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The Minder Brain:

How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You From Danger, And Ensures That You Reproduce
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World Scientific, 2007 - 474 Seiten
Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world - all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does - a role of which many of us are hardly aware, but one that has ensured, the survival of mankind. Despite famine, drought, wars, cold, infections and hostile environments, we survive as a species - though not always as individuals. All this time, our brains have been coping with what fate throws at us - a pro.
  

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An excellent (really!) popular introduction to the neurobiology with the emphasis on limbic system and neuropeptides. Read this book! Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Inhalt

Chapter 1 The Brain as a Survival Machine
1
Chapter 2 A Chemical Code for Survival
31
Chapter 3 Serotonin Steroids and Signalling
48
Chapter 4 The Brain and Stress
65
Chapter 5 The WeightWatcher in the Brain
108
Chapter 6 Staying Wet and Salty
162
Chapter 7 Keeping Warm Staying Cool
178
Chapter 8 The Sexual Brain
200
Chapter 9 Bonding Motherhood and Love
249
Chapter 10 The Brain Goes to War
287
Chapter 11 The Rhythm of Life
331
Chapter 12 The Brain Breaks Down
364
Chapter 13 Individuality
420
Author Index
446
Subject Index
453
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TitelThe Minder Brain: How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You From Danger, And Ensures That You Reproduce
AutorHerbert
VerlagWorld Scientific, 2007
ISBN9812771492, 9789812771490
Länge474 Seiten
  
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