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Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works

by Ronald Kotulak · 1997

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Describes recent scientific understanding of how the brain gets built, providing insight into human behavior and the effects of nature and nurture; and discusses how the brain gets damaged by environmental, internal, and external influences.

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