Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
El peligro de estar cuerda
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
The Brain: The Story of You
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
How the Mind Works
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Principles of Neural Science

Michio Kaku
Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce outcomes that are desirable and pleasurable, in which case the pleasure centers of the brain light up (in the nucleus accumbens and the hypothalamus). On the other hand, these outcomes may also have a downside to them, so the orbitofrontal cortex kicks ...more
Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

Dan    Brown
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Dan Brown, Inferno

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