Author: Donald Pfaff
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: genetic, mechanisms, neural, theory, arousal, information, brain
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $51.50
ISBN-10: 0674019202
ISBN-13: 9780674019201

Arousal is fundamental to all cognition. It is intuitively obvious, absolutely necessary, but what exactly is it? In Brain Arousal and Information Theory, Donald Pfaff presents a daring perspective on this long-standing puzzle. Pfaff argues that, beneath our mental functions and emotional dispositions, a primitive neuronal system governs arousal. Employing the simple but powerful framework of information theory, Pfaff revolutionizes our understanding of arousal systems in the brain. Starting with a review of the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neurochemical components of arousal, Pf

Author: Donald W. Pfaff
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: molecular, cellular, neuroscience, motivation, mechanisms, neurobiological, drive, sexual
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-10-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0262661470
ISBN-13: 9780262661478

"In a lucidly written book that is intellectually stimulating yet still true fun, Dr. Pfaff has accomplished the seemingly impossible. He has thoroughly reviewed research on sexual drive from genes and molecules to human behavior. The resulting synthesis provides fresh insights into how we think, feel, and behave." -- Solomon H. Snyder, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University What arouses an animal or human from an inactive, nonresponsive state to a condition of activity and responsiveness? What are the biological mechanisms for this change? In this book Donald W. Pfaff

Authors:Donald W. Pfaff, M. Ian Phillips, Robert T Rubin,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: relations, behavior, hormone, principles
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-10-04
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0125531494
ISBN-13: 9780125531498

This text introduces underlying principles of the endocrine regulation of behavior in animals and humans. Every chapter begins by stating a principle, followed by specific examples of hormone actions derived from scientific experiments and clinical observations, and concludes with a few challenging unanswered questions. The reference source Hormones, Brain & Behavior identified this field as rapidly expanding within neurobiology and endocrinology. Now, this well-illustrated and referenced text will serve students from undergraduate school to medical school as they learn this new discip

Author: Robert F. Pfaff Jr.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mission, fast
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0792370465
ISBN-13: 9780792370468

The FAST Mission contains detailed discussion of the design philosophy of a new breed of satellite to measure particles and fields in the magnetosphere. The FAST Mission is the only publicly available resource to provide complete and authoritative documentation of the FAST satellite and instruments. The FAST Mission contains detailed examples and descriptions of data gathered by its instruments and will thus be an invaluable source to those working with results from this new observatory. FAST’s `snapshot’ data gathering approach that utilizes an onboard computer to recogn

Author: Françoise Pfaff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: films, african, focus
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-06-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253216680
ISBN-13: 9780253216687

Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking throughout Africa. As a whole, the collection highlights the distinct thematic, stylistic, and socioeconomic circumstances of African filmmaking. Individual essays show how conditions in Africa have generated a broad range of views and techniques, from the stylistically innovative documentaries of Jean-Marie Teno and Abderrahmane Sissako and the "documentary fiction" of Mahamat-Saleh Harou

Author: Bernhard Pfaff
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, time, cointegrated, integrated, analysis
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0387759662
ISBN-13: 9780387759661

The analysis of integrated and co-integrated time series can be considered as the main methodology employed in applied econometrics. This book not only introduces the reader to this topic but enables him to conduct the various unit root tests and co-integration methods on his own by utilizing the free statistical programming environment R. The book encompasses seasonal unit roots, fractional integration, coping with structural breaks, and multivariate time series models. The book is enriched by numerous programming examples to artificial and real data so that it is ideally suited as an accompa

Author: Markus Pfaff
Publisher: Hanser Fachbuchverlag
Keywords: schaltungstechnik, und, elektronik
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3446406948
ISBN-13: 9783446406940