内容摘要 如果你把人脑的头盖骨拿掉,然后慢慢深入大脑,达到单个神经元的水平,你会看到什么?在著名的大脑研究专家苏珊-格林菲尔德的指导下,你有机会获得人类大脑的鸟瞰图,并进一步了解什么是大脑,它是如何工作的,当大脑的一个部分因中风或事故而功能失调时会发生什么,改变大脑情绪的药物如何找到它们的目标。在一个特别迷人的章节中,格林菲尔德为我们调查了大脑是如何建立的,然后带我们参观了从受孕开始的大脑发育。在哪个阶段,个性会悄悄进入发育中的大脑?神经元回路的集合如何不仅产生了一个独立的大脑,而且产生了一个独立的意识?胎儿可能对什么有意识? 《人脑之谜》是一名实验神经生物学家从脑的结构、脑的发育、神经细胞活动的基本过程以及脑的正常、异常活动等几个侧面,对脑作比较全面的介绍。作者以丰富、翔实的材料为依据,从引述浅显的事实或引证在脑科学发展史上有重要意义的典型病例起步,以生动的笔触带领读者作一场引人入胜的科学之旅——探索脑的奥秘。 What would you see if you removed the skull from the human brain and then slowly worked your way deeper and deeper into the brain, to the level of an individual neuron? With renowned brain researcher Susan Greenfield as your guide, here is your chance to gain a bird's eye view of the human brain,and to learn more about what the brain is, how it works, what happens when one part of the brain is made dysfunctional through stroke or accident, how brain mood-modifying drugs find their targets.In a particularly fascinating chapter, Greenfield surveys for us how a brain is built and then takes us on a tour of the developing brain from the moment of conception.Throughout Greenfield poses the larger questions all readers want to consider, including: At what stage does individuality creep into the developing brain? How does the collection of circuits of neurons give rise not just to an individual brain but an individual consciousness? What might a fetus be conscious of?
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