The Great Brain Book (Hardcover)

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Brain Itself

Chapter 2. Why Do You Need a Brain?
The First Brains
The Brain - Front and Center

Chapter 3. A History of That Thing Inside Your Head
The Egyptians - Scooping Out the Brain
The Ancient Greeks - The Great Thinking Brains
Herophilus and Galen - Looking at the Body and the Brain
Outline the Brain - Andreas Vesalius and Thomas Willis
Phineas Gage - And the Spike in Brain Activity
Paul Broca - Finding the Key in a Man Named Tan
Carl Wernicke - Targeting the Center of Language
Eduarl Hitzig and Gustav Fritsch - Right Brain Controls Left Side
Wilder Penfield - The Persistence of Memory
Hans Berger and the EEG

Chapter 4. The Controller and Connections
The Brain Box - The Protective Cover
The Menings
Cerebrospinal Fluid
The Human Brain - The Cerebrum
Lobes
The White Matter (Inner Brain)
The Primitive Brain
The Limbic System - The Mammalian Brain
Hippocampus - And Memory
Amygdala - The Emotional Center
Olfactory System
Thalamus and Hypothalamus
Pituitary and Pineal Glands
The Cerebellum
The Brain Stem - The Reptilian Brain
The Spinal Cord
Blood in Your Brain

Chapter 5. Neurons : One Hundred Trillion Connections
The Electrical Storm
Structure
Function
Nerves and the Brain

Chapter 6. The Care and Feeding of Your Brain
Learning and Memory
Right Brain Versus Left Brain
Training Your Brain
- Mnemonics
- Memory Tricks
- Memory Palace
The Thingking Brain Versus the Emotional Brain
- Fear
- Phobias
- Intelligence
Sleep
- Stages of Sleep
- Dreams

Chapter 7. Treating the Brain... Which Can Be a Bit Ghastly at Times
EEG, CAT, PET, MRI, MEG

Chapter 8. The Strange Brain
Banging Your Head
When the Brain Loses Control
Neurotransmission and Treatment

Chapter 9. The Future fo the Brain
Brain Transplants
Thinking Machines
Brain on a Chip and Brain Implants

Author's Note
Resources
Index