Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind: The Mind

by Emily Anthes, Scientific American, Steve Mirsky (Foreword)

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds).

Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturization required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think faster) to why being bad feels so good (yes, there's a biochemical explanation).
Whether you're a fan of Scientific American 's wildly popular "60-Second Science" podcast or just curious about science, you're going to love the tingly way your synapses feel after enjoying the same bite-sized knowledge in The Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind .

Genres: Science, Psychology, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 2008

About the author

Emily Anthes is an award-winning science journalist and author. Her new book, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness, will be published in June 2020 by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her previous book, Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts, was long-listed for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, and elsewhere. Emily has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Reviews

[Pierre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not one star because for people who know absolutely nothing about the subject it is an OK overview of the topics and terminology.

[Dgg32 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A simple book about our brain. Easy to follow, good for non-neuroscienst. However, there are too many unknown about our mind, how it functions and its chemical natural, a lot of the topics are still only speculations. The book handles such uncertainty well: it provides with references and appears to be plausible.

Fast read though IMHO a bit expensive for this amount of information.

[janice moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dummies book on the Brain

Extraordinary info for laymen and Very helpful for an aging male. I currently am beginning to have memory problems but my ability to collect and understand information is still good. Great to learn that some of my memory concerns are natural and most likely due to aging. Thank you!!!!!!!

[Hasinah Ozair · Rating 4 out of 5]

it good in explaining the brains in a simpler way! and its fun!

[Trudy Nye · Rating 5 out of 5]

Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind is a well-written, at times humorous, and very informative look at the human brain. Fun!

[Zeke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Personally, i thought it was a good guide to simple neuroscience, (as if neuroscience was simple), and a good book to look through.

[Vader · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish

[Kimeduc8r · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent intro! wide range of subjects, but only 2 pages on each