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Informationen zum Autor Moheb Costandi is a freelance writer with a background in neuroscience. His work has appeared in Nature , Science , New Scientist , Scientific American and The Guardian , among other publications. He is also the author of Body Am I (MIT Press, 2022) and Neuroplasticity (MIT Press, 2016). He is based in London. Klappentext Condenses all we know about the human brain and how it works into a series of introductions to the most important concepts. Costandi writes for the "Guardian" and "Scientific American". Zusammenfassung The brain and how it works: an introduction to the most important concepts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: The nervous system; The neuron doctrine; Glial cells; The nervous impulse; Synaptic transmission; Sensory perception; Movement; Topographic mapping; Specialized brain regions; Brain asymmetry. YOUR BRAIN! YOUR SELF: Mirror neurons; The connectome; Embodied cognition; Bodily awareness; Free will; Sex differences; Personality; Brain-damaged patients; The theatre of consciousness; Consciousness disorders. THOUGHT PROCESSES: Attention; Working memory; Learning and memory; Mental time travel; Memory (re)consolidation; Decision-making; Reward and motivation; Language processing; Executive function. THE DYNAMIC BRAIN: Cell migration and axon pathfinding; Cell death; Synaptic pruning; Neuroplasticity; Adolescence; Stress and the brain; The ageing brain; Neurodegeneration. BREAKING FROM DOGMA: Adult neurogenesis; Epigenetics; Default mode; Brain-wave oscillations; Prediction error. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES: Neural stem cells; Brain stimulation; Cognitive enhancement; Brain scanning; Decoding; Brain-computer interfacing; Neuroscience and the law; Neuroethics. Glossary. Index.
