Contents

About the Author

Preface

A Body Fit for a Gigantic Brain

The Genius of Athletes

Switching on the Happy Rat

How the Brain Wires Itself

Past Is Prologue

Decoding the Smile

A Yardstick for the Nose

Love Songs and Cockatoo Dances

The Silly Putty Brain

Ringing in the Brain

Where Pain Lives

The Trouble with Teens

A Hundred Trillion Connections

Consciousness, Bit by Bit

Selected References