Beyond the zonules of Zinn: a fantastic journey through your brain

I. A grand tour of terra incognita: the spinal cord

Skull marrow: first thoughts about the mind

Servants and guards of the great king: the classical brain

The brain as geography: Maps of the mind

A river runs through it: the development of a brain

Leonardo's butterfly: the spinal cord

Interlude: the worm that turned (over)

II. An assault on the senses: the brain stem

A forest so dense: the new anatomy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The little fish who Never grew Up: the origins of the ear

The brain as archaeology: the hindbrain

Beauty is in the eye of the, er, squid: the origins of the eye

Hillocks, buttocks, blindsight, and black stuff: the midbrain

Stinkin' and thinkin': the origins of the nose

Into the marriage chamber for some sexy synesthesia: Entering the forebrain

Why is "D" brown?: when the senses mix

Interlude: shrapnel and magnets

III. Where all the mind may be found?: the cortex

The brain as engineering: Wilder Penfield and the cortex

The apparent disorder of the cerebral jungle: what is in those hemispheres?

The seahorse and the almond: memory, learning, and fear

The hard question: brain size and consciousness

Epilogue: no turning back.