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I found too many errors in this book to give it five stars, but at the same time, it is put together so well and covers too much material to give it just three stars. Here are the errors I was able to find: *The diagram on page 58 mistakes an Internal globus pallidus for an External globus pallidus *On page 60, it incorrectly states that the auditory cortex is represented by Brodmann areas 40 and 41 while it should be Brodmann areas 41 and 42. *On page 115, the color coded projections of the cerebellar circuits to and from the pimary motor cortex are wrong. *On page 116 it incorrectly stated that the red nucleus is in the superior colliculus. Furthermore, it incorrectly indicates that the pons is the inferior colliculus. *On page 135, the superior temporal gyrus is called a superior temporal sulcus. The same error is made on page 142 as well. These are very serious errors and no book on the brain should contain this many blatant errors. I know the book was not written by a neuroscientist, but whoever the neuroscientist was who reviewed her work did not do a very good job. The only other thing in this book is that I don't think the section on memory explains neuroplasticity very well. I've read quite a few other books written by neuroscientists such as Robert Sapolsky and Joseph LeDoux who do a much better job explaining this and use more concise diagrams. The included DVD which shows brain scan images, the anatomy of the brain as well as the different Brodmann areas and a short video on how neurons fire is excellent.