The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders
The Human Brain Book is an insightful guide that combines neuroscience research with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the brain, covering anatomy, inner workings, and mysteries. This book explores how the brain sends messages, influences thoughts and emotions, and performs unconscious actions. It delves into topics like genius, behavior, vision, hearing, and dreams. Disorders affecting the brain are also explained in clear terms.
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The Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals. It combines the latest findings from the field of neuroscience with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations and imaging techniques to provide an incomparable insight into every facet of the brain. Layer by layer it reveals the fascinating details of this remarkable structure covering all the key anatomy and delving into the inner workings of the mind unlocking its many mysteries and helping you to understand what's going on in those millions of little gray and white cells.
Tricky concepts are illustrated and explained with clarity and precision as The Human Brain Book looks at how the brain sends messages to the rest of the body, how we think and feel, how we perform unconscious actions (for example, breathing), explores the nature of genius, asks why we behave the way we do, explains how we see and hear things, and how and why we dream. Physical and psychological disorders affecting the brain and nervous system are clearly illustrated and summarized in easy-to-understand terms.
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Subject: Science
Brand: DK Books
Publisher Date: 01/08/2019
Author: Rita Carter
Dimensions: 10.06 x 8.38
UPC: 9781465479549
Pages: 264
