What makes you tick?
Subtitle: the brain in plain English
By: Thomas B. Czerner
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780471371007; 9780471209904
Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuropsychology; Brain; Neuropsychologie; Popular Works; Neurowetenschappen
Description: An introduction to brain research that explains how the brain works in relatively nontechnical language.
Notes: Includes index.

Notes: p. 213-219.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploring a recently discovered galaxy: off to see the wizard; title: Stardust and the music of the neuron: impulses and how they move you; title: Ghost in the machine: elusive homunculus; title: Photon and your brain: your quiet conversation with nature; title: Intelligence of the neuron: your life depends on the decisions of individual cells; title: Moving parts of your brain: photon illuminates the Lilliputian machinery of the neuron; title: Yellow brick road: to your biological clock and internal maps of the universe; title: Emerald city: secrets of the most complex functions of the brain; title: Beyond the yellow brick road: brain is a supercomputer and much, much more; title: Shape of an idea: neuronal ensembles; title: Pure wizardry: matching your behavior to your situation; title: Your personal chemistry: from molecules to moods and from genes to behavior; title: Final chord.