The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (Science Masters Series) - Softcover

Greenfield, Susan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465007260 ISBN 13: 9780465007264

Publisher: Basic Books, 1998

Synopsis

The Human Brain What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and worked your way deeper and deeper, to the level of an individual neuron? This is your chance to see into the human brain, to learn what the brain is, how it works and doesn't work, and how mood-modifying drugs find their targets. Full description

About this title

Book Description:

A guided tour of the final frontier in human understanding: the brain

About the Author:

Susan Greenfield is professor of pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford. She appears regularly on television, radio, and the lecture circuit, and writes regularly for the British press, including a bi-weekly science column for the Independent on Sunday. In 1994, she became the first woman to deliver the BBC's Royal Institution Christmas lectures in 165 years since its inception. She lives in Oxford, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0465007260
• ISBN 13: 9780465007264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176