In vivid, highly accessible language, he explains how the brain controls appetite, sleep, memory, hearing, touch, attention, and other processes and how it works when we fall in love, become delusional, or convince ourselves that we’re brilliant when we are not. “It’s undeniably impressive, but it’s far from perfect, and these imperfections influence everything humans say, do and experience.” Sustaining that tone throughout, the author traces the habits, traits, and inefficiencies of the organ that defines us. “You have only to look at the thing to grasp how ridiculous it is it resembles a mutant walnut, a Lovecraftian blancmange, a decrepit boxing glove, and so on,” he writes. In this witty and informative debut, popular Guardian science blogger and sometime stand-up comedian Burnett (Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences/Cardiff Univ.) describes “the weird and peculiar processes” of the brain and the bizarre behaviors that often result. A neuroscientist’s irreverent guide to the brain.
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