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| Introduction | |
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| Exercise Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power | |
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| Our brains love motion | |
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| The incredible test-score booster | |
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| Will you age like Jim or like Frank? | |
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| How oxygen builds roads for the brain | |
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| Survival Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too | |
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| What's uniquely human about us | |
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| A brilliant survival strategy | |
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| Meet your brain | |
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| How we conquered the world | |
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| Wiring Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently | |
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| Neurons slide, slither, and split | |
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| Experience makes the difference | |
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| Furious brain development not once, but twice | |
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| The Jennifer Aniston neuron | |
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| Attention Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things | |
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| Emotion matters | |
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| Why there is no such thing as multitasking | |
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| We pay great attention to threats, sex, and pattern matching | |
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| The brain needs a break! | |
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| Short-term memory Rule #5: Repeat to remember | |
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| Memories are volatile | |
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| How details become splattered across the insides of our brains | |
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| How the brain pieces them back together again | |
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| Where memories go | |
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| Long-term memory Rule #6: Remember to repeat | |
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| If you don't repeat this within 30 seconds, you'll forget it | |
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| Spaced repetition cycles are key to remembering | |
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| When floating in water could help your memory | |
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| Sleep Rule #7: Sleep well, think well | |
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| The brain doesn't sleep to rest | |
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| Two armies at war in your head | |
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| How to improve your performance 34 percent in 26 minutes | |
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| Which bird are you? | |
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| Sleep on it! | |
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| Stress Rule #8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way | |
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| Stress is good, stress is bad | |
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| A villain and a hero in the toxic-stress battle | |
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| Why the home matters to the workplace | |
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| Marriage intervention for happy couples | |
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| Sensory integration Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses | |
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| Lessons from a nightclub | |
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| How and why all of our senses work together | |
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| Multisensory learning means better remembering | |
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| What's that smell? | |
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| Vision Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses | |
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| Playing tricks on wine tasters | |
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| You see what your brain wants to see, and it likes to make stuff up | |
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| Throw out your PowerPoint | |
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| Gender Rule #11: Male and female brains are different | |
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| Sexing humans | |
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| The difference between little girl best friends and little boy best friends | |
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| Men favor gist when stressed; women favor details | |
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| A forgetting drug | |
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| Exploration Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers | |
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| Babies are great scientists | |
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| Exploration is aggressive | |
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| Monkey see, monkey do | |
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| Curiosity is everything | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |