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    100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less
    100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less
    100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less
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    100 Lessons on Your Brain in 100 Words or Less

    By Dr.Katie Featherstone

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVisual Aid Publishing Limited
    Release dateJul 29, 2011
    ISBN9781908371089
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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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