Welcome to your brain : why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life /: why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang.
• Other Names: Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam, 1967-
• Contents: Pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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? pt. 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 -- pt. 5: Your rational brain. One lump or two: how you 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 -- pt. 6: Your brain in altered states. Do you mind? Studying consciousness -- In you dreams: the neuroscience of sleep -- A pilgrimage: spirituality -- Forgetting birthdays: stroke -- A long, strange trip: drugs and alcohol -- How deep is your brain? Therapies that stimulate the brain's core.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 220 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 612.8/2; Science -- General; Brain; Neurophysiology; Medical -- Neuroscience; Psychology; Brain -- Popular works; Neurophysiology -- Popular works; Brain; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; Popular Works; Electronic books; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781596917064; 1596917067
• Related ISBNs: 9781596912830; 1596912839
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.