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Caldwell, Mark. "Kernel of Fear." Discover, June, 1995, p. 96. Research has shown that the link between certain stimuli and fear responses, from common anxiety to post-traumatic stress syndrome, lies in a small brain structure called the amygdala.

Calvin, William H. The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1989.

______Conversations with Neil’s Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA, 1994.

Fine, Alan. "Transplantation in the Central Nervous System." Scientific American, August 1986, p. 52. Transplanted embryonic neurons can establish functional connections in the adult brain and spinal cord, long believed to be immutable in mammals. Such grafts might reverse damage from disease or injury.

Llinas, Rodolfo R. (ed.). The Workings of the Brain: Development, Memory, and Perception: Readings from Scientific American Magazine. W. H. Freeman, New York, 1990.

Mishkin, Mortimer, and Tim Appenzeller. "The Anatomy of Memory." Scientific American, June 1987, p. 80. An inquiry into the roots of human amnesia has shown how deep structures in the brain may interact with perceptual pathways in outer brain layers to transform sensory stimuli into memories.

Poggio, Tomaso, and Christof Koch. "Synapses that Compute Motion." Scientific American, May 1987, p. 46. How do nerve cells process the information they receive from the environment? Studies of cells in the eye that interpret movement may define a mechanism involved in many other neural operations.

Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. HarperCollins, New York, 1985.

——— An Anthropologist on Mars. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995. Sacks tells wonderful stories about people with neurological disorders, the autistic, and others of interest to neurobiology.

Shreeve, James. "The Brain That Misplaced Its Body." Discover, May 1995, p. 82. The condition called anosognosia usually occurs in stroke victims who have suffered damage to the right parietal cortex.

Streit, Wolfgang J., and Carol A. Kincaid-Colton. "The Brain’s Immune System." Scientific American, November 1995, p. 38. The role of microglia in protecting the brain against damage.

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