The Nervous System (Exc Business And Economy (Whurr))

by PeterNathan (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $5.10

  This work on the nervous system includes such areas as the five senses, and the senses unnoticed by the Greeks; the physics of the nerve impulse; and the anatomical bases of motivation, pain, the endocrine glands and hormones, sensation and perception, and the higher nervous activities.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.25

  This edition has been revised and updated to take into account recent scholarship in this extensive subject. In our most basic bodily functions, in anything from kicking a ball to writing a symphony, the nervous system is involved. Designed for both student and layman, the book examines such topics as memory and how is it possible to lose it, how we see, and what actually happens in our nose when we smell. From a description of the physiological processes involved, the book goes on to consider questions such as how sensation acquires meaning (in pain, for example), how the nervous system is affected by external influences as various as the earth's magnetic field and a bullet through the brain. Dr Peter Nathan is the author of The Psychology of Fascism (1943) and The Retreat from Reason (1956).