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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Brain"

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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

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

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

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

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

Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence

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

Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking (Self-Improvement Book to Optimize Your Brain Health and Wellness)

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

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

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

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

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

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

The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

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

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

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

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

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)

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

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

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

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

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

Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

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

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

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

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

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

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

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity

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

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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

Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

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

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

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

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

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

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

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

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

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

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

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

Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick

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

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

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

Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

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

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

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

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

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

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

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

Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age

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

Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering

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

Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

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

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

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

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

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

When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

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

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

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“ I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains. ”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“ When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an" ) ...more ”
― Erik Pevernagie

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