The Human Brain Coloring Book: A Coloring Book (Coloring Concepts) Paperback – Illustrated, 18 May 2000

This is a brilliant book in some ways and, I'm afraid, a disaster in others but its brilliance outweighs its negative aspects.The idea of quietly colouring in pictures of the brain to learn its structure really appealed to me and I'm enjoying the discipline and the playfullness in colouring in my book. The pictures are comprehensive and go from depicting the basic structures into very complex and specialised areas of the brain and nervous system.Choosing the colours, coding them and then `colouring in' really helps to make the structures and functions clear and memorable.What is not appealing is the incredibly dry and academic style of writing. The authors are clearly good at breaking down pictures to make them easy to understand but they have forgotten to do the same with words. I use this book as an example in my writing workshops of how to hide your main point with complicated words and structures. The first paragraph starts `This is a book of illustrations (plates) and related text pages in which you (the colourer) color the name (title) of a structure and use the identical color for its structural representation. The titles are listed on the plate, and following each title is a letter printed in small type (subscript). In some cases, a number (exponent) is added to the subscript. In most cases, titles are arranged in alphabetical order of the subscripts, starting with A.' It goes on!They take 2 and a half A4 pages to explain how to colour in - something that most children grasp intuitively! And unfortunately the text that accompanies the brain pictures is just as dense and difficult to understand when they could have said the same thing using simple English. They've hidden the complexity of the science in complicated language structures and it's a pity.But don't let the text put you off because you will remember and understand much more about brain structure and function by colouring in this book. So if you've ever struggled to tell the difference between your caudate nucleus and your nucleus accumbens or just want to see how your hemispheres are different then this book is great.

I got this to help with my science and senses module.I know colouring may at first seem a little childish but it really does help information sink in. It also helped to do it when I was feeling a little overwhelmed with uni work.The book is really well thought out and the instructions are very clear.The only slight negative is it actually goes into a lot more detail than I needed. There is however a section in the introduction giving a list of what to colour depending on your level of study which was really useful.I probably coloured less than half the book it does seem like a bit of a waste but better to have too much than too little information. I guess I may return to it later if I ever do further study as well.

This book is excellent and I would highly recommend it to other medical students. The diagrams are clear and the accompanying text is very detailed but quite easy to follow. I had to spend quite a while on each page to make sure I was learning the details and not just colouring in pretty pictures, but I think it was worth it.I was a bit concerned that, being from the US, there might be significant differences in terminology. However, I've not found this to be a problem.You may have to get more colouring pencils as you will need a lot of different shades for each page. My only other (minor) annoyance is that colouring the labels is a pain, and some sort of key with a little box to fill in would be better. However, this does give you time to think about what you are colouring and let ideas sink in...I have other anatomy colouring books which I have not really used as they lacked detail. This one is great, the price is fantastic (much better than £50+ for a regular textbook) and I would definitely buy it again. If you're a medical student you should too.P.S. I hope it's okay for me to have added the picture. I wanted to show how I have been using the book.

I am a first-year Neuroscience student and this coloring book was my salvation! It has absolutely everything that you need. Every theme has a page of theory that you can learn during the coloring process. The book is very specific and examines every structure. It has a really good organization that you can start with the easiest themes and go on later with those that are more difficult. It is a new way to learn and relax at the same time. It really helped to cope with my anxiety as well as I was able to learn in the other way. I think that this book is a must for a Neuroscience student. I recommend it.

This book is FANTASTIC. I've studied Psychology as an undergraduate and I've been searching for over 3 years, without success, a poster or some sort of detailed representation of the brain. I've now started a masters in Neuroscience and realized that at that level, I needed much more, to fully understand the diverse structures and functions of the brain.This book is incredible: fun to learn, clear, concise, with good brief explanations of the different brain parts. I cannot even describe how happy I am with this (random) purchase. I will definitely tell my head of course at UCL to advise this book over the summer for students coming from different backgrounds and about to start a masters in Neuroscience.

The media could not be loaded. When I bought the book, I thought it was a simple colouring book aimed to understand how the brain is divided, but to my surprise, the book is quite thick and has far more information than that.Divided into 9 chapters, it takes you on a journey from brain structures, nervous system and how the brain begins its formation to name a few and the illustration are fantastic.Happy Colouring!

Great for my daughter to learn about biology whilst she colours. The pictures build on each other, adding more detail from picture to picture to embed learning. An excellent learning tool that is creative and recreational.