The Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Your Brain
The Two Different Nervous Systems
How the Central Nervous System Works
Mixing Chemicals and Electricity: The Neuron
Other Types of Cells in the CNS
Neuroimaging and Other Ways of Looking at the Brain
North-South-In-Out: Directional Descriptions
Forebrain, Midbrain, Hindbrain
What’s with All the Wrinkles? Gyri and Sulci
Lateralization: Left Brain or Right Brain
Cortical and Subcortical Areas
Cover My Brain Please: The Meninges
Holes in Your Brain: The Ventricles
03 Can You Believe Your Eyes? The Process of Vision
The Principles of Sensory Organization
Impaired Vision and Visual Illusions
04 Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Language and Your Brain
The Effect of Brain Damage on Language
05 Do You Feel Me? The Sense of Touch
How You Obtain Balance: Vestibular Sensation
06 Chemicals in Your Brain: Taste and Smell
How Many Different Tastes Are There?
That Smell Went Right to Your Brain
08 Hot, Hungry, and Thirsty: Internal Body States
Hormones and Reproductive Behavior in Females and Males
Determinants of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Neural Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms
11 You Have to Grow Up Sometime: The Developing Brain
Growth and Brain Differentiation
The Old Nature Versus Nurture Debate
When Older Is Not Always Better
12 The Big Cheese: The Executive Brain
Let’s Be Up Front about This: The Frontal Lobes
Do You Have a Plan? The Brain and Planning
Can You Change That? Correcting Errors
13 Say That Again? Attention and the Brain
The Prestriate Area of the Brain and Attention
Working Memory: Who Does It Work For?
14 Who Was the Fifth President? Learning and Memory
The Biological Foundations of Memory
Learning Disabilities, Brain Damage, and Memory
Where in the Brain Are Emotions?
Structures of the Brain and Emotion
How Stress Affects the Immune System
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
16 Don’t Be So Smart: Intelligence and the Brain
Are There Different Types of Intelligence?
How Are Consciousness and Intelligence Related?
17 Well, They Have a Great Personality
Phineas Gage: The Classic Study
Nature Versus Nurture and Personality
Can You Rewire Your Brain or Change Your Personality?
Brain Pathways Involved in Addiction
Neurotransmitters and Addiction
20 Some Brain Myths That You May Still Believe
You Only Use 10 Percent of Your Brain
Listening to Mozart When You Are Pregnant Can Make Your Kids Smarter