What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level of an individual neuron? With renowned brain researcher Susan Greenfield as your guide, here is your chance to gain a bird's eye view of the human brain--and to learn more about what the brain is, how it works, what happens when one part of the brain is made dysfunctional through stroke or accident, how brain mood-modifying drugs find their targets.In a particularly fascinating chapter, Greenfield surveys for us how a brain is built and then takes us...
What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level of an ...
>Viele Menschen sind fasziniert vom Gehirn. Doch sie haben kaum eine direkte Moglichkeit, auch nur die grundlegendsten und wohldokumentierten Tatsachen zu entdecken. ... Dieses Buch wird, so hoffe ich, dazu beitragen, die Neugier und die Wertschatzung fur die aufregendste Struktur im Universum zu fordern.
>Viele Menschen sind fasziniert vom Gehirn. Doch sie haben kaum eine direkte Moglichkeit, auch nur die grundlegendsten und wohldokumentierten Tatsache...
As our knowledge of the brain grows beyond the wildest expectations, the time is ripe to explore pleasure in terms of workings of the mind. Pleasure is the most marvellous sensation, the most prized state, but also, properly understood, the most basic type of consciousness. Understanding pleasure suggests new ways of understanding consciousness itself - by looking at the neurological characte of our most primitive emotions.
As our knowledge of the brain grows beyond the wildest expectations, the time is ripe to explore pleasure in terms of workings of the mind. Pleasure i...
