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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Your Changeable Brain: Neurogenesis, Neuroplasticity, and Epigenetics | |
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| The Birth of Brain Cells: Neurogenesis | |
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| Changes in Your Brain: Neuroplasticity | |
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| Changes in Your Genes: Epigenetics | |
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| Keeping Your New Brain Cells | |
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| No Pain, No Gain | |
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| Brain Training Programs: Help or Hype? | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Boosting Your Brain Power | |
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| The Brave New. Pharmacy | |
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| Juicing the Brain: The "Smart Drugs" | |
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| The Caveats: Are These Really "Smart Pills"-and Are They Safe? | |
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| Six Drug-Free Ways to Boost Your Brain | |
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| Boosting Your Brain with Meditation | |
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| Meditation Means Changing Your Brain | |
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| Whats Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Manipulating Your Memory | |
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| Memories Are Made of This-We Hope | |
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| How Memory Works-the Short Version | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease: The Memory Epidemic | |
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| What We Know Now About Dementia | |
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| Marijuana to Ward Off Alzheimer's? Wow. Like, Cool | |
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| Making Memories Stick Around | |
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| Erasing Bad Memories: A Morning-After Pill for the Brain | |
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| The Toll of Mental Illness-and Anxiety | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Digital You: What the Digital Explosion Is Doing to Your iBrain | |
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| Are You Born Digital-or a Digital Immigrant? | |
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| The Brains of Digital Natives | |
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| The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown Effects of Technology | |
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| The Future Is Closer Than You Think | |
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| Uses of the Digital You | |
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| What About My Body? Balancing the iBrain and Your Sensory Self | |
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| Beyond Digital: The Serious Need for Play | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Looking Inside Your Brain: The Magic of Neuroimaging | |
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| Smile, Say Cheese? Not Exactly: How an MRI Works | |
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| Picture This: Psychopath, Pedophile, Autistic Toddler | |
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| Scanning the Other Half of Your Brain: Why White Matter Matters | |
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| The Limits of Brain Scans | |
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| The Five Flaws of Brain Scans | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Rewiring the Brain Electric | |
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| The Electrical Revolution: A History of Hot-Wiring Your Head | |
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| The Current Brain Research: Magnets to Implants | |
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| Discovering Depression's Sweet Spot | |
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| Could Implants Help Alzheimer's Patients? | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Your Bionic Brain: The Merging of Brain with Machines | |
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| Spare Parts | |
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| Bionic Brain Research Today | |
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| The Britannica in Your Brain-and More | |
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| Artificial Retinas: Giving Sight to the Blind | |
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| An Artificial Hippocampus? | |
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| Putting Thoughts into Action | |
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| How and Why Your Brain Is Better Than a Computer-for Now | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| The Possible Dreams: Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and Nanotechnology | |
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| The Future of Stem Cells | |
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| Retinal Stem Cells from Adults Show Promise | |
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| The Promise of Gene Therapy | |
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| Nanomedicine | |
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| What's Next? And What About My Brain? | |
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| Neuroethics: Facing the Dark Side | |
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| Stem Cells: Still Fighting After All These Years | |
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| Liar, Liar: Can Brain Scans Reveal the Truth? | |
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| Responsibility: My Sick Brain Made Me Do It (The Devil Made Me Do It?) | |
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| Privacy Bias, and Self-incrimination | |
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| Psychotreatment: Should We Force Psychopharmacological Therapies? | |
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| Mental Doping on the Rise: They Jail Athletes, Don's They | |
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| Issues Yet to Come: A Future of Busy Lawyers | |
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| The Past Is Prologue: To the Future | |
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| Sources | |
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| Illustration Credits | |
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| Glossary | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |