Great Myths of the Brain.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Urgent Need for Neuro Myth-Busting -- About This Book -- The Need for Humility -- A Primer on Basic Brain Anatomy, Techniques, and Terminology -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Defunct Myths -- #1 Thought Resides in the Heart -- #2 The Brain Pumps Animal Spirits Round the Body -- #3 Brain Cells Join Together Forming a Huge Nerve Net -- #4 Mental Function Resides in the Brain's Hollows -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Myth-Based Brain Practices -- #5 Drilling a Hole in the Skull Releases Evil Spirits -- #6 Personality Can Be Read in the Bumps on the Skull -- #7 Mental Illness Can Be Cured by Disconnecting the Frontal Lobes -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Mythical Case Studies -- #8 Brain Injury Turned Neuroscience's Most Famous Case into an Impulsive Brute -- #9 The Faculty of Language Production Is Distributed Through the Brain -- #10 Memory Is Distributed Throughout the Entire Cortex -- Notes -- 4 The Immortal Myths -- #11 We Only Use Ten Percent of Our Brains -- Background to the Myth -- The Reality -- #12 Right-Brained People Are More Creative -- Background to the Myth -- Correcting the Myth -- #13 The Female Brain Is More Balanced (and Other Gender-Based Brain Myths) -- The Reality -- #14 Adults Can't Grow New Brain Cells -- Battling the Dogma -- Neurogenesis in Humans -- Mysteries Remain -- #15 There's a God Spot in the Brain (and Other Lesser-Spotted Myths) -- Origins -- The Reality -- Other Lesser-Spotted Myths -- #16 Pregnant Women Lose Their Minds -- The Reality -- Animal Research and the Maternal Upgrade -- #17 We All Need Eight Hours of Continuous Sleep (and Other Dozy Sleep Myths) -- #18 The Brain Is a Computer -- Is the Brain Really a Computer? -- #19 The Mind Can Exist Outside of the Brain -- #20 Neuroscience Is Transforming Human Self-Understanding -- The Case For.

The Case Against -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Myths about the Physical Structure of the Brain -- #21 The Brain Is Well Designed -- Redressing the Balance -- #22 The Bigger the Brain, the Better -- Human Brains -- Animal Brains -- #23 You Have a Grandmother Cell -- Origins of the Grandmother Cell -- Do They Really Exist? -- #24 Glial Cells Are Little More Than Brain Glue -- #25 Mirror Neurons Make Us Human (and Broken Mirror Neurons Cause Autism) -- The Myth -- The Reality -- #26 The Disembodied Brain -- The Brain in the Gut -- Bodily Effects on Emotion -- Bodily Effects on Thoughts and Morality -- Physical and Mental Health -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Technology and Food Myths -- #27 Brain Scans Can Read Your Mind -- Mind-Reading Hype -- The Messy Reality -- Protecting the Neuroimaging Baby -- "Mind-Reading" Applications -- #28 Neurofeedback Will Bring You Bliss and Enlightenment -- Origins of the Myth -- Neurofeedback Mythology Today -- Clinical Neurotherapy -- #29 Brain Training Will Make You Smart -- The Case for Brain Training -- The Case Against -- Brain Training for the Elderly -- #30 Brain Food Will Make You Even Smarter -- A Fishy Tale -- Vitamin Pills and Power Drinks -- Is Glucose Really the Source of Our Willpower? -- Official! Chocolate Headlines Are Usually Overstated -- #31 Google Will Make You Stupid, Mad, or Both -- The Reality -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Brain Myths Concerning Perception and Action -- #32 The Brain Receives Information from Five Separate Senses -- The Reality -- A Sensory Cocktail -- Synesthesia -- #33 The Brain Perceives the World As It Is -- Not Paying Attention -- Blindspots -- Blackouts -- Extension and Momentum -- Illusions -- #34 The Brain's Representation of the Body Is Accurate and Stable -- Body Knowledge -- Bodily Illusions -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Myths about Brain Disorder and Illness.

#35 Brain Injury and Concussion Myths -- Myths about Symptoms and Recovery -- Don't Underestimate Concussion -- Prejudice and Support -- #36 Amnesia Myths -- The Myths -- When Truth Is Stranger than Fiction -- Other Forms of Amnesia -- #37 Coma Myths -- Coma and Vegetative State -- Coma Facts -- Coma Myths -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Brain Death -- #38 Epilepsy Myths -- Basic Myths and Facts -- Portrayals of Epilepsy in Popular Culture -- #39 Autism Myths -- #40 Dementia Myths -- There Is Light in the Darkness -- #41 The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Mental Illness -- The Reality -- Overturning the Myth -- Notes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.

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