Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks

Dingman PhD, Marc

ISBN 10: 1473696550 / ISBN 13: 9781473696556

Published by Nicholas Brealey, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473696550
• ISBN 13: 9781473696556
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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

Drawing on the author's popular YouTube series, 2-minute Neuroscience, this is a friendly, engaging introduction to the human brain and its quirks from the perspective of a neuroscientist--using real-life examples and the author's own eye-opening illustrations. Your brain is yours to discover!

About the Author

Marc Dingman received his Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2013 from the Pennsylvania State University. Since then, he has been a faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department at the Pennsylvania State University, where teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Health and Human Development in each of the past four years, the Health and Human Development Alumni Society Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017, and the Biobehavioral Health Outstanding Teaching Award in 2015.