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Welcome to Your Brain

Welcome to Your Brain

Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/03/2008

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"You: The Owner's Manual "for the brain: an expert, comprehensive, and lively guide that makes sense of all the latest scientific findings about how your brain really works.
We are using our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they work. Much of what we think we know comes from folklore: that we only use 10 percent of our brain, or that drinking kills brain cells. These and other brain myths are wrong, as demonstrated by the work of neuroscientists who have spent decades studying this complex organ. However, most of what scientists have learned is not known to the world outside their laboratories.

In this readable, lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. In its pages, you'll discover how to cope with jet lag, how your brain affects your religion, and how men's and women's brains differ. With witty, accessible prose decorated by charts, trivia, quizzes, and illustrations, this book is great for quick reference or extended reading.

Both practical and fun, "Welcome to Your Brain "is perfect whether you want to impress your friends or simply use your brain better.

ISBN:
9781596912830
9781596912830
Category:
Science: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-03-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x193.68x20.32mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Sandra Aamodt

Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., is the science editor of BeingHuman.org. She co-authored two books with Dr. Sam Wang, most recently Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College. Their first book, Welcome to Your Brain, was named science book of the year in 2009 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, she has a bachelor’s degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. She did postdoctoral research on neural development at Yale University. Her science writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, El Mundo, and the Times of London. She lives in Northern California.

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