Great Myths Of The Brain (PDF) ⋆ Book Box PDF

Praise for Great Myths of the Brain
Great Myths of Psychology

Introduction
The Urgent Need for Neuro Myth-Busting
About This Book
The Need for Humility
A Primer on Basic Brain Anatomy, Techniques, and Terminology

l Defunct Myths

Myth #l Thought Resides in the Heart
Myth #2 The Brain Pumps Animal Spirits Round the Body
Myth #3 Brain Cells Join Together Forming a Huge Nerve Net
Myth #4 Mental Function Resides in the Brain’s Hollows

2 Myth-Based Brain Practices

Myth #5 Drilling a Hole in the Skull Releases Evil Spirits
Myth #6 Personality Can Be Read in the Bumps on the Skull
Myth #7 Mental Illness Can Be Cured by Disconnecting the Frontal Lobes

3 Mythical Case Studies

Myth #8 Brain Injury Turned Neuroscience’s Most Famous Case into an Impulsive Brute
Myth #9 The Faculty of Language Production Is Distributed Through the Brain
Myth #10 Memory Is Distributed Throughout the Entire Cortex

4 The Immortal Myths

Myth #11 We onlyT use ten percent of Our Brains
Myth #12 Right-Brained People Are More Creative
Myth #13 The Female Brain Is More Balanced (and Other Gender-Based Brain Myths)
Myth #14 Adults Can’t Grow New Brain Cells
Myth #15 There’s a God Spot in the Brain (and Other Lesser-Spotted Myths)
Myth #16 Pregnant Women Lose Their Minds
Myth #17 We All Need Eight Hours of Continuous Sleep (and Other DozyT Sleep Myths)
Myth #18 The Brain Is a Computer
Myth #19 The Mind Can Exist Outside of the Brain
Myth #20 Neuroscience Is Transforming Human Self-Understanding

5 Myths about the Physical Structure of the Brain