Sandra Aamodt

Sam Wang

Challenges popular myths while drawing on recent findings in neuroscience to offer insight into how the human brain actually works, sharing additional information on a wide variety of topics, from the brain's role in religious beliefs and ways of coping with jet lag to the differences between male and female brains.

Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

Welcome to Your Brain

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“If diets worked, we'd all be thin by now. Instead, we have enlisted hundreds of millions of people into a war we can't win." What’s the secret to losing weight? If you’re like most of us, you’ve tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar for Splenda. The real secret is that all of those things are likely to make you weigh more in a few years, not less. In fact, a good predictor of who will gain weight is who says they plan to lose some. Last year, 108 million Americans went on diets, to the applause of doctors, family, and friends. But long-term studies of dieters consistently find that they’re more likely to end up gaining weight in the next two to fifteen years than people who don’t diet. Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt spent three decades in her own punishing cycle of starving and regaining before turning her scientific eye to the research on weight and health. What she found defies the conventional wisdom about dieting: ·Telling children that they’re overweight makes them more likely to gain weight over the next few years. Weight shaming has the same effect on adults. ·The calories you absorb from a slice of pizza depend on your genes and on your gut bac­teria. So does the number of calories you’re burning right now. ·Most people who lose a lot of weight suffer from obsessive thoughts, binge eating, depres­sion, and anxiety. They also burn less energy and find eating much more rewarding than it was before they lost weight. ·Fighting against your body’s set point—a cen­tral tenet of most diet plans—is exhausting, psychologically damaging, and ultimately counterproductive. If dieting makes us fat, what should we do instead to stay healthy and reduce the risks of diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related conditions? With clarity and candor, Aamodt makes a spirited case for abandoning diets in favor of behav­iors that will truly improve and extend our lives.

The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

Why Diets Make Us Fat

Neuroscientists Aamodt and Wang illuminate how children's brains grow - and how they can be nurtured, scientifically, to reach their full potential. The authors investigate common child-rearing wisdom, exposing bad brain trainingA" products and the ways parents most influence a child's personality. They explain why playing outside improves vision, why teenagers stay up late, and why learning a second language increases empathy. And they share amusing experiments that will let every parent watch a child's grey matter at work. Filled with myth-busting facts and clever advice, this is an indispensable, entertaining guide to your child's brain.

How the Mind Grows from Birth to University

Welcome to Your Child's Brain

"How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries--and difficulties--of parenthood. The marketplace is full of gadgets and tools that claim to make your child smarter, happier, or learn languages faster, all built on the premise that manufacturers know something about your child's brain that you don't. These products are easy to sell, because good information about how children's minds really work is hard to come by. In their new book, neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang separate fact from fiction about the inner workings of young minds. Martialing results from new studies and classic research, Aamodt and Wang provide the most complete answers out there on this subject. It liberates readers from superstitions and speculation, such as Freud's idea that all relationships are modeled on one's mother, or that it's not safe to eat sushi while pregnant. And it will reveal new truths about everything from how to make your baby sleep, to why we love to snuggle, to how children learn, forget, play, talk, walk, and feel. Welcome to Your Child's Brain is eye-opening and necessary, soon to become a staple for parents and children alike"--

how the mind grows from conception to college

Welcome to your child's brain

Challenges popular myths while drawing on recent findings in neuroscience to offer insight into how the human brain works, sharing information on topics ranging from the brain's role in religious beliefs to the differences between male and female brains.

Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior

Does drinking really kill brain cells? Does listening to Mozart make your baby smarter? For all the mileage we've gotten from our own brains, most of us have essentially no idea how they work. We're easily susceptible to myths (like the "fact" that we use only 10% of our brains) and misconceptions (like the ones perpetrated by most Hollywood movies), probably because we've never known where to turn for the truth. But neurologists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang are glad to help. In this funny, accessible book, we get a guided tour of our own minds, what they're made of, how they work, and how they can go wrong. Along the way, we get a host of diagrams, quizzes, and "cocktail party tips" that shed light on the questions we nag each other about. (Can a head injury make you forget your own name? Are dolphins smarter than chimpanzees?) Fun and surprisingly engrossing, Welcome to Your Brain shows you how your brain works, and how you can make it work better.

Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life

Samuel Wang

Freuen Sie sich darauf, das Gehirn Ihres Kindes kennenzulernen. WELCOME TO YOUR CHILD’S BRAIN * ist ein hochkompetentes Buch über die Entwicklung des Geistes vom Säuglingsalter bis zu dem Zeitpunkt, an dem die Kinder das Elternhaus verlassen; * erklärt Eltern und Erziehern, wie Kinder und Jugendliche «ticken», wie sie denken und fühlen; * widmet sich Topthemen wie Schlafproblemen, Sprachenlernen, den wirklichen Unterschieden zwischen Mädchen und Jungen, ADHS, schulischem und beruflichem Erfolg; * sagt Ihnen, wann wirklich Anlass zur Sorge besteht, wie Sie darauf reagieren sollen und wann Sie sich in Ruhe zurücklehnen können; * räumt mit Mythen auf und stürzt alte Weisheiten vom Thron; * verbindet Wissenschaft mit Lesespaß: Interessante Geschichten und Informationen, praktische Tipps, witzige Illustrationen sowie ein Quiz machen die Lektüre zum Vergnügen. Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung des Bestsellers «Welcome to Your Brain. Ein respektloser Führer durch die Welt unseres Gehirns». «Endlich vermittelt ein Buch das Geschehen unter unserer Schädeldecke unterhaltsam, verständlich und auf dem Höhepunkt der Forschung.» (Eva Tenzer, «Bild der Wissenschaft» über «Welcome to Your Brain»)

Die Entwicklung des kindlichen Gehirns von der Zeugung bis zum Reifezeugnis

Welcome to your Child's Brain

- When I drink, am I killing my brain cells? - Does cramming for an exam work? - Why can't you tickle yourself? - Can you improve your brain with video games? - Why is looking at a photograph harder than playing chess? Written with a light touch, but using hard science, Welcome to your Brain will answer all the questions you've ever had about how that amazing three pounds in your skull works - and how you can help it work better. Written by two top neuroscientists, they dispel all the myths (such as we only ever use 10% of our brains!), and show how understanding your brain can also be useful. Full of practical tips for improving your noggin, as well plenty of stories to amuse your friends, Welcome to your Brain will be the most accessible, and the most fascinating, book on your grey matter that you could ever hope to read.

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