Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
From Loss to Memory : Behind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning, Hardback Book

From Loss to Memory : Behind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning Hardback

Hardback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

How do the billions of connections between neurons in our brain change as we learn and remember?

This is the story of the discovery and the discoverer of synaptic pruning, the process of synapse elimination central to making us who we are.

Taking the reader from Professor Peter Huttenlocher's childhood in wartime and post-war Germany to his emigration to the US to reunite with his mother and the launch and progress of a career in medicine and research, we uncover the motivations and process of scientific discovery that led to an unexpected leap in our understanding of the human brain.

Decades after the discovery, the importance of synaptic pruning to early learning, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions are now in the process of being uncovered.

Information

£64.99

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information