The Everything Guide to the Human Brain

Name: The Everything Guide to the Human Brain | Journey Through the Parts of the Brain, Discover How It Works, and Improve Your Brain's Health
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Journey Through the Parts of the Brain, Discover How It Works, and Improve Your Brain's Health

Rudolph C. Hatfield(Autor*in)

Everything (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 18. Mai 2013

304 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
The Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Your Brain
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Quick View
The Two Different Nervous Systems
How the Central Nervous System Works
Mixing Chemicals and Electricity: The Neuron
Other Types of Cells in the CNS
The Spinal Cord
Neuroimaging and Other Ways of Looking at the Brain
Chapter 2: Dividing Up the Brain
North-South-In-Out: Directional Descriptions
Forebrain, Midbrain, Hindbrain
What's with All the Wrinkles? Gyri and Sulci
Lateralization: Left Brain or Right Brain
Cortical and Subcortical Areas
Lobes of Fun
Cover My Brain Please: The Meninges
Holes in Your Brain: The Ventricles
Important Brain Structures
Chapter 3: Can You Believe Your Eyes? The Process of Vision
The Principles of Sensory Organization
The Process of Seeing
What Was That Shape?
How You See Motion
How You Perceive Color
Impaired Vision and Visual Illusions
Chapter 4: Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Language and Your Brain
How You Heard That
The Process of Speaking
How You Read
The Effect of Brain Damage on Language
Chapter 5: Do You Feel Me? The Sense of Touch
How You Obtain Balance: Vestibular Sensation
Touch Me: Somatosensation
Skin to the Brain
What a Pain: Pain Perception
Pain Control
Chapter 6: Chemicals in Your Brain: Taste and Smell
How Many Different Tastes Are There?
The Brain and Taste
That Smell Went Right to Your Brain
Olfactory Projections
Pheromones
Chapter 7: You Move Me
Muscles and Their Movements
Units of Movement
The Basal Ganglia
The Cerebellum
How Your Cortex Moves You
Programs in Your Head
Movement Disorders
Chapter 8: Hot, Hungry, and Thirsty: Internal Body States
Homeostasis
Temperature Regulation
Thirst and Your Brain
Hunger
Eating Disorders
Chapter 9: Sex
Sex Hormones
Hormones and Reproductive Behavior in Females and Males
Development and Puberty
Determinants of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Thinking about Sex
Sex Offenders
Chapter 10: The Sleeping Brain
Bodily Rhythms
Neural Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms
Stages of Sleep
The Dreaming Brain
The Functions of Sleep
Disorders of Sleep
Chapter 11: You Have to Grow Up Sometime: The Developing Brain
Growth and Brain Differentiation
The Old Nature Versus Nurture Debate
Vulnerabilities
Brain Plasticity
When Older Is Not Always Better
Chapter 12: The Big Cheese: The Executive Brain
Control
Let's Be Up Front about This: The Frontal Lobes
Do You Have a Plan? The Brain and Planning
Learning from Brain Damage
Can You Change That? Correcting Errors
Where Has Free Will Gone?
Chapter 13: Say That Again? Attention and the Brain
The Anatomy of Attention
The Prestriate Area of the Brain and Attention
Working Memory: Who Does It Work For?
Why Can't You Pay Attention?
Disorders of Attention
Chapter 14: Who Was the Fifth President? Learning and Memory
Learning
Long-Term Potentiation
Types of Memory
The Biological Foundations of Memory
Forgetting
Learning Disabilities, Brain Damage, and Memory
Chapter 15: The Emotional Brain
Why Do You Have Emotions?
Attack and Escape
Where in the Brain Are Emotions?
Structures of the Brain and Emotion
Stress and Emotions
How Stress Affects the Immune System
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 16: Don't Be So Smart: Intelligence and the Brain
What Is Intelligence?
Are There Different Types of Intelligence?
Components of Intelligence
IQ and Intelligence
How Are Consciousness and Intelligence Related?
Unconscious Processing
Chapter 17: Well, They Have a Great Personality
What Is Personality?
How Personality Is Measured
Phineas Gage: The Classic Study
Nature Versus Nurture and Personality
Personality Disorders
Can You Rewire Your Brain or Change Your Personality?
Chapter 18: The Addicted Brain
Addiction (Dependence)
The Reward System
Brain Pathways Involved in Addiction
Neurotransmitters and Addiction
Why Can't They Stop?
What Treatments Really Work?
Is Addiction a Disease?
Chapter 19: Brain-Related Disorders
Depression and Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Autism
Dementia
Stroke
Chapter 20: Some Brain Myths That You May Still Believe
You Only Use 10 Percent of Your Brain
Repressed Memories
Subliminal Persuasion
Listening to Mozart When You Are Pregnant Can Make Your Kids Smarter
Some People Have ESP
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: References
Acknowledgments
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