The Nervous System

This edition has been revised and updated to take into account recent scholarship in this extensive subject. In our most basic bodily functions, in anything from kicking a ball to writing a symphony, the nervous system is involved. Designed for both student and layman, the book examines such topics as memory and how is it possible to lose it, how we see, and what actually happens in our nose when we smell. From a description of the physiological processes involved, the book goes on to consider questions such as how sensation acquires meaning (in pain, for example), how the nervous system is affected by external influences as various as the earth’s magnetic field and a bullet through the brain. Dr Peter Nathan is the author of The Psychology of Fascism (1943) and The Retreat from Reason (1956).