false 2397353 1 <p> In his latest book, David Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function. He shows that for hundreds of years, natural philosophers have been interested in the gray matter inside our skulls, but all they had to go on was its structure. Almost every knob, protrusion, canal, and crease was named before anyone had an inkling of what it did--a kind of biological terra incognita with many weird and wonderful names: the zonules of Zinn, the obex ("the most Scrabble-friendly word in all of neuroanatomy"), the aqueduct of Sylvius, the tract of Goll. </p><p> This uniquely accessible approach lays out what is known about the brain (its structure), what we can hope to know (its function), and what we may never know (its evolution). Along the way Bainbridge tells lots of wonderful stories about the "two pounds of blancmange" within our skulls, and tells them all with wit and style. </p> 2404371 28 2 2008 Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain total:11|5:4|4:3|3:3|2:1|1:0| 11 43 34 6 2397353 0674026101 9780674026100 11 6 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2397353.Beyond_the_Zonules_of_Zinn_A_Fantastic_Journey_Through_Your_Brain 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 11:41:48 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 11:53:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2397353 0674026101 9780674026100 11 6 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2397353.Beyond_the_Zonules_of_Zinn_A_Fantastic_Journey_Through_Your_Brain 3 1 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 18:51:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 20:34:22 -0700 2008 2397353 0674026101 9780674026100 11 6 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2397353.Beyond_the_Zonules_of_Zinn_A_Fantastic_Journey_Through_Your_Brain 4 0 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 05:18:54 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:01:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2397353 0674026101 9780674026100 11 6 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2397353.Beyond_the_Zonules_of_Zinn_A_Fantastic_Journey_Through_Your_Brain 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:51:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:54:57 -0700 2009 2397353 0674026101 9780674026100 11 6 3.91 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2397353.Beyond_the_Zonules_of_Zinn_A_Fantastic_Journey_Through_Your_Brain 5 0 false Sun Aug 03 08:53:48 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 09:03:07 -0700 2008
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