Creating Mind

How the Brain Works

By: John E. Dowling

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Paperback | 2 February 2000 | Edition Number 1

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What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Consciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language, and intelligence all originate in and depend on the brain. Over the past century, our understanding of the brain has raced forward to reveal many of the mechanisms by which the brain creates mind and consciousness. In this brief introduction to the brain, neuroscientist John Dowling conveys to the general reader the essence and vitality of the field of neuroscience-the progress we are making in understanding how brains work and some of our strategies for studying brain function. Dowling often relates the exciting discoveries of neuroscience to specific examples of brain phenomena such as disease, mental illness, aging, or brain injury, demonstrating how these alterations in brain function cast light on normalcy and describing some of the therapies enabled by our understanding of the brain.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Science Biology, Life Sciences

Preface
The Uniqueness of the Brain	p. 3
Brain Signals	p. 19
Drugs and the Brain	p. 41
Creepy, Crawly Nervous Systems	p. 61
Brain Architecture	p. 81
Vision: Window to the Mind	p. 101
Development and Brain	p. 123
Language, Memory, and the Human Brain	p. 143
The Emotional Brain	p. 161
The Conscious Brain	p. 177
Glossary	p. 191
Further Reading	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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