In his latest book, David Bainbridge combines an otherworldly
journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and
entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled
anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the
brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on
brain function. He shows that for hundreds of years, natural
philosophers have been interested in the gray matter inside our
skulls, but all they had to go on was its structure. Almost every
knob, protrusion, canal, and crease was named before anyone had an
inkling of what it did--a kind of biological terra incognita with
many weird and wonderful names: the zonules of Zinn, the obex ("the
most Scrabble-friendly word in all of neuroanatomy"), the aqueduct
of Sylvius, the tract of Goll.
This uniquely accessible approach lays out what is known about
the brain (its structure), what we can hope to know (its function),
and what we may never know (its evolution). Along the way
Bainbridge tells lots of wonderful stories about the "two pounds of
blancmange" within our skulls, and tells them all with wit and
style.
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