Getting your head around the brain

Getting your head around the brain

by Amanda Ellison
Getting your head around the brain

Getting your head around the brain

by Amanda Ellison

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Overview

Have you ever wondered how it's possible to walk down a street, with your thoughts on what you're going to have for lunch? What's telling your legs to move while your mind is on other things? And how are you reading these words right now? The simple answer: it's your brain. Often a complex subject to tackle, this book has been written with the first-time learner in mind to guide the reader through the physiological basis of the brain-behaviour link, exploring such fascinating topics as sensation, memory and emotion.

This book has been designed to offer an easy and comprehensive read for students in need of an introductory text to the various faculties and functions of the brain and an explanation of how these are central to actively producing human behavior. Apt for undergraduate students studying biological psychology and neuroscience wanting to consolidate their understanding of the brain.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350312371
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/05/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

AMANDA ELLISON is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology department at Durham University, UK. She has been teaching Biological Psychology and other neuroscientific topics for 16 years, and is particularly interested in how different parts of the brain talk to each other when we are doing everyday things.
Professor Amanda Ellison is a physiologist and neuroscientist at Durham University. Her wide-ranging research has thrown new light on addiction, pain, and headache in particular, and her work on how different parts of the brain talk to each other has led to new ways to regain functions lost following brain damage. She is the director of an outreach programme targeting schools, patient groups, and the wider public, and is passionate about improving lives through the sharing of scientific and wider academic knowledge. Professor Ellison has commented on various issues in the media most notably the phenomenon of man flu, and whether beer goggles really exist. @ellison_brain

Table of Contents

Engage Your Brain
The Nitty Gritty
What a Sensation
See What I Mean?
Now Hear This
Moving On
How do Your Neurons Grow?
Oh DO Behave
Just Sleep on it
Let's Talk about Sex
Second that Emotion
Memories are Made of This
You'd Better Think
Put it all Together....

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Dr Amanda Ellison has pulled off an amazing feat. This book explains the structure and function of our brain in such a way that neuroanatomy and neurophysiology become not only easy to understand but also fun to read about!' - Dr Erik Corthout, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

'Amanda Ellison has written a delicious book. Savour it with a small spoon or gulp it straight from the source. Hard science made easier; serious stuff made fun; insane and beautiful cartoons. Love it.' - Professor Vincent Walsh, University College London, UK

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