The Science Times Book of The Brain (U)

A Collection Of Articles From The Last Twenty Years Of The Science Times Section Of The New York Times Newspaper On Discoveries Made About The Physiology, Psychology, And Neurology Of The Brain, With Chapters On Senses, Emotions, Mood, Memory, Language, Consciousness, Dreams, Medicine, And More. 1. Making Sense Of The Senses. Powerhouse Of Senses, Smell, At Last Gets Its Due / Natalie Angier. Brain Locates Source Of A Sound With Temporal, Not Spatial, Clues / Sandra Blakeslee. Seeing And Imagining: Clues To The Workings Of The Mind's Eye / Sandra Blakeslee. Brain Yields Clues To Its Visual Maps / Jane E. Brody. A Separate Pathway Slowly Carries A Caress To The Brain's Attention / Sandra Blakeslee. How Do You Stop Agonizing Pain In An Arm That No Longer Exists? A Scientist Does It With Mirrors / Sandra Blakeslee --^ 2. The Machinery Of Mood And Emotions. Tracing The Brain's Pathways For Linking Emotion And Reason / Sandra Blakeslee. New Kind Of Memory Found To Preserve Moments Of Emotion / Daniel Goleman. Brain Study Examines Rare Woman / Sandra Blakeslee. People Haunted By Anxiety Appear To Be Short On A Gene / Natalie Angier. Provoking A Patient's Worst Fears To Determine The Brain's Role / Daniel Goleman. How Brain May Weigh The World With Simple Dopamine System / Sandra Blakeslee. Brain Images Of Addiction In Action Show Its Neural Basis / Daniel Goleman. Does Testosterone Equal Aggression? Maybe Not / Natalie Angier. The Brain Manages Happiness And Sadness In Different Centers / Daniel Goleman --^ 3. The Making Of Memories. Hole In Tumor Patient's Memory Reveals Brain's Odd Filing System / Philip J. Hilts. Brain's Memory System Comes Into Focus / Philip J. Hilts. In Research Scans, Telltale Signs Sort False Memories From True / Philip J. Hilts. Biologists Find Site Of Working Memory / Daniel Goleman. Severe Trauma May Damage The Brain As Well As The Psyche / Daniel Goleman. Doctors Record Signals Of Brain Cells Linked To Memory / Nicholas Wade. Very Smart Fruit Flies Yield Clues To The Molecular Basis Of Memory / Ingrid Wickelgren. Two Studies Suggest Sleep Is Vital In Consolidating Memories / Sandra Blakeslee --^ 4. Language And The Brain. Traffic Jams In Brain Networks May Result In Verbal Stumbles / Sandra Blakeslee. Workings Of Split Brain Challenge Notions Of How Language Evolved / Sandra Blakeslee. Glasses For The Ears Easing Children's Language Woes / Sandra Blakeslee. Linguists Debate Study Classifying Language As Innate Human Skill / Gina Kolata. Chimp Talk Debate: Is It Really Language? / George Johnson -- 5. Growing A Mind. Studies Show Talking With Infants Shapes Basis Of Ability To Think / Sandra Blakeslee. In Brain's Early Growth, Timetable May Be Crucial / Sandra Blakeslee. Finding Elusive Factors That Help Wire Up Brain / Natalie Angier. Evolution Of Tabby Cat Mapped In Brain Study / Sandra Blakeslee. Rare Gene Flaw May Help Explain Shaping Of Brain In Womb / Natalie Angier. A Brain Cell Surprise: Genes Don't Set Function / Natalie Angier --^ 6. Daily Rhythms And Sleep. Modern Life Suppresses An Ancient Body Rhythm / Natalie Angier. A Mouse Helps Explain What Makes Us Tick / Nicholas Wade. Scientists Report The Discovery Of A Brain Switch That Brings On Sleep / Sandra Blakeslee. Mystery Of Sleep Yields As Studies Reveal Immune Tie / Sandra Blakeslee -- 7. Sexual Differences In The Brain. Man's World, Woman's World? Brain Studies Point To Differences / Gina Kolata. Study Links Brain To Transsexuality / Natalie Angier. Report Suggest Homosexuality Is Linked To Genes / Natalie Angier -- 8. The Nature Of Dreams And Consciousness. Nerve Cell Rhythm May Be Key To Consciousness / Sandra Blakeslee. Clues To The Irrational Nature Of Dreams / Sandra Blakeslee. How The Brain Might Work: A New Theory Of Consciousness / Sandra Blakeslee. The Conscious Mind Is Still Baffling To Experts Of All Stripes / Sandra Blakeslee. Edited By Nicholas Wade.