"In this volume, Fahama has been kidnapped by a mad scientist and his zombie assistant, and they are intent on stealing her brain! She'll need to learn about the brain as fast as possible in order to plan her escape! How did the brain evolve? How do our senses work in relation to the brain? How do we remember things? What makes you, YOU? Get an inside look at the human brain, the most advanced operating system in the world ... if you have the nerve!"--...

These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.

"Fahama cayó presa del Dr. Cerebellum y su asistente zombie, y su única salvación es hacerlo hablar incansablemente sobre el cerebro. Incapaz de resistirse, el científico loco le explicará a su rehén todo sobre las neuronas, cuáles son las partes del cerebro y sus funciones, cómo opera la memoria, cómo se conforma la personalidad, qué pasa con los sentidos y cuál es la historia de nuestras ideas sobre este indispensable y complejo órgano,...

Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.

A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.