The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain Books
- ISBN13: 9780470376232
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Have you ever wondered what’s happening in your brain as you go through a typical day and night? This fascinating book presents an hour-by-hour round-the-clock journal of your brain’s activities. Drawing on the treasure trove of in rank from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines as well as original material written specifically for this book, Judith Horstman weaves together a compelling description of your brain at work and at play.
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain reveals what’s going on in there even as you sleep and dream, how your brain makes memories and forms addictions and why we sometimes make terrible decisions. The book also offers intriguing in rank about your emotional brain, and what’s happening when you’re feeling like, lust, dread and anxiety—and how sex, drugs and rock and roll irritate the same spots.
Based on the latest scientific in rank, the book explores your brain’s remarkable ability to exchange, how your brain can make new neurons even into ancient age and why multitasking may be terrible for you.
Your brain is uniquely yours – but research is showing many of its day-to-day cycles are universal. This book gives you a look surrounded by your brain and some insights into why you may feel and act as you do.
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain is written in the entertaining, informative and simple-to-know style that fans of Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazine have come to guess.
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This is a fantastic book! Ok, my mom wrote it, but my whole family (myself and teens) are gobbling it up. It is really fascinating and informative. It’s not too techie for the lay reader like myself, but it’s not dumbed down – which I appreciate. There are many quite amusing small comments and phrasings that make it an entertaining read. I’m surprised at how much I’ve learned and what it sticking with me. Mom, I’m giving you 5 stars on goodreads too!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is probably not a excellent read for anyone who’s taken frosh psych or bio. It’s not a science book, but a popularization with surprisingly small content. The apparent connection to Scientific American is misleading: In the editorial reviews you find this sentence: “Drawing on neurology articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, science journalist Horstman makes…” In summary, this is frequently a superficial review of a few Scientific American articles.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is a fascinating, entertaining read! You’ll learn how emotion, memory and consciousness function; how you make decisions; the role the brain plays in addiction; how chronic stress kills brain cells; and a myriad of other incredible details that impact our day-to-day lives. The science behind it all is here–rendering us a deeper understanding of how we function and behave–yet it’s written in a language that’s infinitely approachable, alive and clever (here’s a sub-title: Why His Brain May Not Question Directions). Horstman accomplishes something really tough to do in this book: she packs in loads of (scientific and health) in rank even as at the same time maintenance it all so readable–not to mention attractive! I highly urge this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is such a fascinating book! Did you ever wonder why men give directions differently from women? Or why you pull your covers up at four AM? Or lots of other things you do without knowing how your brain is helping you? I don’t ordinarily read well loved scientific literature, but even for someone like me this book is a fantastic read!
Rating: 5 / 5
Judith Horstman’s book Day in the Life of Your Brain is front and focal top in my collection of books on the “isness” of things – Why is things as they is? The author, an award winning journalist, understands the tentative nature of science, which is very vital to us science folk. In addition, she writes with a charm that commonly brought a smile to my lips which is also vital.
The very first chapter answered a question I had been pondering for nearly 50 years. Even as in college, I was living with my gravely ill grandmother. I was both amazed and puzzled that I would perceive her distress even as in a sound sleep, become aptly away awake and functioning to help her. It turns out our brain “has an app for that”. It is called the RAS and is part of the more primitive area of our brain and originally evolved to detect the sound of a leopard’s claws on the trunk of the tree where our ancestors fled for night safety. Mothers of newborns are familiar with this capability. I highly urge this book to all who are even remotely interested in how their brain works. I also found it an simple yet substantive read. (A clean trick.)
Rating: 5 / 5