How Does The Brain Work?
Start With 100 Billion Brain Cells Called Neurons.

The brain is, by far, the most complex and mysterious organ in the human body. Composed of over 100 billion cells called neurons, this amazing structure is the center from which all of our skills of higher reasoning originate -- creativity, learning, imagination, planning, and, perhaps most notable of all, our sense of identity.
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Parts Of The Brain:
From Brain Stem To Cerebellum and From Cortex To Frontal Lobe.

On a larger scale, the brain is made up of four distinct lobes on both the left and right hemispheres. The frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes each have primary processing functions, such as cognition, hearing, sensory input, and vision respectively, but they also serve act to regulate one another.
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Seeing Brain Function With MRI & PET Scans
A Window Into Brain Activity.

The study of brain functions has been greatly augmented in recent years by the development of high-tech imaging techniques that allow scientists to observe the living brain in action.
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How Memories Are Made In The Brain
The Hippocampus Is The Memory Control Center.

One area of particular interest, and of which our understanding is quickly growing, is that of human memory. Our memories are astounding in their capacity...
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What Is Consciousness?
You Are What You Remember.

Consciousness itself is clearly quite a controversial and subjective topic. It is thought to involve both the modern neocortex found in all higher mammals (cats, dolphins, elephants, etc) as well as certain profoundly developed sections of the brain stem only found in humans.


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