Neuroscience for dummies / by Frank Amthor, PhD. -- 2nd edition. -- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2016. – (50.59 /A528 /2nd ed.)

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Introducing the Nervous System

CHAPTER 1: A Quick Trip through the Nervous System

CHAPTER 2: All about the Brain and Spinal Cord

CHAPTER 3: Understanding How Neurons Work

Part 2: Translating the Internal and External World through Your Senses

CHAPTER 4: Feeling Your Way: The Skin Senses

CHAPTER 5: Looking at Vision

CHAPTER 6: Sounding Off: The Auditory System

CHAPTER 7: Odors and Taste

Part 3: Moving Right Along: Motor Systems

CHAPTER 8: Movement Basics

CHAPTER 9: Coordinating Things More: The Spinal Cord and Pathways

CHAPTER 10: Planning and Executing Actions

CHAPTER 11: Unconscious Actions with Big Implications

Part 4: Intelligence: The Thinking Brain and Consciousness

CHAPTER 12: Understanding intelligence, Consciousness, and Emotions

CHAPTER 13: HOW the Brain Processes Thoughts

CHAPTER 14: The Executive Brain

CHAPTER 15: Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 16: Developing and Modifying Brain Circuits: Plasticity

CHAPTER 17: Neural Dysfunctions, Mental Illness, and Drugs That Affect the Brain

Part 5: The Part of Tens

CHAPTER 18: Ten (Or So) Crucial Brain Structures

CHAPTER 19: Ten Tricks of Neurons That Make Them Do What They Do

CHAPTER 20: Ten Amazing Facts about the Brain

CHAPTER 21: Ten Promising Treatments for the Future

Index