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12 Brain Rules

Introduction

Dumb things we do ~ The grump factor ~ Getting you in the loop ~ A brilliant survival strategy ~ Your amazing brain

Exercise

Our brains love motion ~ The incredible test-score booster ~ Will you age like Jim or like Frank? ~ How oxygen builds roads for the brain

Sleep

The brain doesn’t sleep to rest ~ Two armies at war in your head ~ How to improve your performance 34 percent in 26 minutes ~ Which bird are you? ~ Sleep on it!

Stress

Stress is good, stress is bad ~ Villains and heroes in the toxic-stress battle ~ Why the home matters to the workplace ~ Marriage intervention for happy couples

Wiring

Neurons slide, slither, and split ~ Experience makes the difference ~ Furious brain development not once, but twice ~ The Jennifer Aniston neuron

Attention

Emotion matters ~ Why there is no such thing as multitasking ~ We pay great attention to threats, sex, and pattern matching ~ The brain needs a break!

Memory

Memories are volatile ~ Details get splattered then pieced back together again ~ If you don’t repeat this within 30 seconds, you’ll forget it ~ Spaced repetition cycles are key to remembering

Sensory integration

Lessons from a nightclub ~ How and why all of our senses work together ~ Multisensory learning means better remembering ~ What’s that smell?

Vision

Playing tricks on wine tasters ~ You see what your brain wants to see, and it likes to make stuff up ~ Throw out your PowerPoint

Music

Bringing a man back to life ~ Listening and language skills ~ Fine-tuning emotion detection and empathy ~ Music as therapy

Gender

Sexing humans ~ The difference between little girl best friends and little boy best friends ~ Men favor gist when stressed; women favor details ~ A forgetting drug

Exploration

Babies are great scientists ~ Exploration is aggressive ~ Monkey see, monkey do ~ Curiosity is everything

Acknowledgments

Index