Your Brain, Explained, Marc Dingman
Your Brain, Explained, Marc Dingman
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Your Brain, Explained
What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks

Author: Marc Dingman

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2019

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; and 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. Your brain is yours to discover!

About Marc Dingman

Marc Dingman, PhD, received his doctorate in neuroscience in 2013 from The Pennsylvania State University. Since then, he has been a faculty member in the biobehavioral health department at Penn State, where he teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He also spends much of his free time teaching people about neuroscience through his website (neurochallenged.com) and his popular YouTube series, 2-Minute Neuroscience. He lives outside of State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by NAT.orious reads ☾ on December 03, 2019

4.75 mind-blown stars ★★★★✬ This book is for you if…you want to address your thirst for peculiarities. You will learn about extreme cases of brain-malfunction and interesting hypotheses about how the brain works. Be ready to be mind-blown This was literally me throughout the entire book. I could......more

Goodreads review by Glo on April 22, 2022

In a nutshell, simple and accessible. It is a good choice to be introduced in the intricacies of the brain. And even though it is educational, and I came to know valuable information about fear, depression, Parkinson, ADHD, and more, I still have that humble Socratic-like feeling that I know I don't......more

Goodreads review by Jaan on October 27, 2019

Seda raamatut julgen täiesti kindlalt soovitada kõigile, kes on vähegi huvitatud neuroloogiast ja neurofüsioloogiast. Autor suudab väga-väga hästi edasi anda neurofüsioloogia algtõed ja seda ülimalt põnevalt (raamatut oli ÜLIraske käest panna). Ta teeb seda Raamatus tutvume kuulsate ajalooliste patsi......more

Goodreads review by Muberra on August 05, 2022

As a Psychology teacher, I will definitely be using information & case studies from this book to teach my students about cognitive processes. It was good... BUT The reason I gave it a 3 star is because the author, when explaining about fear, chose to give an example of a Palestinian construction work......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on September 10, 2019

I absolutely enjoyed this book. As a nurse specializing in Neurology, this book will always remain to be a resource for me. It is a read that I feel even non - medical would love to read and learn from. This book covers every detail of the functioning of the brain and I thought that it thoroughly ex......more

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