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
