Amazing Brain - Neurological Disorders [Board book]

Connie Goldsmith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 2001 | Series: Amazing Brain

The Amazing Brain series offers exciting answers about how our brain works and why we respond to the world the way we do. Questions addressed in this 4-vol. set include:

• Do male and female brains work differently?
• Can music enhance learning and boost brain development?
• Was Einstein's brain more unique than the average brain?
• What dependencies are really true addictions?
• Can brain cells regenerate?

These and many other fascinating questions are answered in this up-to-date series on the human brain. Also included is a glossary and resources for further study.

Learn about the latest experiments and research into our sense of smell. Did you know that we shift our sense of smell from one nostril to the other throughout the day? Did you know that because astronauts in orbit are deprived of gravitational sensing, they are actually experiencing a continuous state of free fall? Did you know that scientists think they have found the brain's center for telling right and wrong and they may know how it works! (20020201)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-9-Two attractive books that could easily have been combined into one. Brynie covers the anatomy and physiology of the brain and Goldsmith discusses injuries, infections, conditions caused by pressure and circulation problems, degenerative diseases, and mental illness. Both are well written with good analogies. Sidebars spark interest; one is about Einstein's brain (Physical), another about the use of sentinel chickens to track the spread of encephalitis (Disorders). Both titles have colorful photographs and charts throughout. The diagrams are well labeled and easily understandable, but not quite as informative as those in Steve Parker's The Brain and the Nervous System (RSVP, 1997). Brynie's 101 Questions Your Brain Has Asked about Itself (Millbrook, 1998) cleverly covers the same material with color diagrams.
Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Reviewed with Susan Papa's Addiction.

Gr. 6-10. The focus of both of these books in the new Amazing Brain series is on what happens to the brain when it is affected by disease, injury, or drugs. For example, Addiction examines the ways in which the chemicals in various drugs, ranging from nicotine to heroin, affect the brain and how dependency develops. It makes a nice supplement to the many other sources on drug use that tend to deal more with the legal, moral, and social issues. Neurological Disorders focuses on such diseases and conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, meningitis, cerebral palsy, schizophrenia, and Parkinson's disease. Each short section describes how the disease may damage the brain and what treatments are used. The latest research is covered, with explanations as to why many of the conditions still leave scientists baffled. In both books, the information is condensed, straightforward, and readable, supplemented by excellent color diagrams. A glossary, bibliography, list of Web sites, and a short index are appended in both books. Todd Morning
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Board book: 64 pages
• Publisher: Blackbirch Press; 1 edition (April 23, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567114229
• ISBN-13: 978-1567114225
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,717,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Connie Goldsmith writes about science and health for children and adults. Most of her books are published by Lerner Publishing's nonfiction imprint, Twenty-First Century Books. Her works include books about leukemia, malaria, skin cancer, hepatitis, influenza, meningitis, antibiotic resistant infections, and emerging infectious diseases.

As an RN with a master's degree in health, Connie also writes continuing education articles for nurses on a wide variety of topics, and has written for other healthcare professionals as well. She writes a pediatric health column for a regional parenting magazine.

Other writing venues include reviewing books for the online review site, The New York Journal of Books, and for California Kids, a Sacramento regional parenting magazine.

She has had articles published in the children's magazines Cricket, and Highlights, among others, and has written for the SCBWI Bulletin, Children's Writer, and Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market.

Visit Connie's website at www.conniegoldsmith.com for more information.