When you have a clever thought, do you feel brainy? And when you forget something, do you feel brainless? It's logical to both praise your brain for your strengths and blame it for your shortcomings since, according to Seymour Simon, "Your brain is really what makes you, you" (unpaged).
How does your brain receive messages and respond to them? To find out, readers follow the path of a single message through millions of nerve cells. Using a collection of eye-catching photographs taken with a scanning electron microscope, as well as models, diagrams, and cross-sections, Simon explains how the brain works in concert with other parts of the nervous system.
What are the various parts of the brain? How big are they? Where are they located? What do they do? These questions are addressed in the clear prose we have come to expect from Seymour Simon. For example, when describing the cerebral cortex, Simon gives readers a sense of its size, skillfully bridging the known and the unknown: "If it was flattened out, it would take up as much space as the top of a kitchen table" (unpaged).
While this book introduces a considerable number ol vocabulary words necessary to discuss the brain-beginning with neurons, glial cells, and dendrites and moving on to the cerebrum, the cerebellum, the brain stem and more-the overall message is one of wonder at the power and complexity of the human body. Reminding us that there is still much we don't know about how the brain functions, Simon concludes that we do know that the brain controls all of the systems of our body and is the center of how we think, feel, and remember. That's not bad for something that weighs just three pounds and is about the size of a grapefruit!
When you have a clever thought, do you feel brainy? And when you forget something, do you feel brainless? It's logical to both praise your brain for your strengths and blame it for your shortcomings since, according to Seymour Simon, "Your brain is really what makes you, you" (unpaged).
How does your brain receive messages and respond to them? To find out, readers follow the path of a single message through millions of nerve cells. Using a collection of eye-catching photographs taken with a scanning electron microscope, as well as models, diagrams, and cross-sections, Simon explains how the brain works in concert with other parts of the nervous system.
What are the various parts of the brain? How big are they? Where are they located? What do they do? These questions are addressed in the clear prose we have come to expect from Seymour Simon. For example, when describing the cerebral cortex, Simon gives readers a sense of its size, skillfully bridging the known and the unknown: "If it was flattened out, it would take up as much space as the top of a kitchen table" (unpaged).
While this book introduces a considerable number ol vocabulary words necessary to discuss the brain-beginning with neurons, glial cells, and dendrites and moving on to the cerebrum, the cerebellum, the brain stem and more-the overall message is one of wonder at the power and complexity of the human body. Reminding us that there is still much we don't know about how the brain functions, Simon concludes that we do know that the brain controls all of the systems of our body and is the center of how we think, feel, and remember. That's not bad for something that weighs just three pounds and is about the size of a grapefruit!
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