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Praise for The Scientific American Brave New Brain
"In The Scientific American Brave New Brain Judith Horstman takes us on a delightful—and hopeful—tour of the near-future of neuroscience and how we can all benefit."
—Daniel Goleman, author, Emotional Intelligence
"Judith Horstman's newest book is a gift of fascinating, useful information on how to understand and optimize the most important organ in your body. She also shows you the future of brain science and how it will enhance our lives, along with some of the pitfalls. The book is beautifully written, accessible, and important. I highly recommend it."
—Daniel G. Amen, MD, author, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
"This excellent book is about wonder. Judith Horstman gathers all the latest research on the brain and gazes into the future to see the fascinating ways our lives will be changed by the neuroscience of tomorrow."
—R. Douglas Fields, author, The Other Brain
"All curious brains will enjoy this book very much: it's a clear, useful, and entertaining guide to the latest research concerning the brain and how we may be protecting and boosting it in the near future."
—Kim Stanley Robinson, best-selling author, Galileo's Dream
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Meet the Author
Judith Horstman is the author of The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain, the first book in this series of titles copublished with Scientific American. She's an award-winning science journalist and author whose work has appeared in USA Today and numerous other newspapers and magazines; in publications by Harvard, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins universities; and is the author of four other books. Visit her Web site at www.JudithHorstman.com
Scientific American is one of the most popular science magazines in the world.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Introduction.
1 Your Changeable Brain.
How Your Brain Changes: Neurogenesis, Neuroplasticity, and Epigenetics.
The Birth of Brain Cells: Neurogenesis.
Changes in Your Brain: Neuroplasticity.
Changes in Your Genes: Epigenetics.
Keeping Your New Brain Cells.
No Pain, No Gain.
Brain Training Programs: Help or Hype?
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
2 Boosting Your Brain Power.
The Brave New Pharmacy.
Juicing the Brain: The “Smart Drugs”.
The Caveats: Are These Really “Smart Pills”—and Are They Safe?
Six Drug-Free Ways to Boost Your Brain.
Boosting Your Brain with Meditation.
Meditation Means Changing Your Brain.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
3 Manipulating Your Memory.
Memories Are Made of This—We Hope.
How Memory Works—The Short Version.
Alzheimer's Disease: The Memory Epidemic.
What We Know Now About Dementia.
Marijuana to Ward Off Alzheimer's? Wow. Like, Cool.
Making Memories Stick Around.
A Method for Erasing Bad Memories Without Medication.
The Toll of Mental Illness––and Anxiety.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
4 Digital You: What the Digital Explosion Is Doing to Your iBrain.
Are You Born Digital––or a Digital Immigrant?
The Brains of Digital Natives.
The Bad, the Good and the Unknown Effects of Technology.
The Future Is Closer Than You Think.
Uses of the Digital You.
What About My Body? Balancing the iBrain and Your Sensory Self.
Beyond Digital: The Serious Need for Play.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
5 Looking Inside Your Brain.
Windows into Your Brain.
Smile, Say Cheese? Not Exactly: How An MRI Works.
Picture this: Psychopath, Pedophile, Autistic Toddler.
Scanning the Other Half of Your Brain: Why White Matter Matters.
The Limits of Bran Scans.
The Five Flaws of Brain Scans.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
6 Rewiring the Brain Electric.
The Electrical Revolution: A History of Hot-Wiring Your Head.
The Current Brain Research: Magnets to Implants.
Discovering Depression's Sweet Spot.
Implants for Alzheimer's Disease Patients.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
7 Your Bionic Brain: The Merging of Brain with Machines
Spare Parts.
Bionic Brain Research Today.
The Britannica in Your Brain––and More.
Artificial Retinas: Giving Sight to the Blind.
An Artificial Hippocampus?
Putting Thoughts into Action.
How and Why Your Brain Is Better Than a Computer–for Now.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
8 The Possible Dreams: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and Nanotechnology.
The Future of Stem Cells.
Retinal Stem Cells from Adults Show Promise.
The Promise of Gene Therapy.
Nanomedicine.
What's Next? And What About My Brain?
9 Neuroethics: Facing the Dark Side.
Stem Cells: Still Fighting After All These Years.
Liar, Liar: Can Brain Scans Reveal the Truth?
Responsibility: My Sick Brain Made Me Do It (The Devil Made Me Do It)?
Privacy, Bias, and Self-Incrimination.
Psychotreatment: Should We Force Psychopharmacological Therapies?
Mental Doping on the Rise: They Jail Athletes, Don’t They?
Issues Yet to Come: A Future of Busy Lawyers.
10 The Past Is Prologue: To the Future.
Sources.
Illustration Credits.
Glossary.
About the Author.
Index.