BEYOND THE ZONULES OF ZINN: A FANTASTIC JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR BRAIN
Written by David Bainbridge
Published by Harvard University Press
in 2008
ISBN: 9780674026100
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BEYOND THE ZONULES OF ZINN: A FANTASTIC JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR BRAIN
Written by David Bainbridge.
Stock no. 2137787
Circa.
2008.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
American edition. An otherworldy journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Black cloth spine with silver title; red boards. B/w diagrams. viii and 338 pages including index. ISBN: 9780674026100. Foxing and minor marks to outer page edges. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is in excellent condition.
Front cover
Contents
- Part I. A Grand Tour of Terra Incognita: The Spinal Cord
- Skull Marrow: First thoughts about the mind
- Servants and Guards of the Great King: The classical brain
- The Brain as Geography: Maps of the mind
- A River Runs Through it: The development of a brain
- Leonardo's Butterfly: The spinal cord
- Interlude: The worm that turned (over)
- Part II. An Assault on the Senses: The brain stem
- A Forest So Dense: The new anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- The Little Fish Who Never Grew Up: The origins of the ear
- The Brain as Archaeology: The hindbrain
- Beauty is in the Eye of the, er, Squid: The origins of the eye
- Hillocks, Buttocks, Blindsight, and Black Stuff: The midbrain
- Stinkin' and Thinkin': The origins of the nose
- Into the Marriage Chamber for Some Sexy Synthesia: Entering the forebrain
- Why is "D" Brown?: When the senses mix
- Interlude: Shrapnel and magnets
- Part III. Where All the Mind May be Found?: The Cortex
- The Brain as Engineering: Wilder Penfield and the cortex
- The Apparent Disorder of the Cerebral Jungle: What is in those hemispheres?
- The Seahorse and the Almond: Memory, learning, and fear
- The Hard Question: Brain size and consciousness
- Epilogue: No turning Back