Neuroscience of Everyday Life

De: The Great Courses

Narrado por: Professor Sam Wang

Your nervous system is you. All the thoughts, perceptions, moods, passions, and dreams that make you an active, sentient being are the work of this amazing network of cells. For many centuries, people knew this was true. But no one was sure how it happened. Now, thanks to the exciting new field of neuroscience, we can chart the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system in remarkable detail to explain how neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes produce all the experiences of everyday life, in every stage of life.

From the spectacular growth of the brain in infancy to the act of learning a skill, falling in love, getting a joke, revising an opinion, or even forgetting a name, something very intriguing is going on behind the scenes.

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Una lectura excelente precisa entretenida

El autor se sumerge en la profundided del conocimiento sobre la neurofisiologia de un modo practico asociando situaciones cotidianas a las procesos neurobiologicos implicados

Enjoyable

Educational and relatable. Author goes into depth without losing the lay person. Enjoyable listen even though it gets a bit dry at times. Stick with it, it’s worth it.

Great!

I found the topics of discussion were fantastic. The delivery was good. Remember, this is not an extremely detailed course on the cell biology of the nervous system, it's a more general overview of the field and fields of study of Neuroscience. Well worth the listen.

Very interesting, latest research

Broken down so you don't have to be an expert to understand. Fascinating overview of day to day functions and how our brains work.

Excellent!

Loved it . So useful. First audible file I've shared widely. it's that applicable to life.

Abundantly informative

As a stroke survivor, I’m significantly better off now that I’ve been able to absorb the abundance of knowledge contained within this book. The material is very well presented and never unnecessarily dense.

Great review of the current state of neuroscience

I enjoyed this title. It spans a range of important topics in neuroscience, like child development, emotions and cognition. A great feature is that the presenter discusses each topoc in terms of observation, neural circuits and Molecular biology.

Something to be compulsory from cradle to grave

It is hard to imagine, impossible to foresee the huge universe that we are going to discover in our brain, the source of our mind, in a thousand years—therefore we must teach from the very beginning of our education what we already know. In so doing, we nourish a human being fully aware of his/her essence.

Very informative

It has a lot of information. It may be a bit overwhelming ar first, but you can deal with it if you're interested.

Disadvantage of using audible for this course

The visuals the author referred to were not visible using audible. This type of course would be more beneficial to use an app that allows for this. Otherwise it was a great audible!