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The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. Only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain; diffuse or localized nerve nets are present instead. The brain is located in the head, usually close to the primary sensory organs for such senses as vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell. The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. ...more

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life

Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD

The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change

Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

Primal Intelligence: You Are Smarter Than You Know

The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence

Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?

Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls

The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking | Optimize Your Brain Health and Wellness

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

Tiny Traumas: When You Don't Know What's Wrong, But Nothing Feels Quite Right

Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity

How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

Tak działa mózg. Jak mądrze dbać o jego funkcjonowanie

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are

The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours

Your Brain Is Always Listening: Tame the Hidden Dragons That Control Your Happiness, Habits, and Hang-Ups

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind

A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

Why We Forget and How To Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

The Power of Self-Discipline: 5-Minute Exercises to Build Self-Control, Good Habits, and Keep Going When You Want to Give Up (Live a Disciplined Life, #3)

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn

Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day

Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering

Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You

Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond

Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It

Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age

The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure

Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

Super Learning: Advanced Strategies for Quicker Comprehension, Greater Retention, and Systematic Expertise

The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery

Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals

Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music

The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition

Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain

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Quotes Tagged “Brain”

“ How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all. ”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

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“ No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. ...more ”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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