Your Brain, Explained

Your Brain, Explained is Marc Dingman's general introduction to neuroscience, published in 2019 with the subtitle How Neuroscience Reveals the Mysteries of Human Behavior. Dingman holds a doctorate in neuroscience from Penn State, where he teaches biobehavioral health, and is known for the short video series 2-Minute Neuroscience. The book is organised by everyday function rather than by anatomy, with chapters on sleep, memory, fear, language, pleasure, vision, movement and attention, and each begins with a case or a story before setting out what is known about the systems involved. Its declared aim is to give a lay reader the working vocabulary of the field, and it is careful to mark where explanations are provisional. It is an introductory trade book and is a route into the literature rather than a source for it.

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