The brain /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
H.W. Wilson,
2009.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 81, no. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Structure, functions, and historic approaches to study
- The strange anatomy of the brain / David Bainbridge
- Brainbox
- In our messy, reptilian brains / Sharon Begley
- II. Mapping the mind: advances in brain-imaging technology
- The new brain / Richard Restak
- Unlocking the secrets of the brain: part 1 ; Unlocking the secrets of the brain: part 2 / Tabitha M. Powledge
- MRI: a window on the brain / Paul Raeburn
- The economics of brains / Gregory T. Huang
- III. Works in progress: brain development from infancy to adulthood
- Shaping the brains of tomorrow / Ross A. Thompson
- How the arts develop the young brain / David Sousa
- The teenage brain / Nora Underwood
- When does your brain stop making new neurons? / Sharon Begley
- IV. How the brain processes language
- Addressing literacy through neuroscience / Steve Miller and Paula A. Tallal
- Mapping metaphor / Kenneth W. Krause
- The correlation between brain development, language acquisition, and cognition / Leslie Haley Wasserman
- Brains show two sides of language function / Bruce Bower
- V. The brain and aging
- The disappearing mind / Geoffrey Cowley
- The brain in winter ; The upside of aging / Sharon Begley
- The outlook for Alzheimer's disease / Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper
- Neuron killers / Tina Hesman Saey
- Keeping your brain fit / Christine Larson
- VI. The "hard problem": efforts to understand human consciousness
- What makes up my mind? / Joel Achenbach
- The mystery of consciousness / Steven Pinker
- Brains wide shut? / Patricia Churchland
- Is there room for the soul? / Jay Tolson
- Consciousness in the raw / Bruce Bower.