Neurobiology For Dummies. Frank Amthor

Pulling Your Weight: How Muscle Cells Contract Controlling Muscle Contraction Knowing Where Your Limb Is Located Reflexing without Reflecting Exercise and Aging Chapter 6: The Spinal Cord and the Autonomic Nervous System Segmenting the Spine Spying on the Spinal Cord Feeling and Acting: The Peripheral Nervous System Correcting Errors: The Cerebellum Fighting or Fleeing: The Autonomic Nervous System Chapter 7: The Busy Brain: Brainstem, Limbic System, Hypothalamus, and Reticular Formation The Brainstem: Medulla, Pons, Midbrain Counting the Cranial Nerves Controlling Your Motives: The Limbic System Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System: The Hypothalamus Reading Up on the Reticular Formation Chapter 8: Generating Behavior: Basal Ganglia, Thalamus, Motor Cortex, and Frontal Cortex The Basal Ganglia and Its Nuclei Controlling Muscles: The Primary Motor Cortex Coordinating Muscle Groups: Central Control The Thalamus: Gateway to the Neocortex Focusing on Goals with the Prefrontal Cortex Knowing, or Not Knowing, Who’s In Control Chapter 9: Topping It Off: The Neocortex Looking Inside the Skull: The Neocortex and Its Lobes Getting to the Brain You Have Today: The Neocortex versus Your Reptilian Brain Making Decisions: The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Doing the Right Thing Seeing Both Sides: The Left and Right Hemispheres Gender and the Brain

      7  Part III: Perceiving the World, Thinking, Learning, and Remembering Chapter 10: Looking at Vision and Hearing Imaging and Capturing Light: Vision Joining the Nervous System: Photoreceptor Output Sending the Message to the Brain Fanning Out in the Occipital Lobe Streaming the Message to the Temporal and Parietal Lobes Listening In: Capturing Sound Waves Channeling Sounds to the Brain Losing Hearing Balancing via the Vestibular System: “Hearing” the Fluid Sloshing in Your Head Chapter 11: Feeling, Smelling, and Tasting Getting in Touch with the Skin Recognizing What We Touch at Somatosensory Cortex Sniffing Out the World around You Tasting Basics: Sweet, Sour, Salt, and Bitter Receptors Tasting with the Brain Monitoring Internal Body Functions with Internal Chemoreceptors Chapter 12: Memory and Learning Evolving with Adaptation and Instinct Implicit (Non-Declarative) Memory The Long and Short of It: Immediate versus Permanent Memory Memory Mechanisms and Brain Loci Learning by Changing Synaptic Strengths Forgetting It: Amnesia and Other Memory Loss Improving Your Learning Chapter 13: The Frontal Lobes and Executive Brain Reflexes versus Conscious or Goal-Generated Action Deciding How to Do It: The Frontal Lobes and Action Execution Initiating Action in the Basal Ganglia Coordinating through the Supplementary and Premotor Cortices Mirroring Others: Mirror Neurons Chapter 14: Language, Intelligence, Emotions, and Consciousness Adapting Our Brains for Language Following Thought through Sensory Pathways and Hierarchies Speaking Your Mind: Language, Vision, and the Brain Hemispheres Defining Intelligence Emotional Intelligence Understanding Consciousness

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