the brain's memory machine has begun to pay off.Award-winning journalist Terry McDermott spent nearly two years observing Lynch at work and now gives us a fascinating and dramatic account of daily life in Lynch's lab-the highs and lows, the drudgery and eureka moments, the agonizing failures. He provides detailed, lucid explanations of the cutting-edge science that enabled Lynch to reveal the inner workings of the molecular machine that manufactures memory. And he explains where Lynch's sights are now set: on drugs that could fix that machine when it breaks, drugs that would enhance brain function during the memory process and that hold out the possibility of cures for a wide range of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Here is an essential story of science, scientists, and scientific achievement-galvanizing in the telling and thrilling in its far-reaching implications. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Neurosciences -- Research -- California -- Irvine.
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Memory -- Research -- California -- Irvine.
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Lynch, Gary (Gary S.)
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Neuroscientists -- California -- Irvine.
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University of California, Irvine.
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Hoye, Stephen. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
One hundred one theory drive |
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One hundred and one theory drive |
| ISBN |
9781400196180 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400196183 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10756120 |
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