Confounded Brain. A Guide to Neuropsychology

For everything we do and think, say and feel, different areas of the brain work in unison. It is this collective work of brain regions that makes us who we are. The brain enables us to see, hear, and feel... the surrounding world; it gives meaning to all our actions and allows us to perform those actions: to move purposefully, to do what we desire or consider necessary. But its capabilities are much broader: the brain can memorize and store information related to our abilities, knowledge, and skills in various ways, so that we act absolutely automatically; it also allows us to establish relationships with those around us and even become attached to them. Furthermore, due to the special development and structure of the brain, we possess emotions: we experience anger, fear, happiness, and disgust, we respond to praise and affection; we can be excited and alert or calm and relaxed, or we can simply sleep. All these states of consciousness are part of the work of our brain. Confounded Brain is a real guide to neuropsychology for beginners; Niki Hayes systematically and with examples explains all aspects of how the human brain works: from the nervous system, its structures, the transmission of information to the ability to learn—and approaches the definition of what it means to be human.