Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks

Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks by Dingman PhD, Marc. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781473696556.

Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis. Youll also discover what happens when the brain doesnt work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction. Youll learn how neuroscience is working to fix these problems, and how you can build up your defenses against the most common faults of the mind. Along the way youll find out: · Why brain training games dont prevent dementia · What its like to remember every day of your life as if it were yesterday · Which popular psychiatric drug was created from German rocket fuel · How you might unknowingly be sabotaging your sleep Drawing on the authors popular YouTube series, 2-minute Neuroscience, this is a friendly, engaging introduction to the human brain and its quirks from the perspective of a neuroscientist--using real-life examples and the authors own eye-opening illustrations. Your brain is yours to discover!