Full name: The Brain: Our Nervous System

Author: Seymour Simon Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060877194 0060877197

Your brain is the control center for everything you do. A nerve is composed of a bundle of neurons; nerves are the body's wiring. Messages leap from one to another across a tiny gap called a synapse.A message called a response is fired off by a nerve cell by a stimulus, such as touch, sound, light, taste, temperature and smell. Nerve cells that respond to these stimuli are called sensory neurons. The bones that protect your brain are called a cranium. The human brain weighs about three pounds when grown and is about the size of a large grapefruit. Your brain has three main sections: the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the brain stem. How is your memory? If you can remember what you had for breakfast this morning, that's called a short-term memory. Long-term memory is remembering things that happened to you months or years ago. Your brain is like a computer, in fact, it is more effective and can do more jobs than the most powerful computer made. Brains are what make us who we are. This book is much more complicated than this; I've just listed the most important points. It is a very thorough book, and I would recommend its reading! Similar books: The Heart by Seymour Simon How the Body Works by Steve Parker Blood, Bones and Body Bits by Nick Arnold The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino Bulging Brains by Nick Arnold