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Beyond the zonules of Zinn : a fantastic journey through your brain /

Основен автор: Bainbridge, David.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Beyond the zonules of Zinn.
Съдържание:
  • A grand tour of terra incognita : the spinal cord. Skull marrow : first thoughts about the mind
  • Servants and guards of the great king : the classical brain
  • The brain as geography : maps of the mind
  • A river runs through it : the development of a brain
  • Leonardo's butterfly : the spinal cord
  • Interlude : the worm that turned (over).
  • An assault on the senses : the brain stem. A forest so dense : the new anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
  • The little fish who never grew up : the origins of the ear
  • The brain as archaeology : the hindbrain
  • Beauty is in the eye of the, er, squid : the origins of the eye
  • Hillocks, buttocks, blindsight, and black stuff : the midbrain
  • Stinkin' and thinkin' : the origins of the nose
  • Into the marriage chamber for some sexy synesthesia : entering the forebrain
  • Why is "D" brown? : when the senses mix
  • Interlude : shrapnel and magnets.
  • Where all the mind may be found? : the cortex. The brain as engineering : Wilder Penfield and the cortex
  • The apparent disorder of the cerebral jungle : what is in those hemispheres?
  • The seahorse and the almond : memory, learning, and fear
  • The hard question : brain size and consciousness
  • Epilogue : no turning back.