100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less
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YOUR BRAIN: Why do we have emotions? What is creativity? Do we have free will? Why do we have dreams? Where do memories go? How do we learn and how can neuroscience teach us to improve or enhance our minds? 100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less explores neuroscience, biology, and psychology to help unravel the complex biological factors that help explain how our minds work. Your Brain is the most complex object in the universe. Spend a little time investigating the nature of your mind, what we know and the mysteries that remain about how it works.
We all know that we don't read enough—but don't beat yourself up—read a little, you can still learn a lot. Read between sets at the gym, on your way to work, while queuing at the bank, or even wind down with a few lessons at bedtime. Dip in, dip out, learn something new along the way. Try it–you might just like it.
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100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less - Dr.Katie Featherstone
100 Lessons on Your Brain
in 100 Words or Less
by Dr. Katie Featherstone
Copyright 2011 Visual Aid Publishing Limited
Published by Visual Aid Publishing Limited at Smashwords
Table of Contents
1. The benefits of daydreaming
2. Love is a drug
3. Is talking to yourself normal?
4. The value of perseverance
5. Does practice make perfect?
6. Can a dead salmon have brain activity?
7. Can we feed our brain?
8. How many genes control our brain?
9. We can buy happiness
10. The limits of neuroimaging
11. Our brain never rests
12. Making the perfect soldier
13. Our cells have a memory
14. Brain training doesn’t work
15. Having a brainwave?
16. Did you have an imaginary friend?
17. Drug addicts may not be weak-willed
18. Why do we crave junk food?
19. How do we recognize objects?
20. Stolen thoughts
21. How does awareness happen?
22. Obesity is bad for your brain
23. Why do we have emotions?
24. Can we inherit a risk of mental illness?
25. The drugs work, but how?
26. Meditation, the real mind gym
27. Could faulty brainwaves cause mental illness?
28. How can we manage pain?
29. Could we download our brains?
30. Sweet dreams remember this…
31. Are men and women’s brains built differently?
32. Could our immune system affect our emotions?
33. Can depression be good for you?
34. Have a questioning mind
35. The brain’s toxic brakes
36. Where do we store memories?
37. Focus can be achieved
38. Could learning disabilities be reversed?
39. Neuroscience at the movies
40. Why do we cry?
41. Who are neuroscientists?
42. Do criminals have different brains?
43. What can neuroscience tell us about art?
44. Connectopathies
45. How much of our brain do we use?
46. Do men and women experience sex differently?
47. Lying takes practice
48. The brains of WEIRD people?
49. Does size matter?
50. Can we train our brains to be fearless?
51. It ain’t the meat it’s the motion
52. Dreaming soothes the brain
53. Studying the brain during orgasm
54. The secret to studying for exams
55. Are you born with all your brain cells?
56. Do we have free will?
57. Did you see the gorilla in the room?
58. Can neuroscience make you buy?
59. Is there a Mozart effect?
60. What made our brains different?
61. Keep doodling
62. When do our brains mature?
63. What sets the human brain apart?
64. Feeling average? Don’t worry
65. Keep your socks on
66. What is normal?
67. Do dreams have meaning?
68. To have a future we need a past
69. Is déjà vu just a glitch in our memory?
70. Can the brain heal itself?
71. There’s something in the air
72. The importance of known unknowns
73. Do you really need killer breasts?
74. Are we left or right brained?
75. Hardwired for criminal behavior
76. Your neurons may need a nap
77. Multitasking—friend or foe?
78. Get outside and reset your body clock
79. Pleasure is a vital emotion
80. The benefits of boredom
81. Stimulating thoughts
82. Do we ever really sleep?
83. Why do we (me) crave chocolate?
84. Should we neuro-enhance ourselves?
85. Can debriefing aid recovery from trauma?
86. Your brain on trial
87. A pill for forgetting
88. Our bodies may not limit us
89. Exercise grows more than muscle
90. Remote control
91. 100 years of schizophrenia
92. Illuminating thoughts
93. Surveillance society
94. Our rapid response system
95. The language gym
96. Primed for success
97. What is consciousness?
98. How do neuroscientists create emotion?
99. A problem of association
100. The Jennifer Aniston neuron
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