Your Brain

The Missing Manual

By: Matthew MacDonald

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Paperback | 10 June 2008

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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 just how the brain works, but how you can use it more effectively. What makes this book different than the average self-help guide is that it's grounded in current neuroscience. You get a quick tour of several aspects of the brain, complete with useful advice about:

Brain Food: The right fuel for the brain and how the brain commands hunger (including an explanation of the different chemicals that control appetite and cravings)
Sleep: The sleep cycle and circadian rhythm, and how to get a good night's sleep (or do the best you can without it)
Memory: Techniques for improving your recall
Reason: Learning to defeat common sense; logical fallacies (including tactics for winning arguments); and good reasons for bad prejudices
Creativity and Problem-Solving: Brainstorming tips and thinking not outside the box, but about the box -- in other words, find the assumptions that limit your ideas so you can break through them
Understanding Other People's Brains: The battle of the sexes and babies developing brains

Learn about the built-in circuitry that makes office politics seem like a life-or-death struggle, causes you to toss important facts out of your memory if they're not emotionally charged, and encourages you to eat huge amounts of high-calorie snacks. With Your Brain: The Missing Manual you'll discover that, sometimes, you can learn to compensate for your brain or work around its limitations -- or at least to accept its eccentricities.

Exploring your brain is the greatest adventure and biggest mystery you'll ever face. This guide has exactly the advice you need.

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The Missing Credits	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Warming Up
A Lap Around the Brain	p. 7
A First Look at Your Brain	p. 8
The Brain: An Archeological Site	p. 9
The Brain's Wiring	p. 15
Mental Fitness	p. 22
Brain Food: Healthy Eating	p. 27
The Brain's Energy Use	p. 28
Brain Fuel	p. 29
A Brain-Friendly Diet	p. 33
The Secret Gears of Appetite	p. 38
Sleep: Taking Your Brain Offline	p. 45
Your Biological Clock	p. 46
Why We Sleep	p. 48
The Sleep Cycle	p. 55
REM Sleep	p. 57
Dream Analysis	p. 62
Exploring Your Brain
Perception	p. 65
The Doors of Perception	p. 66
Optical Illusions	p. 68
Your Shifty Eyes	p. 70
Distortions and Mismeasurements	p. 75
Seeing Things	p. 82
Ignoring Things	p. 86
Other Perception-Distorting Assumptions	p. 88
Dizzy Yourself Silly with Optical Illusions on the Web	p. 89
Memory	p. 93
The Remembrance of Things Past	p. 94
Short-Term Memory	p. 95
Long-Term Memory	p. 97
Techniques for Better Remembering	p. 107
Better Learning	p. 120
Emotions	p. 123
Understanding Emotion	p. 124
Pleasure: The Reward System	p. 128
Fear: Avoiding Death	p. 133
Stress	p. 138
In Search of Happiness	p. 140
Reason	p. 147
The Thinking Brain	p. 148
Common Sense	p. 150
Moral Calculus	p. 154
Statistical Blunders	p. 156
Critical Thinking	p. 163
Problem Solving	p. 169
Creative Thinking Tools	p. 171
Your Personality	p. 179
The Building Blocks of Personality	p. 180
A Personality Test	p. 183
Dissecting Your Personality	p. 186
The Personality Fit	p. 194
Understanding Other People's Brains
The Battle of the Sexes	p. 199
Gender in the Brain	p. 200
Are Gender Differences Real?	p. 206
Love and Relationships	p. 215
The Developing Brain	p. 223
Before Birth	p. 224
Childhood	p. 226
The Teenage Years	p. 232
Old Age	p. 235
Nature vs. Nurture	p. 239
Index	p. 249
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