Inside Your Brain - Lucy Ann Unwin & Professor Barry

The human brain is famously complex and difficult to understand. The brain is also essential to how we function – so much so, that you can't simply poke a stick at it to see what happens. However, if someone accidentally pokes a stick through their own brain, there's a lot we can learn...

Written by professor of neuroscience Caswell Barry and children's author Lucy Ann Unwin, Inside Your Brain is an entertaining gallop through science history to uncover 10 groundbreaking discoveries and accidents, which led to our current understanding of how the brain works.

The ancient Egyptians discovered in battle that the brain was more important than they'd thought; Luigi Galvani sent electric shocks through dead frogs' legs and uncovered how brain cells work; Phineas Gage's unfortunate accident on the railroads revealed that you can survive a metal rod through the head because the brain operates using separate regions; while some unwitting kittens helped us understand how our brain develops.