The other brain From dementia to schizophrenia, how new discoveries about the brain are revolutionizing medicine and science

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Discovering the Other Brain
Chapter 1. Bubble Wrap or Brilliant Glue?
Chapter 2. A Look Inside the Brain: The Cellular Components of the Brain
Chapter 3. Transmissions from the Other Brain: Glia Know and Control Your Mind
Part II. Glia in Health and Disease
Mending the Mind: Glia Repairing Nervous System Damage and Disease
Chapter 4. Brain Cancer: Almost Nothing to Do with Neurons
Chapter 5. Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 6. Infection
Chapter 7. Mental Health: Glia, Silent Partners in Mental Illness
Chapter 8. Neurodegenerative Disorders
Chapter 9. Glia and Pain: A Blessing and a Curse
Chapter 10. Glia and Addiction: A Neuron-Glia Dependence
Chapter 11. Mother and Child
Chapter 12. Aging: Glia Rage against the Dying Light
Part III. Glia in Thought and Memory
Chapter 13. The Mind of the Other Brain: Glia Controlling the Conscious and Unconscious Mind
Chapter 14. Memory and Brain Power beyond Neurons
Chapter 15. Thinking beyond Synapses
Chapter 16. Into the Future: The New Brain
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index