Creating Mind: How the Brain Works

Dowling, John E.

ISBN 10: 0393974464 / ISBN 13: 9780393974461

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

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Riassunto:

What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Consciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language, and intelligence all originate in and depend on the brain. Over the past century, our understanding of the brain has raced forward to reveal many of the mechanisms by which the brain creates mind and consciousness. In this brief introduction to the brain, neuroscientist John Dowling conveys to the general reader the essence and vitality of the field of neuroscience-the progress we are making in understanding how brains work and some of our strategies for studying brain function. Dowling often relates the exciting discoveries of neuroscience to specific examples of brain phenomena such as disease, mental illness, aging, or brain injury, demonstrating how these alterations in brain function cast light on normalcy and describing some of the therapies enabled by our understanding of the brain.

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Titolo: Creating Mind: How the Brain Works
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket