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Think before you think: understanding your brain's mission control
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Our brains are miraculous things. Through a set of processes called executive functions, they drive everything over the course of our lives, allowing us to create and retrieve memories, understand our own and others' emotions, plan our short- and long-term goals, and much more. Drawing on gripping case studies and cutting-edge research, neuroscientist Adrian Owen maps out the architecture of our brains and these executive functions. From encounters with memory champions, athletes who have suffered multiple concussions and patients with conditions such as ADHD, autism, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, he reveals the importance of these functions not only to the potential of our brains but to our very ways of being.
- Genres
- Health
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Guardian Books
- ISBN
- 9781783352982
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