Kenneth P. Nunn, Tanya Hanstock, Bryan Lask

Who's Who of the Brain

A Guide to Its Inhabitants, Where They Live and What They Do

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Subtitled, )A Guide To Its Inhabitants, Where They Live & What They Do(.

---

This book provides an immediate and entertaining way for anyone to gain a basic understanding or to refresh their knowledge of the inside workings of the brain. The authors shows what happens when things go wrong in the brain, and illustrate the work using examples of classic clinical cases.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781843104704
• ISBN-10: 1843104709
• Artikelnr.: 23409077

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Nunn is a specialist in paediatric neuropsychiatry. He was Emeritus Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia, and Senior Child and Adolescent Consultant in Justice Health, New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Preface. Part One: A Community called
Cephalton-upon-Ridge. 1. Introducing the Community and Characters of
Cephalton-upon-Ridge. Part Two: The Cerebral Cortex. 2. Fredrick Foresight:
the Frontal Lobes. 3. Rochelle Ringbond: the Cingulate Gyrus. 4. Dudley
Doit: The Motor Cortex. 5. Cherry and Charles Chatterley: Broca's and
Wernicke's Areas. 6. Melissa Mirrorwood: the Somatosensory Cortex. 7.
Maurice Mapply: the Parietal Lobes. 8. Penelope Panorama: the Occipital
Lobes. 9. Lilly Listentale: the Temporal Lobes. 10. Brenda Bridgehead: the
Insula. Part Three: The Subcortex. 11. Chris Crosstalk: the Corpus
Callosum. 12. Sage Seahorse: the Hippocampus. 13. Annie Almond: the
Amygdala. 14. Priscilla Prizeman and Olivia Orgasma: the Nucleus Accumbens
and Septal Nuclei. 15. Corrie O'Graphie: the Basal Ganglia. 16. Felicity
Feelall: the Thalamus. 17. Uma Underbride and Horace Hormone: the
Hypothalamus and Pituitary. Part Four: The Brain Stem, Cerebellum and
Beyond. 18. Fay Faceandear and Sam Swallowtalk: the Pons and Medulla. 19.
Frank Finesse: the Cerebellum. 20. Rosie Reaction and the Downtown Dream
Team: the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and the Reticular Formation (RF).
Part Five: The Community as a Whole. 21.Cephalton in Action: The Annual
Ball. Glossary. The Authors. Index.