The brain / edited by Kenneth Partridge.
Examines what modern science has taught us about the brain and considers what remains to be discovered in current magazine and journal articles.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
H.W. Wilson Co.,
2009.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 81, no. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Structure, functions, and historic approaches to study
- Strange anatomy of the brain / David Bainbridge
- Brainbox
- In our messy, reptilian brains / Sharon Begley
- Mapping the mind: advances in brain-imaging technology
- 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
- Economics of brains / Gregory T. Huang
- 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
- Teenage brain / Nora Underwood
- When does your brain stop making new neurons? / Sharon Begley
- How the brain processes language
- Addressing literacy through neuroscience / Steve Miller and Paula A. Tallal
- Mapping metaphor / Kenneth W. Krause
- Correlation between brain development, language acquisition, and cognition / Leslie Haley Wasserman
- Brains show two sides of language function / Bruce Bower
- Brain and aging
- Disappearing mind / Geoffrey Cowley
- Brain in winter / Sharon Begley
- Upside of aging / Sharon Begley
- Outlook for Alzheimer's disease / Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper
- Neuron killers / Tina Hesman Saey
- Keeping your brain fit / Christine Larson
- "Hard problem": efforts to understand human consciousness
- What makes up my mind? / Joel Achenbach
- Mystery of consciousness / Steven Pinker
- Brains wide shut? / Patricia Churchland
- Is there room for the soul? / Jay Tolson
- Consciousness in the raw / Bruce Bower.