Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works
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ISBN: 0836210433 / Publisher: Andrews and McMeel, June 1996
Explores how the brain learns, how it controls behavior, how it sustains damage and heals itself, and how scientists are searching for ways to keep it young and healthy
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Looks at the latest findings in brain research, based on interviews with some 300 researchers and on the author's Pulitzer Prize winning series of articles in the Chicago Tribune . Explains in easy-to-understand language how nature builds the brain, how it develops, how it undergoes constant physical changes in response to environment, and how it can be damaged by trauma, alcohol, and environmental threats. Discusses how aggression is triggered in the brain, and ways to keep the brain healthy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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