The Rough Guide to the Brain answers all the important questions: how does the memory work? Are we addicted to television? What is Alzheimer's Disease? Can machines read our minds? The human brain, with all its inherent complexity, has taken on near mythical status. Its 100 billion nerve cells, forged by nature and refined over millions of years, allow humans the capacity to survive, create culture, love. Once an impenetrable grey mass, modern science is getting to grips with our brains at an unprecedented rate. We are ...
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The Rough Guide to the Brain answers all the important questions: how does the memory work? Are we addicted to television? What is Alzheimer's Disease? Can machines read our minds? The human brain, with all its inherent complexity, has taken on near mythical status. Its 100 billion nerve cells, forged by nature and refined over millions of years, allow humans the capacity to survive, create culture, love. Once an impenetrable grey mass, modern science is getting to grips with our brains at an unprecedented rate. We are moving from a time of anatomy, in which science did well to characterize the various regions of the brain, to a time in which we can observe thought processes in real time. We have entered a neural renaissance. The Rough Guide to the Brain is for anyone who's ever wanted to know more about how their brain and mind works - and what goes wrong when it doesn't. From how we evolved such an impressive organ to how it achieves the feat that is you. Including numerous insights from leaders in their fields, with The Rough Guide to the Brain, there's no better way to stimulate your grey matter.
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The brain is one of nature's most complicated developments: It senses, makes sense, reminds us of what worked or failed before, lets us plan ahead for events we have yet to experience. In all, the brain and its many aspects is something that all of technology has not even come close to replicating, although we continute trying. And may get it right someday, at least in parts.
And, replicate is what nature does, in spades---we share these complicated neural features among all humans, and things work so well that we can easily communicate with each communicate with each other and even learn from each other. How does the brain do this? What happens when the brain breaks down due to age, disease, injury?
Barry Gibbs has written an illustrated text that is so clear, and at the same time so full of organized information, that the book is useful to high school student through experienced neuroscientist. I know this personally, for it is one of m favorite gifts to those expressing an interest in the brain, in neurophysiology, in learning, in human beings. It always gets a huge "thank you!"
The book starts out with the enigmatic history of how, and why, the brain developed, why the major sensing organs (eyes, ears, tongue) are so close to the "central processor." It moves along in a very logical way, taking the reader on a surprisingly varied road. Our memory systems are covered, the concept sof consciousness and "self awareness" are discussed in a very understandable way, and the thing everyone is interested in, Intelligence, is given its own special section. All of these sections seem equally accessible and useful for the high school or college "advanced placement" student, and in fact they are so well organized as to lay a meaningful framework of knowledge that is useful even for advanced readers.
Dr. Gibbs, himself a molecular biologist, then takes us into the ways the brain communicates among its various structures, pathways, and activity centers. You will learn what terms like "neurons," "neurotransmitter," and "electroencephalograph" (EEG) mean, how to use "synapses" and "hippocampus" in your discussions---and not awkwardly but with understanding, feeling, and meaningfulness.
The book may well take the novice reader on new paths of discovery, and the advanced reader on a re-examination of his or her stored knowledge set. In all cases, the light will go on---the brain is fascinating, and there is no reason its workings shouldn't be part of the national discussion. The hunt for how it works is on, and this book invites us all along.
