Welcome to Your Brain

Welcome to Your Brain

by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/04/2012

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- When I drink, am I killing my brain cells?

- Does cramming for an exam work?

- Why can't you tickle yourself?

- Can you improve your brain with video games?

- Why is looking at a photograph harder than playing chess?


Written with a light touch, but using hard science, Welcome to your Brain will answer all the questions you've ever had about how that amazing three pounds in your skull works - and how you can help it work better. 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.


Full of practical tips for improving your noggin, as well plenty of stories to amuse your friends, Welcome to your Brain will be the most accessible, and the most fascinating, book on your grey matter that you could ever hope to read.

ISBN:
9781407022185
9781407022185
Category:
Science: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-04-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
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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