Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
You: The Owner's Manual for the brain: an expert, comprehensive, and lively guide that makes sense of all the latest scientific findings about how your brain really works. We are using our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they work. Much of what we think we know comes from folklore: that we only use 10 percent of our brain, or that drinking kills brain cells. These and other brain myths are wrong, as demonstrated by the work of neuroscientists who have spent decades studying this complex organ. However, most of what scientists have learned is not known to the world outside their laboratories. In this readable, lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. In its pages, you'll discover how to cope with jet lag, how your brain affects your religion, and how men's and women's brains differ. With witty, accessible prose decorated by charts, trivia, quizzes, and illustrations, this book is great for quick reference or extended reading. Both practical and fun, Welcome to Your Brain is perfect whether you want to impress your friends or simply use your brain better.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Welcome to this Book:
I bought this book because one of the authors conducted the Princeton Consortium Presidential Poll. I was so amazed by Sam Wang's thoroughness and accuracy that I figured I owed it to him and myself to purchase the b ook. I was not disappointed by this rather brief yet full description of how the brain works. The darkened areas that contain extraneous and often-amusing information sometimes interfere with the flow of the chapter and are somewhat hard to read at three a.m. when I picked up the book when my... more info
A User Manual for the Brain:
The aim of this review is to provide potential readers with an insightful synopsis of Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang's "Welcome to Your Brain." The authors are well-known neuroscientists who possess the expertise to explain the science behind life's most common annoyances and questions. "Welcome to Your Brain" presents a wide range of neurological facts, processes, and pathways in a context which does not require a Ph.D. in neuroscience to understand. It provides explanations for everyday events: those... more info
A wonderful introduction to Neuroscience for the average Joe/Jane:
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life This book explained so much in a way that is easily understood, interesting and relatable to every day life experiences. A fun read about a very current topic. This book provided answers to many questions that I have always wondered about. Highly recommended for those scientifically inclined as well as those who struggled with high school biology.
boring:
This book is rather boring.
I was not able to read through it so far.
I keep falling into sleep while reading it.
The topic might be very interesting, the writers might be good doctors,
but they are not good writers.
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