Currently best overview of the neuro-scientific basis of the behavioral sciences

The human brain consists of more than 180 billion nerve cells, more than 80 billion directly involved in the processing of information, and each of them has to be up to 15,000 other neurons connections. This complex organ in the weight of only 1300 to 1400 grams controls our perception and our thinking. It is the foundation for everything good and bad fortune, which we produce ourselves or experience of others.

Whoever wants to understand human behavior, therefore starts reasonably, the biological basis to study neuroscience. Because many symptoms of behavioral level are determined quite more or less on the substrate plane individually. For this purpose the handbook provides scientific preformed readers an excellent overview of the state of brain research. The authors are proven experts in their fields of research with many decades of experience publication.

As therapeutic practitioners - like me - you can still read scientific journals in everyday life rarely. I use this manual to keep me on the scientific state of the time. There are few better books in the field of brain research. Alternatively, possibly even the Principles of Neural Science by Eric Kandel in the 5th edition.

The contents of the two volumes can be easily see from Amazon over the function look inside the book. Who is interested in this exciting science is with these two volumes a wonderful introduction to the subject and a booster of his knowledge. My full recommendation.