Understanding the Brain
From Cells to Behavior to Cognition

I wanted to learn more about the brain and have a better foundation for neuroscience. This book was originally published in 1998, but it has been recently updated. I liked the progression of starting the most basic and the smallest unit that neuroscience deals with and then progressing in complexity.......more

A fascinating book and worthy successor to his earlier book on the brain. This is quite different from his earlier book. Fortunately, he does not cover the same ground. Full of fascinating tidbits such as how visual inputs (things we see) first come to the brain area called V1 and how, simultaneously,......more

Excellent beginning or foundational knowledge of the brain and how it influences the mind. The first 2/3rds of the book is a bit academic in nature describing the what cells the brain is made of and how it organizes itself as those cells excite and inhibit. I don't recall ever taking a class on cell......more

Somewhat hard to follow and understand, and a lot of academic terms are not easy to grasp if you’re not into the field. The book starts from the basics: cells, and progresses in a linear way to behaviour and cognition, expanding and explaining how and why we (humans) behave in a given way in given c......more