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Physician’s Notebooks⑨
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Brain & Mind; Psychology & Behavior: Cry for Happy in an Anxious Age
Table of Contents and then scroll down for Chapter 1. Intro to Studying the Mind. Update 02 Septr 2021.
Physician's Notebooks 9 is neuroscience (aka neural science): it comprises neurology (study of the nervous system and its diseases), psychology (study of the mind's functioning) and psychiatry (the human mind's diseases); but neuroscience also extends beyond these borders into all human and lower animal behavior and tries to show how the nervous system responds to the environment in a bottom-up way to produce each individual's behavior. And how the environment‘s affects on the brain plays back on neural development in a top-down way.
9.1 Introduction (Scroll down to read in lower part of this section; more chapters have been added and the chapters may not be hypertexted.)
1. Introduction to Studying the Brain and the Mind
I will focus on things to help improve wellness and to enhance and advance happy, healthy longevity. But I also wish to give what I have learned about the nervous system, the brain, and the mind as a functional unit based on the latest neuroscience plus my own experience at age 88 with 60+ years of medical training and experiences.
I, personally, want to know my brain's structure and my mind’s functioning. Getting this knowledge is no ivory tower. Book L’arnin’ is important, as is observation of outcomes of behaviors in myself and others. I write for the reader who values living healthily, happily and long. Also for the reader who values acquisition of knowledge. I imagine a wide range of readers: from physician, other scientist, medical student, nurse, allied health worker; from college student; and no less valued, from high school or grammar school graduate (and drop-out) or any person, anywhere with strong motivation and curiosity. I wish to produce a text that provides a base for the reader to build on. With outside reading—-medical tomes, Wikipedia internet, and seminar—-a reader may emerge as master of her or his own psyche and behavior. Recently we also have online study. But I want to make a special note on the latest edition of Mark Bear`s Neuroscience --- Exploring the Brain . This tome is incredibly reader-friendly and can be read with pleasure and understanding by even high school dropouts even though it is medical student level. A beautiful tome for learning Neuroscience. Similarly Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, 12th ed. (Just published)
I, personally, want to know my brain's structure and my mind’s functioning. Getting this knowledge is no ivory tower. Book L’arnin’ is important, as is observation of outcomes of behaviors in myself and others. I write for the reader who values living healthily, happily and long. Also for the reader who values acquisition of knowledge. I imagine a wide range of readers: from physician, other scientist, medical student, nurse, allied health worker; from college student; and no less valued, from high school or grammar school graduate (and drop-out) or any person, anywhere with strong motivation and curiosity. I wish to produce a text that provides a base for the reader to build on. With outside reading—-medical tomes, Wikipedia internet, and seminar—-a reader may emerge as master of her or his own psyche and behavior. Recently we also have online study. But I want to make a special note on the latest edition of Mark Bear`s Neuroscience --- Exploring the Brain . This tome is incredibly reader-friendly and can be read with pleasure and understanding by even high school dropouts even though it is medical student level. A beautiful tome for learning Neuroscience. Similarly Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, 12th ed. (Just published)
I advise slow, careful reading and rereading at intervals, both for better understanding and because the text is being continuously updated.
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