Making up the Mind How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

by Frith, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781405136945
• ISBN10: 1405136944
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible

Author Biography

Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His publications include Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

The Birth of the Archaea: A Personal Retrospective

Natural History of the Archaeal Domain

The Root of the Tree: Lateral Gene Transfer and the Nature of The Domains

Diversity of Uncultivated Archaea: Perspectives from Microbial Ecology and Metagenomics: Christa Schleper (University of Bergen)

Nanoarchaeota

Families of DNA Viruses Infecting Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaea

Features of the Genomes: Hans-Peter Klenk (e.gene Biotechnologie)

Sulfolobus Genomes: Mechanisms of Rearrangements and Change

Plasmids: Georg Lipps (University of Bayreuth)

Integration Mechanisms: Possible Role in Genome Evolution

Genetics

Genetic Properties of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Related Archaea

Chromatin and Regulation

DNA Replication and the Cell Cycle

DNA Repair

Transcriptional Mechanisms

Transcriptional Regulation in Haloarchaea: Felicitas Pfeifer `(Darmstadt University of Technology)

Aminoacyl-tRNAs: Deciphering and Defining the Genetic Message: Alexandre Ambrogelly (Yale University)

Translational Mechanisms and Protein Synthesis

Expanding World of Small Non-coding RNAs

Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Structural Genomics of Pyrococcus furiosus

The Glycolytic Pathways of Archaea: Evolution by Tinkering

Metabolism of Inorganic Sulfur Compounds

Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase in Methanogens and Methanotrophs

Methylation of Metal(loid)s by Methanoarchaea: Production of Volatile D

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