Anatomy

Architecture of the Brain

Mallgrave, Harry Francis (author)

The Architect's Brain ; 123-138

2010-01-08

15 pages

9781405195850 , 9781444317275

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317275.ch10

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

building blocks of the human brain ‐ 100 billion neurons or brain cells , point of connection between axon of one neuron and dendrite of another ‐ synapse or synaptic cleft , Susan Greenfield, “personalization” of the brain, and relegating “mind” to that “seething morass of cell circuitry” , imaging or scanning technologies ‐ functional magnetic resonance imaging, (fMRI), PET, EEG, magnetoencephalography (MEG) , future of the earth and all its forms of life ‐ presently ruled by a single species , anatomy, architecture of brain , awareness of our brief existence ‐ ability to think and speak within a logical framework , visualizing outer mantle of upper brain, the cerebral cortex , brainstem and limbic system, brain being more than a simple organ , Nobel laureate, Francis Crick ‐ new endeavor as nothing less than “the scientific search for the soul”1