Peter Sterling Libri

An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousend neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently.