Introduction -- Introducing your nervous system. A quick trip through the nervous system -- All about the brain and the spinal cord -- Understanding how neurons work -- Translating the internal and external world through your senses. Feeling your way: the skin senses -- Looking at vision -- Sounding off: the auditory system -- Odors and taste -- Moving right along: motor systems. Movement basics -- Coordinating things more: the spinal cord and pathways -- Planning and executing actions -- Unconscious actions with big implications -- Intelligence: the thinking brain and consciousness. Understanding intelligence, consciousness, and emotions -- How the brain processes thoughts -- The executive brain -- Learning and memory -- Developing and modifying brain circuits: plasticity -- Neural dysfunctions, mental illness, and drugs that affect the brain -- The part of tens. Ten crucial brain structures -- Ten tricks of neurons that make them do what they do -- Ten amazing facts about the brain -- Ten promising treatments for the future.