Neuroscience for dummies
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Wiley,
Mississauga, Ont. :
c2012.
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About
Neuroscience For Dummies gives the reader an understanding of the brain's structure and function, as well as a look into the relationship between memory, learning, emotions, and the brain. Providing insight into the biology of mental illness and a glimpse at future treatments and applications of neuroscience.
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- ISBN: 1118086864
- ISBN: 9781118086865
- Physical Description: xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.print
- Publisher: Mississauga, Ont. : Wiley, c2012.
- General Note: Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.