Beyond the Zonules of Zinn

A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain

David Bainbridge

  • A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech book of 2008
  • A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008
  • Prologue

    I. A Grand Tour of Terra Incognita The spinal cord

  1. Skull Marrow First thoughts about the mind
  2. Servants and Guards of the Great King The classical brain
  3. The Brain as Geography Maps of the mind
  4. A River Runs Through It The development of a brain
  5. Leonardo's Butterfly The spinal cord
  6. Interlude The worm that turned (over)

    7. II. An Assault on the Senses The brain stem

  7. A Forest So Dense The new anatomy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  8. The Little Fish Who Never Grew Up The origins of the ear
  9. The Brain as Archaeology The hindbrain
  10. Beauty Is in the Eye of the, er, Squid The origins of the eye
  11. Hillocks, Buttocks, Blindsight, and Black Stuff The midbrain
  12. Stinkin' and Thinkin' The origins of the nose
  13. Into the Marriage Chamber for Some Sexy Synesthesia Entering the forebrain
  14. Why Is "D" Brown? When the senses mix
  15. Interlude Shrapnel and magnets

    16. III. Where All the Mind May Be Found? The cortex

  16. The Brain as Engineering Wilder Penfield and the cortex
  17. The Apparent Disorder of the Cerebral Jungle What is in those hemispheres?
  18. The Seahorse and the Almond Memory, learning, and fear
  19. The Hard Question Brain size and consciousness
  • Epilogue: No Turning Back
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • Cover: Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
  • A photo of the author

David Bainbridge is University Clinical Veterinary Anatomist at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. Catharine's College.