Neuroscience For Dummies
Author:Frank Amthor
Edition:3rd Edition
Core concepts of neuroscience are presented in an accessible way, explaining how the brain and nervous system control behavior, perception, and cognition. It covers neurons, sensory systems, movement, learning, memory, and emotions, while also exploring brain plasticity, mental illness, and emerging treatments, making complex neural processes easier to understand.

Chapters
- Chapter 1: A Quick Trip through the Nervous System→
- Chapter 2: All about the Brain and Spinal Cord→
- Chapter 3: Understanding How Neurons Work→
- Chapter 4: Feeling Your Way: The Skin Senses→
- Chapter 5: Looking at Vision→
- Chapter 6: Sounding Off: The Auditory System→
- Chapter 7: Odors and Taste→
- Chapter 8: Movement Basics→
- Chapter 9: Coordinating Things More: The Spinal Cord and Pathways→
- Chapter 10: Planning and Executing Actions→
- Chapter 11: Unconscious Actions with Big Implications→
- Chapter 12: Understanding Intelligence, Consciousness, and Emotions→
- Chapter 13: How the Brain Processes Thoughts→
- Chapter 14: The Executive Brain→
- Chapter 15: Learning and Memory→
- Chapter 16: Developing and Modifying Brain Circuits: Plasticity→
- Chapter 17: Neural Dysfunctions, Mental Illness, and Drugs That Affect the Brain→
- Chapter 18: Ten or So Crucial Brain Structures→
- Chapter 19: Ten Tricks of Neurons That Make Them Do What They Do→
- Chapter 20: Ten Promising Treatments for the Future→
Related Books
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. Sapolsky · 1st Edition→
- Behavioral NeuroscienceS. Marc Breedlove, Neil V. Watson · 8th Edition→
- Cellular Physiology of Nerve and MuscleGary G. Matthews · 4th Edition→
- Clinical NeuropsychologyKenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein · 4th Edition→
- Introduction to NeuropsychologyJ. Graham Beaumont · 2nd Edition→
- Sensation and PerceptionJeremy Wolfe, Keith Kluender, Dennis Levi, Linda Bartoshuk, Rachel Herz, Roberta Klatzky, Daniel Merfeld · 6th Edition→