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Welcome to your Brain : The science of jet lag, love and other curiosities of life
When I drink, am I killing my brain cells? Written by two top neuroscientists, they dispel all the myths (such as we only ever use 10% of our brains!), and show how understanding your brain can also be useful.
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London
Rider
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Can you trust your brain?
- Gray matter and silver screen : popular metaphors of how the brain works
- Thinking meat: neurons and synapses
- Fascinating rhytms: biological clocks and jet lag
- Happiness and how we find it
- What's it like in there? personality
- Sex, love, and pair-bonding
- One lump or two: how you make decisions
- Intelligence (and the lack of it)
- Vacation snapshots: memory
- Rationality without reason: autism
- A brief detour to Mars and Venus: cognitive gender differences
- Do you mind? Studying consciousness
- In you dreams: the neuroscience of sleep
- A pilgrimage: spirituality
- Forgetting birthdays: stroke
- A long, strange trip: drugs and alcohol
- How deep is your brain? Therapies that stimulate the brain's core.