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The Brain - A Very Short Introduction

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Author(s): M. O'Shea
Series: A Very Short Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2005

Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 149

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of illustrations......Page 12
1 Thinking about the brain......Page 14
2 From humours to cells: components of mind......Page 25
3 Signalling in the brain: getting connected......Page 41
4 From the Big Bang to the big brain......Page 55
5 Sensing, perceiving, and acting......Page 77
6 Memories are made of this......Page 97
7 Broken brain: invention and intervention......Page 115
8 Epilogue......Page 135
Further reading......Page 138
C......Page 142
F......Page 143
K......Page 144
N......Page 145
P......Page 146
S......Page 147
V......Page 148
X......Page 149