The brain: what everyone needs to know
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2017]
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| Schriftenreihe: | What everyone needs to know
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 177 Seiten 1 Illustration |
| ISBN: | 9780190603397 9780190603403 |
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PREFACE XIII
Introduction 1
1 What is a memory? 5
How are memories made? 6
Do I need to pay attention? 7
Why do / forget some things but not others? 8
How are memories recalled? 9
Do memories last forever? 10
What is amnesia? 11
How does the brain create a memory? 12
Why are patients with Alzheimer’s disease so forgetful? 15
How is the memory loss treated? 16
What does a memory look like? 18
How does nicotine influence brain function? 19
2 Why do I feel this way? 21
What is fear? 23
Why are close-talkers so frightening? 27
viii CONTENTS
What is depression? 27
How is depression treated? 29
Why do you sleep so poorly when you are depressed? 31
Why is depression so common? 32
What is the role of serotonin in depression? 32
What is bipolar disorder? 34
What is schizophrenia? 36
Why do schizophrenics hear voices? 38
Are dolphins schizophrenic? 39
How is schizophrenia treated? 40
3 How do food and drugs influence my brain? 41
Why do plants affect the human brain? 42
How do we become addicted to specific foods and drugs? 44
Can I blame it on my parents? 45
Why am I addicted to caffeine? 47
What should I eat to feel better? 48
How do I stop eating so much food? 50
Is there a good time of day to eat? 51
What about carbohydrates? 52
What about fats? 54
How does obesity affect brain function and development? 55
Why do / hke to eat? 56
Why do I crave fat and sugar? 59
Are we born destined to become obese? 59
How do my gut bugs keep my brain healthy? 60
Can a good diet make you smarter? 61
What about an apple a day? 63
Will you lose weight by eating these fruits? 64
Are spices good for my brain? 65
CONTENTS ix
How do ffavonoids benefit us? 66
Eat chocolate! 67
Brain toxins in the diet 70
4 Why do I sleep and dream? 73
What is sleep? 73
Why is sleep so important? 74
What other daily rhythms do I experience? 75
What happens when I disrupt these rhythms? 76
How are eating and sleeping related? 78
How does your brain control its rhythms? 78
Why do I sometimes wake up paralyzed? 80
Why do some people act out their dreams? 81
What happens when I am dreaming? 81
Why do / sometimes dream that I am being buried alive? 83
Are children s dreams different? 83
What is a lucid dream? 84
How long do dreams last? 85
Does it matter what time / get up or go to bed? 85
Does it matter who I sleep with? 86
Why do / need that morning cup of coffee? 86
Can I get too much sleep? 87
What if I do not get enough sleep? 88
What happens to sleep with aging? 89
5 How does the brain age? 91
When does age-related senescence begin? 92
When am f going to die? 92
How can I live longer? 93
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How does eating age me? 94
How does caloric restriction work? 96
Which brain region suffers the most with aging? 98
How can I reduce inflammation in my brain? 99
What is Parkinson’s disease? 102
How does my nervous system change as I get older? 103
What happens to my vision? 104
What happens to my hearing? 104
What happens to my balance? 104
What happens to the taste of food? 105
Why do things feel differently? 105
What can you do to slow aging? 106
How much should you restrict your diet? 106
What is the consequence of being overweight as I get older? 107
What can you do about your aging brain? 109
Do miracle cures for brain aging exist? 109
Why do so many people fall under the spell of charlatans? 111
What about Ginkgo? 112
What is pseudoscience? 114
What is the placebo effect? 114
6 How does my brain accomplish so much? 118
Are near-death visits to heaven real? 122
How do nutrients and drugs get Into my brain? 123
How is the cortex organized? 124
Why aren’t human brains bigger? 125
How does the cortex develop? 126
How do male and female brains differ? 127
Are bigger brains always better? 126
What is neurogenesis? 129
CONTENTS xi
How do we think so fast? 129
What is multiple sclerosis? 130
Does my brain work perfectly all of the time? 131
What are neurotransmitters and what do they do for me? 132
How is my brain organized? 135
What happens in the front half of my brain? 136
How does my brain produce speech? 138
What happens in the back half of my brain? 139
Why do f daydream? 142
Why does the brain devote so much time to daydreaming? 142
What is the function of the temporal lobe? 143
What is a seizure? 144
What is a hallucination? 146
What is synesthesia? 148
What happens in the parietal lobe? 149
Where is my cingulate gyms and why should I care? 150
What is the little brain” and what does it do? 151
How does my right brain talk to my left brain? 153
Final thought 154
GLOSSARY 155
FURTHER READING 161
INDEX 171
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