Free download Your Brain: A User’s Guide: 100 Things You Never Knew by National Geographic. Improve Brain Health Challenge Your Mind Latest Discoveries. English | PDF | 131 Pages | ASIN : B06XK3X13C
Description of Your Brain: A User’s Guide
Both a practical owner’s manual and a complete guide to the brain’s development and function, this valuable reference explores not only the brain’s physical form—its 100 billion nerve cells and near-infinite network of synapses—but the interactions that regulate every thought and action.
The brain should need no introduction. After all, the brain is what makes you you. But it’s a paradox that the organ that lets you understand the world understands so little about itself. Now, thanks to stunning research building upon decades-no, centuries-of investigation, science is peeling away the layers of mystery to reveal how three pounds of flesh create an entire universe inside your head.
In this corrugated mass, a staggeringly complex symphony of electrochemical reactions plays out every second of every day. Much of it does so without a conscious conductor. The brain makes the lungs expand with the inruch of air and the heart pump blood. It houses memories, processes sound and sights, smells and tastes, and feelings ranging from the subtle to the sublime.
Beyond the work the brain does automatically comes something far different. Out of the human brain arises consciousness and the mind-the unique ability of Homo sapiens, “wise man,” to be aware of being aware.
It include
- The inner workings of our body’s most complex organ
- Foods for mental fitness
- Mysteries revealed, such as why listening to music tunes up your brain