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Index
Acknowledgments
Quiz How Well Do You Know Your Brain?
Introduction Your Brain: A User’s Guide
Chapter 1 Can You Trust Your Brain?
Chapter 2 Gray Matter and the Silver Screen: Popular Metaphors of How the Brain Works
Chapter 3 Thinking Meat: Neurons and Synapses
Chapter 4 Fascinating Rhythms: Biological Clocks and Jet Lag
Chapter 5 Bring Your Swimsuit: Weight Regulation
Chapter 6 Looking Out for Yourself: Vision
Chapter 7 How to Survive a Cocktail Party: Hearing
Chapter 8 Accounting for Taste (and Smell)
Chapter 9 Touching All the Bases: Your Skin’s Senses
Chapter 10 Growing Great Brains: Early Childhood
Chapter 11 Growing Up: Sensitive Periods and Language
Chapter 12 Rebels and Their Causes: Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 13 An Educational Tour: Learning
Chapter 14 Reaching the Top of the Mountain: Aging
Chapter 15 Is the Brain Still Evolving?
Chapter 16 The Weather in Your Brain: Emotions
Chapter 17 Did I Pack Everything? Anxiety
Chapter 18 Happiness and How We Find It
Chapter 19 What’s It Like in There? Personality
Chapter 20 Sex, Love, and Pair-Bonding
Chapter 21 One Lump or Two: How You Make Decisions
Chapter 22 Intelligence (and the Lack of It)
Chapter 23 Vacation Snapshots: Memory
Chapter 24 Rationality Without Reason: Autism
Chapter 25 A Brief Detour to Mars and Venus: Cognitive Gender Differences
Chapter 26 Do You Mind? Studying Consciousness
Chapter 27 In Your Dreams: The Neuroscience of Sleep
Chapter 28 A Pilgrimage: Spirituality
Chapter 29 Forgetting Birthdays: Stroke
Chapter 30 A Long, Strange Trip: Drugs and Alcohol
Chapter 31 How Deep Is Your Brain? Therapies that Stimulate the Brain’s Core
Part 1—Your Brain and the World
Part 2—Coming to Your Senses
Part 3—How Your Brain Changes Throughout Life
Part 4—Your Emotional Brain
Part 5—Your Rational Brain
Part 6 — Your Brain in Altered States
A Note on the Authors
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