Book Description
for The Brain by Seymour Simon
From the Publisher
Wiggle your toes. Scratch your nose. Think about what you'd like to do tomorrow. Then cup your hands around your head and feel the bones of your skull. Inside your skull is your brain, the control center for everything from memories to movements, eyesight to emotions. Your brain is really what makes you,you.
Scientists are only beginning to understand how the brain works. We do know that the brain receives constant messages from billions of microscopic cells called neurons. Bundles of neurons link up to form nerves, which reach every inch of the body. Nerves can carry a message from your fingertip to your brain and back again at speeds of up to four hundred feet per second!
Award-winning author Seymour Simon explores the brain and nervous system and shows readers the wonders of this magnificent organ in crisp, detailed text and spectacular color photographs. Continue the journey through the human body that Simon began with The Heart and discover the amazing might of the world's most powerful computer- the brain.