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Neuroscience basics : a guide to the brain's involvement in everyday activities / Jennifer L. Larimore. -- London ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier/AP, Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, c2017 .—(59.597/L323) |
Contents
Preface
1. How
to Build a Human Brain
Summary
1.1 What Is the Brain?
1.2 Overview of Brain Development
1.3 Brain Development Steps
1.4 What Purpose Does Human Childhood Serve? Back
to the Sandbox
1.5 Organization of the Nervous System
1.6 What Happens When the Brain Is Damaged or Development
Doesn't Go According to the Plan?
1.7 Conclusions
Bibliography
2. 6:00
a.m. Time to Start the Day! How Our Senses Help Us Wake up!
Summary
2.1 Ceils 101
2.2 History of Cell Theory
2.3 Support Ceils
2.4 Thinking Ceils (Neurons)
2.5 The Senses and Their Cells
2.6 What Happens When Sensation is Altered?
2.7 What Happens When Ceils Do Not Function
Properly?
2.8 Conclusion
Bibliography
3. 6:35
a.m. Time to Run--How Does the Brain Tell Our Muscles to Move?
Summary
3.1 How Does the Brain Move the Body?
3.2 Background Information for the Action
Potential
3.3 Chemistry and Unbalanced Ions
3.4 History of the Action Potential: Giant
Squids!
3.5 Chemical Messages Associated With Exercise
3.6 What Happens When the Message for Movement
Isn't Communicated?
3.7 Conclusion
Bibliography
4. 9:00
a.m. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Oh Wait, No, it's Just Work!
Summary
4.1 Stress
4.2 Background Information About
Neurotransmitters
4.3 Types of Chemical Messages (Neurotransmitters)
4.4 Lock and Key
4.5 Stopping the Chemical Messages
4.6 Types of Communications
4.7 What Happens When Chemical Messages Are Messed
Up?
4.8 Conclusion
Bibliography
5. 10:00
a.m. Staff Meeting About the New Thing and How We Have to Learn It to Do Our
Job!
Summary
5.1 Types of Learning and Memory
5.2 Moving the Channels
5.3 Learning and Memory Research
5.4 How Aging Impacts Learning and Memory
5.5 What Disorders Impact Learning and Memory?
5.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
6. 11:30
a.m. Hanger: (n) Hunger-Induced Anger
Summary
6.1 Hunger
6.2 Blood-Brain Barrier
6.3 Brain Food
6.4 Why Does the Brain Want Us to Eat?
6.5 What Happens When There Is Too Little Blood
or Too Much Dopamine?
6.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
7. 1:00
p.m. Mid-Afternoon Blues
Summary
7.1 Human Moods and Human Behavior
7.2 Taxonomy--The Classification of Organisms
7.3 Human Evolution
7.4 What Were the Driving Forces for Human Brain
Evolution?
7.5 Human Emotions, Behaviors, and Moods
7.6 Disorders With Disrupted Emotions
7.7 Conclusion
Bibliography
8. 10:00
p.m. Counting Sheep
Summary
8.1 Biorhythms
8.2 Circadian Rhythms
8.3 Sleep
8.4 Dreams
8.5 Sleep Research Implications--Neuroethics
8.6 What Happens When Sleep Is Disrupted?
8.7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
