Books and other Publications

• I have written two books. One is for a general audience

  

  
  Entitled The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, the book describes a general neurobiological framework for discovering how consciousness, the subjective mind, arises out of the flickering interactions among the neurons of the cerebral cortex and related brain areas. The book is based on collaborative work between Francis Crick and myself from 1990 until 2004. If you have questions about our approach and the way we define terms, check out this glossary.

• Another one is a textbook

  

  Entitled, Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons.It analyzes how individual nerve cells process information and details the biophysical mechanisms underlying computation at the level of synapses, channels and membranes.

• Together with my good friend Idan Segev, this book of our's

  

  Methods in Neuronal Modeling, is now in its second edition.

• I edited two other books and authored or co-authored with members of my laboratory or with other colleagues more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and more than 140 book and conference chapters.

• My h citation index is 59. I have been awarded 7 patents by the US Patent Office. You can download most of these publications here.

• Together with my younger brother Andreas,
  
  

  

  and his company CortexProductions, France. we are working on a 13 minutes long, computer-animated movie travelling through the visual system, from the retina to deep into cortex (see one frame from a pilot).

• Of course, I also love to read books. Here is a list of books I've just read.