You often find yourself chasing after what society tells you is important. Maybe they say it's the bigger paycheck, the latest gadget, the fancy car—it all seems like it's the only road to happiness, doesn't it?Deep down, you may feel an unexplainable void that money can’t fill. Then, one fine day, while having fun and laughing with friends over a simple meal, you realize that these connections, the ones you’ve nurtured, are what truly make life rich.As you begin t...

A medical student asks the teacher why the brains hemispheres control opposite sides of the body. In this short book, the teacher engages the medical student, all neuroscience students, and anyone interested in the structure of brains in humans and other animals. Why does the left brain refer to the right side of the body and the right brain to the left side? Why are brains wired as they are?

Intended for the interested medical or neuroscience student, this short book reviews the history of explorations into a neuroanatomy of language. From the 1860s to today, the production and interpretation of words, words, words has engaged clinical and scientific thinking. To tell that story, Miyawaki enlists miniature biographies, illustrative cases, and portraits of seminal research. Along the way, he discusses the evaluation of language at the bedside of a patient and the pertinent neur...

For the interested medical or neuroscience student, or for trainees in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, Edison K. Miyawaki summarizes years of thinking about structures deep to the brain’s cortical surface. Addressing topics alphabetically, he describes relevant anatomy in humans and other vertebrates, and incorporates advances in subcortical physiology in his discussion. He maintains that knowledge about the relationship between cortex and subcortex is vital not only to an underst...

In 2019 and 2020, a teacher penned monographs whose aim was to instruct neuroanatomy not as textbooks do, but rather by exploring questions students and trainees often ask, altogether innocently–but the answers aren’t straightforward. What have we learned lately about the anatomy of memory? How much of cerebral cortex serves vision? Cortex and subcortex are linked: how are they linked, and what is the functional significance of the connectivity? In this second of two volumes, Miyawaki addr...

Imagine a seminar in which four smart people address the significance of a deep and central brain structure, the thalamus, in its relationship to the overlying cerebral cortex. Among the four, we hear from an economist, a mathematician, and two scientists. For medical or neuroscience students, or for trainees in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, Edison K. Miyawaki describes relevant thalamocortical anatomy in humans and other vertebrates. He summarizes known thalamocortical connecti...

Hard to master even for those who have studied it for years, the human brain stem is a fascination and a consternation—fascinating in its complexity and disconcerting to the beginner for precisely the same reason. Intended for medical or neuroscience students, Learning the Brainstem adopts an approach that the author has cultivated over twenty-five years of classroom and hospital teaching. His goal is to arrive at knowledge like that of a local based on a carefully narrated tour of axial s...

For the interested medical or neuroscience student, understanding how we visualize the world requires knowledge about occipital cortex . . . and about much else in the brain, including transitions from occipital to parietal and temporal lobes. Based on straightforward, carefully described anatomy in humans and primates, and informed by advances in cortical physiology over recent years, Miyawaki offers an accessible approach to understanding the multiple visual cortices. It has been said th...

This book offers an overview of the current knowledge on beta glucanase enzymes derived from actinobacterial source, their structure, functions and industrial applications. It summarizes the exploitation of actinomycetes, assay methods for beta glucanase screening, structural characterisation, genetic engineering, protein engineering, strategies for purification, characterisation and finally how to synthesize a hybrid enzyme of beta glucanases.Enzyme beta glucanases have considerable inter...

Remi Ocean is broken.With her oversized hoodies, orange hair, and that "go fuck yourself" smile, it's obvious. And I know why.It's my fault. It's our fault.If I could stay away from her, I would.I'd let that night go. Let her go. Let the charges and the dismissal and the justice she never got burn up into ash.But I can't.Someone needs me. And me? I need her.But the good girl is starting to go bad.I'm starting ...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

Have you ever heard of organic lotions? Imagine being able to make natural organic lotions right at home. Here’s a fact: it will definitely save you a good deal of money.Using organic lotion recipes don’t only save you money compared to manufactured buying lotions from the store. They are easy to make and it generally takes you only a few minutes to make the lotion you need. One of the first benefits of course is that you are sure that you’re not using any chemical residues on your...