A Beginner's Guide to the Brain: Major Discoveries that Will Change Your Life

"A Beginner’s Guide to the Brain: Major Discoveries That Will Change Your Life" describes the great importance for all of us of the discoveries of neuroscience. Neuroscientists have discovered, for instance, that experience changes connections among brain cells. Your words and actions can change the structure of your child's brain and can reconfigure circuits in the brain of a friend. Thought is also able by itself to change your brain's wiring. Learn how your brain handles memory, emotion, reason, rewards, belonging, paying attention, multitasking, and morality.