"The Brain Book combines the latest image technology with easy-to-understand authoritative text. Written by an international team of medical experts on brain science, it covers all aspects of brain function, from development and disorders, to the nature of consciousness, through to the aging brain and brain diseases. Topics include brain chemistry, memory, the teenage brain, illusions and hallucinations, music and the brain, sleep and wakefulness, anesthetics, degenerative brain disease and much more. The book is organized into nine sections: Structure and Function Development The Senses Movement and Actions The Social Brain Mind, Consciousness, Mood and Psychosis Brain Plasticity, Injury and Repair Drugs and the Brain Aging and Disease."-- Provided by publisher.

"A Firefly book"--Title page verso. "Revised and updated"--Cover. Includes index.