The Everything Guide to the Human Brain by Hatfield, Rudolph C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents The Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Your Brain Introduction Chapter 1: A Quick View

The Two Different Nervous Systems How the Central Nervous System Works Mixing Chemicals and Electricity: The Neuron Other Types of Cells in the CNS The Spinal Cord Neuroimaging and Other Ways of Looking at the Brain

Chapter 2: Dividing Up the Brain

North-South-In-Out: Directional Descriptions Forebrain, Midbrain, Hindbrain What’s with All the Wrinkles? Gyri and Sulci Lateralization: Left Brain or Right Brain Cortical and Subcortical Areas Lobes of Fun Cover My Brain Please: The Meninges Holes in Your Brain: The Ventricles Important Brain Structures

Chapter 3: Can You Believe Your Eyes? The Process of Vision

The Principles of Sensory Organization The Process of Seeing What Was That Shape? How You See Motion How You Perceive Color Impaired Vision and Visual Illusions

Chapter 4: Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Language and Your Brain

How You Heard That The Process of Speaking How You Read The Effect of Brain Damage on Language

Chapter 5: Do You Feel Me? The Sense of Touch

How You Obtain Balance: Vestibular Sensation Touch Me: Somatosensation Skin to the Brain What a Pain: Pain Perception Pain Control

Chapter 6: Chemicals in Your Brain: Taste and Smell

How Many Different Tastes Are There? The Brain and Taste That Smell Went Right to Your Brain Olfactory Projections Pheromones

Chapter 7: You Move Me

Muscles and Their Movements Units of Movement The Basal Ganglia The Cerebellum How Your Cortex Moves You Programs in Your Head Movement Disorders

Chapter 8: Hot, Hungry, and Thirsty: Internal Body States

Homeostasis Temperature Regulation Thirst and Your Brain Hunger Eating Disorders

Chapter 9: Sex

Sex Hormones Hormones and Reproductive Behavior in Females and Males Development and Puberty Determinants of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Thinking about Sex Sex Offenders

Chapter 10: The Sleeping Brain

Bodily Rhythms Neural Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms Stages of Sleep The Dreaming Brain The Functions of Sleep Disorders of Sleep

Chapter 11: You Have to Grow Up Sometime: The Developing Brain

Growth and Brain Differentiation The Old Nature Versus Nurture Debate Vulnerabilities Brain Plasticity When Older Is Not Always Better

Chapter 12: The Big Cheese: The Executive Brain

Control Let’s Be Up Front about This: The Frontal Lobes Do You Have a Plan? The Brain and Planning Learning from Brain Damage Can You Change That? Correcting Errors Where Has Free Will Gone?

Chapter 13: Say That Again? Attention and the Brain

The Anatomy of Attention The Prestriate Area of the Brain and Attention Working Memory: Who Does It Work For? Why Can’t You Pay Attention? Disorders of Attention

Chapter 14: Who Was the Fifth President? Learning and Memory

Learning Long-Term Potentiation Types of Memory The Biological Foundations of Memory Forgetting Learning Disabilities, Brain Damage, and Memory

Chapter 15: The Emotional Brain

Why Do You Have Emotions? Attack and Escape Where in the Brain Are Emotions? Structures of the Brain and Emotion Stress and Emotions How Stress Affects the Immune System Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Chapter 16: Don’t Be So Smart: Intelligence and the Brain

What Is Intelligence? Are There Different Types of Intelligence? Components of Intelligence IQ and Intelligence How Are Consciousness and Intelligence Related? Unconscious Processing

Chapter 17: Well, They Have a Great Personality

What Is Personality? How Personality Is Measured Phineas Gage: The Classic Study Nature Versus Nurture and Personality Personality Disorders Can You Rewire Your Brain or Change Your Personality?

Chapter 18: The Addicted Brain

Addiction (Dependence) The Reward System Brain Pathways Involved in Addiction Neurotransmitters and Addiction Why Can’t They Stop? What Treatments Really Work? Is Addiction a Disease?

Chapter 19: Brain-Related Disorders

Depression and Mood Disorders Schizophrenia Autism Dementia Stroke

Chapter 20: Some Brain Myths That You May Still Believe

You Only Use 10 Percent of Your Brain Repressed Memories Subliminal Persuasion Listening to Mozart When You Are Pregnant Can Make Your Kids Smarter Some People Have ESP

Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: References Acknowledgments Copyright