The Nervous System - Softcover

Nathan, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192821520 ISBN 13: 9780192821522

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

This edition has been revised and updated to take into account recent scholarship in this extensive subject. In our most basic bodily functions, in anything from kicking a ball to writing a symphony, the nervous system is involved. Designed for both student and layman, the book examines such topics as memory and how is it possible to lose it, how we see, and what actually happens in our nose when we smell. From a description of the physiological processes involved, the book goes on to consider questions such as how sensation acquires meaning (in pain, for example), how the nervous system is affected by external influences as various as the earth's magnetic field and a bullet through the brain. Dr Peter Nathan is the author of "The Psychology of Fascism" (1943) and "The Retreat from Reason" (1956).

About this title

From the Back Cover

This work on the nervous system includes such areas as the five senses, and the senses unnoticed by the Greeks; the physics of the nerve impulse; and the anatomical bases of motivation, pain, the endocrine glands and hormones, sensation and perception, and the higher nervous activities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192821520
• ISBN 13: 9780192821522
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400