Includes glossary and index.

Introduction: Questions from the frontier of knowledge / Cordelia Fine -- pt. 1: What is the brain?. The brain: a guided tour -- How the brain works -- Looking at the brain -- What is psychology? -- pt 2: Memory, intelligence and the mind. Behaviour and emotions -- Memory and language -- Intelligence- human and artificial -- The science of sleep -- The mind and consciousness -- pt. 3: What happens when things go wrong?. Illness and therapy -- Mental disorders -- Drugs and the brain -- The ageing brain -- On the cutting edge of brain research.