Sending messages
By: Pip Morgan
Series: How your body works; How your body works
Publisher: Franklin Watts; W.B. Saunders Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781445100197; 9781926722658
Subjects: Nervous system; Juvenile literature; Neural transmission
Description: Your body's nervous system is fizzing with electricity. It sends messages and instructions to every part of your body and collects information from around you. Your nervous system also controls the hormones that travel in your blood and make chemical changes throughout your body. Sending mesages describes how these amazing systems work. It shows how your body's nerves collect and send information and the part played by your brain. It explains how hormones work and how they control so much of your body's activity. And it outlines what can happen if these complex systems stop working properly." --B.cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Messages and commands; title: All about nerves; title: A vast network; title: Your spinal cord; title: Reflex actions; title: Your brain is boss; title: A map of your brain; title: Brain waves; title: Ouch! that hurts!; title: Chemical messengers; title: The master gland; title: How hormones work; title: Fight or flight.