How the Brain Works: Understanding Barain Funcion, Thought, and Personality
This series concentrates on the different systems of the human body, explaining the physical processes that allow us to live, eat, breathe, move, think and reproduce.
Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and peppered with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.
Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and sprinkled with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.
Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and sprinkled with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.
This book is neither an outline nor a summary, but an informal approach to the relationship between physiology and manifest behavior, including all essential elements covered in most courses.
Neurons and networks - Anatomy of complex brains - Sight - Cortex - Memory - Power of language.
How The Brain Works takes the reader from the physiology of the brain through to its processes – such as what happens in the brain while we sleep – and on to traumas, diseases and psychological conditions.
Surveys the evolution and development of the human brain, its structure, organization, functioning, biological-electrical-chemical operations, and capabilities, and its central importance to human thought, emotion, activity, and history