tailieunhanh - Ebook The minder brain: Part 1

(BQ) Part 1 book “The minder brain” has contents: The brain as a survival machine, a chemical code for survival, serotonin, steroids and signalling, the brain and stress, the weight-watcher in the brain, staying wet and salty, keeping warm, staying cool. | THE MINDER BRAIN b459-FM 5/17/07 12:51 Page ii This page intentionally left blank FA T H E MINDER M I N D E R BRAIN BRAIN THE JOEHERBERT Cambridge University, UK World Scientific NEWJERSEY • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONGKONG • TAIPEI • CHENNAI Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. THE MINDER BRAIN How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You from Danger, and Ensures that You Reproduce Copyright © 2007 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 978-981-270-394-1 981-270-394-2 978-981-270-395-8 (pbk) 981-270-395-0 (pbk) Typeset by Stallion Press Email: enquiries@ Printed in Singapore. ChingTing - The Minder 1 7/19/2007, 1:05 .