Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and index.

And then there was shape. Behind diversity in the animal kingdom, a single plan ; When the zootype becomes neuronal ; The shapes we have inherited ; The conductor of the orchestra ; The story of the embryo ; Signals and mechanism ; Our new head ; Migrants on the road ; How to build a vertebrate -- The masterpiece. The cortical brain ; What is inside a walnut? ; Limbo of the mind ; The vertebrate : an emancipated animal! -- The workshop of the brain. Tissue regeneration ; New neurons in the adult ; Juvenile plasticity ; Connectional plasticity in the adult brain ; Olfaction : the prototype of epigenesis ; When the brain goes wrong ; When the cortex takes over a grafted limb ; Meditation and cerebral plasticity ; Plasticity in Homo cultiorus -- The brain under repair. Disheartening statistics ; The aging brain ; Dementia and other cerebral pathology ; Diseases of the mind ; When the brain takes over a lost limb ; The wounded brain, the incomplete brain ; The brain under stress ; Cognitive remediation -- The enhanced brain. The cerebots are coming ; I think, therefore I act ; The neurologist's Rosetta Stone ; Robots with neurons ; Fiat lux ; Brain doping ; The infinitely small in our brain ; the birth of the first nanoelements ; Nanotechnology and medicine ; When nanoscience merges with life ; Neurofeedback : cerebral bodybuilding ; The transhuman brain.

"Originally published as 'Le cerveau sur measure'"--Title-page verso.