Neuronal Man

<TR>Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition<TR>Preface<TR>1The "Organ of the Soul" - from Ancient Egypt to the Belle Epoque3<TR>Man Thinks with His Brain3<TR>Body and Soul7<TR>Phrenology13<TR>The Neuron21<TR>Electric Current and "Medicinal Substances"29<TR>The "Good Sense" of History36<TR>2The Component Parts of the Brain38<TR>The Macroscopic View of the Brain39<TR>The Expansion of the Neocortex43<TR>Microcircuits46<TR>Wiring52<TR>Modules or Crystals58<TR>From Mouse to Man65<TR>3Animal Spirits67<TR>Cerebral Electricity68<TR>The Nerve Signal73<TR>Oscillators77<TR>From One Neuron to Another83<TR>The Keys to Molecule Locks90<TR>"Psychic Atoms" Reexamined95<TR>4Into Action97<TR>To Sing and to Flee98<TR>To Drink and to Suffer103<TR>To Enjoy and to Be Angry107<TR>To Reach Orgasm112<TR>To Analyze115<TR>To Speak and to Do120<TR>From Stimulus to Response124<TR>5Mental Objects126<TR>The Materiality of Mental Images127<TR>From Percept to Concept and Thought130<TR>Toward a Biological Theory of Mental Objects134<TR>Assembling the Neurons140<TR>Problems of Consciousness145<TR>Attention151<TR>The Calculation of Emotion158<TR>Seeing Mental Objects161<TR>The Substance of the Spirit168<TR>6The Power of the Genes170<TR>Anatomical Mutations171<TR>Heredity and Behavior175<TR>The Simplicity of the Genome and the Complexity of the Brain180<TR>The Automaton Cell186<TR>The Embryo System191<TR>The Genesis of the Cortex195<TR>The Predestination of the Brain202<TR>7Epigenesis205<TR>Differences between Identical Twins206<TR>The Behavior of the Growth Cone212<TR>Regression and Redundancy216<TR>The Dreams of the Embryo220<TR>Building the Synapse223<TR>The Theory of Epigenesis by Selective Stabilization of Synapses227<TR>The Experimental Testing of Epigenesis229<TR>Hemispheric Specialization - a Genetic or Epigenetic Process?235<TR>The Cultural Imprint241<TR>"To Learn Is to Eliminate"246<TR>8Anthropogenesis250<TR>Monkey Chromosomes251<TR>Fossil Puzzles255<TR>The Winks of the Young Chimpanzee259<TR>Genes for Communication and Selective Stabilization264<TR>The Genetics of Australopithecus268<TR>The "Phenomenon of Man" Reconsidered271<TR>9The Brain - Representation of the World273<TR>Glossary285<TR>Notes293<TR>Bibliography301<TR>Index333

An outstanding attempt to convey to the general public an interdisciplinary understanding of the human nervous system.