Your mind-bending brain and nifty nervous system
Subtitle: find out how your body works!
By: Paul Mason
Series: Your brilliant body
Publisher: Wayland
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780750292399; 9780750292382
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Brain; Juvenile literature; Nervous system; Human body
Description: Packed with amazing facts and eye-grabbing images, Your Mind-Bending Brain and Nifty Nervous System takes a different approach to teaching readers about the brain and nervous system. Every spread opens with an amazing science fact about the human body - for example - Your amazing brain generates enough electricity on its own to power a light-bulb! - then goes on to explain how scientifically this is possible. By exploring these attention-grabbing sections, readers will build up their understanding of how the brain and nervous system work. Detailed diagrams and amazing images illustrate the lively, factual text. Your Mind-Bending Brain and Nifty Nervous System looks at the structure of the brain and what the different parts of the brain are responsible for. How are memories formed? How do we learn? How does your brain control your body functions?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ages 8-12.