Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your BrainIn 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. |
Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
SKULL MARROW First Thoughts about the Mind | 11 |
SERVANTS AND GUARDS OF THE GREAT KING The Classical Brain | 18 |
THE BRAIN AS GEOGRAPHY Maps of the Mind | 28 |
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT The Development of a Brain | 38 |
LEONARDOS BUTTERFLY The Spinal Cord | 61 |
INTERLUDE The Worm that Turned Over | 82 |
A FOREST SO DENSE The New Anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal | 93 |
STINKIN AND THINKIN The Origins of the Nose | 179 |
INTO THE MARRIAGE CHAMBER FOR SOME SEXY SYNESTHESIA Entering the Forebrain | 192 |
WHY IS D BROWN? When the Senses Mix | 212 |
INTERLUDE Shrapnel and Magnets | 221 |
THE BRAIN AS ENGINEERING Wilder Penfield and the Cortex | 229 |
THE APPARENT DISORDER OF THE CEREBRAL JUNGLE What Is in Those Hemispheres? | 243 |
THE SEAHORSE AND THE ALMOND Memory Learning and Fear | 275 |
THE HARD QUESTION Brain Size and Consciousness | 290 |
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Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain David Bainbridge Limited preview - 2009 |
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain David Bainbridge No preview available - 2009 |