From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Quiz:How well do you know your brain?
Introduction: Your brain, a user's guide
Part 1-Your brain and the world: Can you trust your brain?
Gray matter and the silver screen-popular metaphors of how the brain works
Thinking meat: neurons and synapses
Fascinating rhythms: biological clocks and jet lag
Bring your swimsuit: weight regulation
Part 2-Coming to your senses: Looking out for yourself: vision
How to survive a cocktail party: Hearing
Accounting for taste (and smell)
Touching all the bases: Your skin's senses
Part 3- How your brain changes throughout life: Growing great brains: Early childhood
Growing up: Sensitive periods and language
Rebels and their causes: Childhood and adolescence
An educational tour: learning
Reaching the top of the mountain: aging
Is the brain still evolving?
Part 4-Your emotional brain: The weather in your brain: emotions
Did I pack everything? Anxiety
Happiness and how we find it?
What's it like in there?Personality
Sex, love and pair-bonding
Part 5- Your rational brain: One lump or two:how to make decisions
Intelligence (and the lack of it)
Vacation snapshots: memory
Rationality without reason: autism
A brief detour to Mars and Venus: cognitive gender differences
Part 6- Your brain in altered states: Do you mind? studying consciousness
In your dreams: the neuroscience of sleep
A pilgrimage: spitituality
Forgetting birthdays: stroke
A long, strange, trip: drugs and alcohol
How deep is your brain? Therapies that stimulate the brain's core
