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

Dingman, Marc

ISBN 10: 1473696550 / ISBN 13: 9781473696556

Verlag: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2019

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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.

You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction. You'll 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 you'll find out:
· Why brain training games don't prevent dementia
· What it's 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 author's 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 author's own eye-opening illustrations. Your brain is yours to discover!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Marc Dingman received his PhD in Neuroscience in 2013 from The Pennsylvania State University. Since then, he has been a faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department at Penn State, where he teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He also spends much of his free time teaching people about neuroscience through his website (neurochallenged.com) and his popular YouTube series, 2-Minute Neuroscience. He lives outside State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience ...
Verlag: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good