Neuroscience has never been so beautiful: a magnificently illustrated and entertaining, informative and comprehensible book about the secrets of the human brain and the most exciting discoveries in brain research. This book is a fact-rich and fantastic expedition into the human brain. The journey takes you through winding forests of neurons into the depths of a synapse. You will encounter neurotransmitters with superpowers and fabulous substances that threaten the brain, the hippocampus in the shape of a seahorse, Pavlov's dog, and the great explorers of the nervous system and the brain: from Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, to Hans Berger, who discovered brain waves and their measurement, to memory researcher Eric Kandel. Dr. Matteo Farinella, neuroscientist and illustrator, and his colleague Dr. Hana Ros.