Getting your head around the brain. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Amanda Ellison.
• Authors: Ellison, Amanda
• Contents: The link between mind and brain and how we study the brain; The nervous system and the role of the brain in it; Sensation: how we gather the information that we act upon Vision, Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell; Movement: how we act upon the information we have gathered; How the brain develops throughout life; Behaviour; a) Behaviours automatically controlled, e.g. eating, drinking, sleeping; b) Behaviours we can control, e.g. sex; Emotion and how this affects our behaviour; Learning and Memory; Thinking and consciousness; Conclusions
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: Neuroscience; Neuropsychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137272492
• Related ISBNs: 113727249X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.