The Networked Brain The human brain has about 100,000 miles of white matter (bundles of myelinated axons) shooting electrochemical signals down 100 billion neurons through 100 trillion synaptic connections—we are spectacularly connected! The pattern of neural...
The Triune Brain Neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean formulated a model of the brain in the 1960s, detailed in his 1990 book The Triune Brain in Evolution, describing the brain in terms of three distinct structures that emerged along an evolutionary path. Although this...
The Divided Brain Iain McGilchrist, in his seminal book on the division of the brain The Master and His Emissary, describes in much detail the differences between the two hemispheres and how these differences have shaped cultures. The processing of information and...
The following posts will give you the basics of neural communication: Basic Nerve Cell Communication Neurotransmitters Neural Activation Patterns The Neuron - A Brief Introduction ...
