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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Quiz How Well Do You Know Your Brain?
Introduction Your Brain: A User’s Guide
Part 1 Your Brain and the World
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
Part 2 Coming to Your Senses
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
Part 3 How Your Brain Changes Throughout Life
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?
Part 4 Your Emotional Brain
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
Part 5 Your Rational Brain
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
Part 6 Your Brain in Altered States
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
A Note on the Authors
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