Lessons from the Lobster Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience by Charlotte Nassim is the beautiful biography of ms Marder a neuroscientist who studied for more than 40 years lobsters and their neurons; published this June by MIT press every book by MIT is not just captivating but interesting and entralling; this one, if you love neuroscience will be spectacular.The story of ms.Marder is fascinating.
In love for reading, nature, animals, she had a great anger for learning since she was very little. She studied with success and then, few girls still had that priviledge, because in the 1960s, she started to work as a researcher in the biology department of the university of San Diego.
Our brain counts ninety billion available neurons interconnected via synapses. Lobsters, the animals Eve Marder studied for a life have a modest number of neurons, just thirty in total, but studying them in profundity, neuromodulation, homeostasis, neuronal network, so, the life, behaviors of lobsters, Marder understood that her discoveries could open other intuitions for the study and research of the dynamics of human brain.
From 1978 ms. Marder has run her own laboratory at Brandeis University.
President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008, she won a lot of awards including the 2016 Kavli Award in Neuroscienceand the 2013 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience.
I thank MIT Press for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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