Table of Contents
Preface VII
Acknowledgments IX
Part I Discovering the Other Brain
Chapter 1 Bubble Wrap or Brilliant Glue? 3
Chapter 2 A Look Inside the Brain: The Cellular Components of the Brain 16
Chapter 3 Transmissions from the Other Brain: Glia Know and Control Your Mind 48
Part II Glia in Health and Disease
Mending the Mind: Glia Repairing Nervous System Damage and Disease 65
Chapter 4 Brain Cancer: Almost Nothing to Do with Neurons 69
Chapter 5 Brain and Spinal Cord Injury 80
Chapter 6 Infection 107
Chapter 7 Mental Health: Glia, Silent Partners in Mental Illness 133
Chapter 8 Neurodegenerative Disorders 162
Chapter 9 Glia and Pain: A Blessing and a Curse 183
Chapter 10 Glia and Addiction: A Neuron-Glia Dependence 200
Chapter 11 Mother and Child 209
Chapter 12 Aging: Glia Rage against the Dying Light 233
Part III Glia in Thought and Memory
Chapter 13 The Mind of the Other Brain: Glia Controlling the Conscious and Unconscious Mind 249
Chapter 14 Memory and Brain Power beyond Neurons 268
Chapter 15 Thinking beyond Synapses 280
Chapter 16 Into the Future: The New Brain 305
Glossary 311
Notes 323
Bibliography 329
Index 359