Your Brain: The Missing Manual
Puzzles and brain twisters to keep your mind sharp and your memory intact are all the rage today. More and more people — Baby Boomers and information workers in particular — are becoming concerned about their gray matter's ability to function, and with good reason. As this sensible and entertaining guide points out, your brain is easily your most important possession. It deserves proper upkeep.\ Your Brain: The Missing Manual is a practical look at how to get the most out of your brain — not...
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Distilling recent research in an engaging way, this reference presents usable information on creativitity, problem solving, reasoning, improving memory, reducing stress, brain development, and other life-changing topics.
The Missing Credits viiIntroduction 1Warming UpA Lap Around the Brain 7A First Look at Your Brain 8The Brain: An Archeological Site 9The Brain's Wiring 15Mental Fitness 22Brain Food: Healthy Eating 27The Brain's Energy Use 28Brain Fuel 29A Brain-Friendly Diet 33The Secret Gears of Appetite 38Sleep: Taking Your Brain Offline 45Your Biological Clock 46Why We Sleep 48The Sleep Cycle 55REM Sleep 57Dream Analysis 62Exploring Your BrainPerception 65The Doors of Perception 66Optical Illusions 68Your Shifty Eyes 70Distortions and Mismeasurements 75Seeing Things 82Ignoring Things 86Other Perception-Distorting Assumptions 88Dizzy Yourself Silly with Optical Illusions on the Web 89Memory 93The Remembrance of Things Past 94Short-Term Memory 95Long-Term Memory 97Techniques for Better Remembering 107Better Learning 120Emotions 123Understanding Emotion 124Pleasure: The Reward System 128Fear: Avoiding Death 133Stress 138In Search of Happiness 140Reason 147The Thinking Brain 148Common Sense 150Moral Calculus 154Statistical Blunders 156Critical Thinking 163Problem Solving 169Creative Thinking Tools 171Your Personality 179The Building Blocks of Personality 180A Personality Test 183Dissecting Your Personality 186The Personality Fit 194Understanding Other People's BrainsThe Battle of the Sexes 199Gender in the Brain 200Are Gender Differences Real? 206Love and Relationships 215The Developing Brain 223Before Birth 224Childhood 226The Teenage Years 232Old Age 235Nature vs. Nurture 239Index 249
