[eBook Code] Neuroscience For Dummies (eBook Code, 2nd)

Introduction 1

Part 1: Introducing the Nervous System 5

CHAPTER 1: A Quick Trip through the Nervous System 7

CHAPTER 2: All about the Brain and Spinal Cord 23

CHAPTER 3: Understanding How Neurons Work 51

Part 2: Translating the Internal and External World through Your Senses 69

CHAPTER 4: Feeling Your Way: The Skin Senses 71

CHAPTER 5: Looking at Vision 87

CHAPTER 6: Sounding Off: The Auditory System 109

CHAPTER 7: Odors and Taste 127

Part 3: Moving Right Along: Motor Systems 145

CHAPTER 8: Movement Basics 147

CHAPTER 9: Coordinating Things More: The Spinal Cord and Pathways 159

CHAPTER 10: Planning and Executing Actions 173

CHAPTER 11: Unconscious Actions with Big Implications 191

Part 4: Intelligence: The Thinking Brain and Consciousness 211

CHAPTER 12: Understanding Intelligence, Consciousness, and Emotions 213

CHAPTER 13: How the Brain Processes Thoughts 239

CHAPTER 14: The Executive Brain 259

CHAPTER 15: Learning and Memory 277

CHAPTER 16: Developing and Modifying Brain Circuits: Plasticity 301

CHAPTER 17: Neural Dysfunctions, Mental Illness, and Drugs That Affect the Brain 325

Part 5: The Part of Tens 339

CHAPTER 18: Ten (Or So) Crucial Brain Structures 341

CHAPTER 19: Ten Tricks of Neurons That Make Them Do What They Do 349

CHAPTER 20: Ten Amazing Facts about the Brain 357

CHAPTER 21: Ten Promising Treatments for the Future 367

Index 375