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How the brain works the facts visually explained
223 pages
colour illustrations.
Cover subtitle: The facts visually explained. Contents include: The physical brain -- Brain functions and the senses -- Communication -- Memory, learning, and thinking -- Consciousness and the self -- The brain of the future -- Disorders.
Summary: How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. Moving on to function, it explains how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication. There's also a guide to the brain's disorders, including physical problems, such as tumours and strokes, and psychological and functional disorders, ranging from autism to schizophrenia.