The Scientific American Book of the Brain

by Scientific American (Editor)

Thirty-two essays deal the brain's development, reasoning, general intelligence, memory, learning, behavior, brain diseases, and mental disorders

Genres: Neuroscience, Nonfiction

340 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1980

About the author

Scientific American , as an institutional author, is a popular science magazine founded by Rufus M. Porter and controlled by Nature Publishing Group since autumn, 2008. Mariette DiChristina has been editor-in-chief since December, 2009.

Reviews

[iffi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a lot of interesting things about how brain is developed and works and what happens if some part fails to do it's job. The part anout brain disease is also great.
The cons of this book are:
- the book is from 1998 and sone of the essays are as old as 1991. I would love to read updates - what has been discovered since then.
- some of the essasy are full of biological, chemical and anatomical detail and some parts were quite difficult for me to understand them.

[Echo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great articles, very nice technica the downside is that the book is starting to show its age. But articles from the Damasios, Kandel, Goldman-Rakic, Gazzaniga, LeDoux, Lofthus, Crick and Koch? These people are rock stars in my book, I imagine the ones I'm not familiar with are no slouches either.