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| The First Brain | |
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| It All Starts Here | |
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| Nature's Marvel | |
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| The Baby Brain | |
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| You Were Smarter As a Kid | |
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| Assembly Not Required | |
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| The Specialists | |
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| Daily Revelations | |
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| The Great Unknown | |
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| From Stone Age to Sculptors | |
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| Prehistoric Brain Surgery | |
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| Mummies Weren't Too Bright | |
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| The Great Greeks | |
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| Science Takes a Holiday | |
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| From Darkness to Light | |
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| A Form of Barbarism | |
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| Knowledge of the Brain Evolves | |
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| I Think Therefore | |
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| A Place in the Heart | |
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| Out of Sight | |
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| What Do You See? | |
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| Quack, Quack | |
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| You're Electric | |
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| Oops! I Mean, Eureka! | |
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| Finding the Controls | |
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| Pavlov's Dogs | |
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| We're All Scientists Here | |
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| Finding the Bugs | |
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| An Engaging Case | |
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| "The Book That Shook the World" | |
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| Real Brain Surgery | |
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| Restricted Area | |
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| The Century's Crazy End | |
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| "Modern Thinking" | |
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| Sex, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis | |
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| Mind Matters | |
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| I'm a Surgeon, Neurosurgeon | |
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| Controversial Cures | |
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| New Tools for the Trade | |
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| Your Own Painkiller | |
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| Decade of the Brain | |
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| Anatomy 101 | |
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| The Commander-in-Chief | |
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| Your Hard Hat and Other Protective Devices | |
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| The Thinking Part | |
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| Multiple Brains | |
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| Small but Important | |
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| The Coordinator | |
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| Lobes: They're Not Just for the Ears | |
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| Walking a Straight Line | |
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| Not Really the Middle | |
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| At the Base of It All | |
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| Remembering the Limbic System | |
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| The Glands Have It | |
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| The Real Information Superhighway | |
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| Thinking Systematically | |
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| 100 Billion Cells Can't Be Wrong | |
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| Closing the Gap | |
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| Now for the Hard Part | |
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| You've Got Nerve(s) | |
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| What's Your Function? | |
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| Numero Uno | |
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| For Your Eyes Only | |
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| A Sensitive Face | |
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| Testing 1, 2, 3 ... | |
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| Gulp and Inhale | |
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| Stick Out Your Tongue | |
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| The Human Computer | |
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| Speak Now! | |
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| The Origin of Babble | |
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| From the Mouths of Babes | |
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| Back to Broca and Wernicke | |
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| The ABCs | |
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| Say What You Hear | |
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| Making Sense of It All | |
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| Mind's Eye | |
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| An Ear for It | |
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| On the Scent | |
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| Yum and Yuck | |
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| How Touching | |
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| The Sixth Sense: More Than a Movie | |
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| Life's Necessities | |
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| Eat, Drink, and Be Merry | |
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| Sweet Slumber | |
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| Sex Is a Drive | |
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| The Body's Autopilot | |
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| Your Internal Thermostat | |
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| Energize! | |
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| Stressed Out | |
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| The Conservationist | |
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| Knee-Jerk Reactions | |
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| Holding It | |
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| Really Letting Go | |
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| It's Your Choice | |
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| On Balance | |
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| More Than Five Senses | |
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| Turning Green | |
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| The Pyramids | |
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| Penfield's Map | |
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| Put the Hammer Down | |
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| Now Draw! | |
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| From Physical to Mental | |
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| Acting Out | |
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| Blackboard of the Mind | |
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| Memories ... | |
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| Hidden Messages | |
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| Pigeonholes | |
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| Time to Decide | |
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| Drawing a Blank | |
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| Going, Going, Gone | |
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| Bulking up Memory | |
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| Eat Smart | |
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| Try to Remember ... | |
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| The Feeling Brain | |
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| Feelings First? | |
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| Going Ballistic | |
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| Oh Happy Day | |
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| The Prickly Things on Your Neck | |
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| Life-Changing Stress | |
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| Lie Detector | |
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| Emotional Intelligence | |
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| You've Got Brain | |
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| What Is Intelligence? | |
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| How Smart Are You? | |
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| What's Your Gift? | |
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| Low IQ | |
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| The Real Rain Man | |
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| Size Matters | |
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| Two Brains Are Better ... | |
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| Da Vinci, Mozart, and You | |
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| Einstein's Brain | |
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| The 10 Percent Myth | |
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| Mad Genius | |
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| Formula for Thought | |
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| The Sick Brain | |
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| The Computer Crashes | |
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| Trauma: More Than a Little Bump | |
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| Two Scary Words: Brain Tumor | |
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| Catching a Brain Disease | |
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| Hereditary Degenerative Diseases | |
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| Congenital Anomalies | |
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| Brain Attack | |
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| Brain Death | |
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| Headaches and Neurological Disorders | |
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| Your Aching Head | |
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| Trigeminal Neuralgia | |
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| Cerebral Palsy | |
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| Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Dudley's Disease | |
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| Epilepsy | |
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| Multiple Sclerosis | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus | |
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| Mad Cow Disease | |
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| Tics and Tones | |
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| Facing the Fear | |
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| Drugs and Demons | |
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| Society's Problem | |
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| Alcoholism | |
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| Nicotine | |
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| Marijuana | |
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| Cocaine | |
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| Heroin | |
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| Hallucinogens | |
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| Uppers and Downers | |
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| The "Date Rape Drug" | |
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| Crossed Wiring | |
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| It's All in Your Head | |
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| From Behind Closed Doors | |
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| No Shortage of Disorders | |
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| Psychosis and Schizophrenia | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Phobias | |
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| Beyond the Blues | |
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| Bipolar Disorder | |
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| Autism | |
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| ADHD | |
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| Treatment (Couches, Shocks, Pills, and the Knife) | |
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| Say "Ahh!" | |
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| Getting to Know You | |
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| A Stab in the Back | |
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| How Electrifying | |
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| Checking Your Potentials | |
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| Waves Don't Lie | |
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| Take a Little Piece | |
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| A Bunch of "Ographies" | |
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| Scans Galore | |
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| Trick or Treatment | |
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| Better Living Through Chemistry | |
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| The Placebo Effect | |
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| Let's Talk | |
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| Off With Your Brain | |
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| Under the Knife | |
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| Brain Tumors | |
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| Cerebral Aneurysms and Arteriovenous Malformations | |
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| Stroke | |
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| Treatments vs. Cures | |
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| We're Getting Smarter | |
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| Mistaken Science | |
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| Genius for Genes | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas of Modern Science | |
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| From the Stem | |
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| Hello Dolly! | |
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| Deep Blue | |
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| A New Brain? | |
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| From Our Brains to Yours | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Food for the Brain: Resources | |
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| Test Your IQ | |
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| Index | |