Evolving Brain

"...superbly describe[s] breakthroughs in basic neurobiology, debunk[s] 'intelligent design,' and both argue[s] and demonstrate[s] the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to address issues such as consciousness, creativity, and self-knowledge. Well-written and informative, The Evolving Brain is recommended to a broad audience, including students...as well as established clinicians and researches wishing to see the larger panorama within which their work resides...I found this book to be a tour de force." -- Psychiatric Services magazine, Vol. 58, No. 11, November 2007

• The Anthill of the Brain; Conduction and Connection; The Sensation of Change; The "Dinosaur" Brain; The "Human" Brain; The Psychology of Learning; The Biological Basis of Memory; Brain Plasticity and Neural Stem Cells; Consciousness; Altered States; Emotion and the Social Brain; Motivation and the Social Mind; Genes, Environment and Human Behaviour; Neurology and Illnesses of the Brain; Psychiatry and Illnesses of the Mind Intelligence and Sociality; Toward a Theory of Emergent Complexity; Index.