Beyond the zonules of Zinn : a fantastic journey through your brain / David Bainbridge.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.

viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.

I. A grand tour of terra incognita : the spinal cord. Skull marrow : first thoughts about the mind -- Servants and guards of the great king : the classical brain -- The brain as geography : maps of the mind -- A river runs through it : the development of a brain -- Leonardo's butterfly : the spinal cord -- Interlude : the worm that turned (over) -- II. An assault on the senses : the brain stem. A forest so dense : the new anatomy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- The little fish who never grew up : the origins of the ear -- The brain as archaeology : the hindbrain -- Beauty is in the eye of the, er, squid : the origins of the eye -- Hillocks, buttocks, blindsight, and black stuff : the midbrain -- Stinkin' and thinkin' : the origins of the nose -- Into the marriage chamber for some sexy synesthesia : entering the forebrain -- Why is "D" brown? : when the senses mix -- Interlude : shrapnel and magnets -- III. Where all the mind may be found? : the cortex. The brain as engineering : Wilder Penfield and the cortex -- The apparent disorder of the cerebral jungle : what is in those hemispheres? -- The seahorse and the almond : memory, learning, and fear -- The hard question : brain size and consciousness -- Epilogue : no turning back.