The New York Times Book of the Brain: Revised and Expanded - Softcover

For more than twenty years, the Science Times section of The New York Times has been the source of cutting-edge scientific information for readers throughout the world. The award-winning Times writers place the latest research in context and, with lucid analyses, take readers beyond the headlines toward real understanding.The New York Times Book of the Brain is a superb volume with chapters on senses, emotions, mood, memory, language, consciousness, dreams, medicine, and much more. Articles illuminate recent key discoveries about the physiology, psychology, and neurology of our most vital organ.How is it that we learn? How does the brain make sense of our world? How do children's brains develop? What goes awry in trauma and mental illness? How does the brain repair itself and compensate? What is the nature of consciousness? These and hundreds of other mysteries are plumbed in The New York Times Book of the Brain. Anyone with an interest in the mysteries and wonders of the brain and mind will find this collection indispensable. (7 x 9 1/4, 272 pages, illustrations)

Nicholas Wade is a science reporter for The New York Times. He was the editor of Science Times from 1990 through 1996. Previously the Washington correspondent and deputy editor of Nature, Wade is the author of The Ultimate Experiment, The Nobel Duel, Betrayers of the Truth (with William J. Broad), and A World Beyond Healing. Wade was born in England and currently lives in New Jersey.