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Decoding the Brain

For more than a century, scientists across disciplines have investigated the workings of nature’s most complex organ. Findings from cutting-edge neuroscience are moving us closer to understanding processes like how we make decisions or navigate our environment. In this eBook, we examine the latest research on cognition, how the brain gives rise to consciousness and how we can improve mental health.

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Music and the Brain Neuroscientists have shown that music recruits nearly every area of the brain. Here, we examine the latest imaging studies and discuss music's role in learning math and language, promoting social connections and treating brain injuries.

Return to Reason: The Science of Thought Why do facts fail to change people’s minds? In this eBook, we examine how we form our beliefs and maintain them with a host of cognitive biases, the difference between intelligence and thinking rationally and some solutions for how to overcome these obstacles both in reasoning with others and in dealing with our own prejudices.

Fragile Brain: Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain disease such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s affect an estimated one in six Americans and are increasing in incidence as the population ages. In this eBook, we examine these and other conditions involving the damage and loss of neurons, including other forms of dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and multiple sclerosis (MS).

The Secrets of Consciousness Consciousness is one of humankind’s most fundamental, existential mysteries. In this eBook, we've gathered studies that use available medical technology to explore just what separates so-called “mind” from brain.

Ask the Brains, Part 2: 62 Answers to Common Questions on the Mind From irrational phobias to a midlife crisis, we've all experienced moments of utter confusion about the nature of our own behavior, emotions or perception of reality. In this eBook, neurologists and other scientists share what they know about how the mind works, including some of these baffling psychological experiences.

Remember When? The Science of Memory Why can you vividly recall the day your father took you to your first baseball game many years ago, but you can’t remember where you just put the car keys? The process of how and what we remember is a fascinating window onto who we are and what makes us tick. In our eBook, we explore what science can and can’t tell us about memory.

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