Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index.
Contents
Brain facts -- The brain before 25 -- Antics and the prefrontal cortex -- The cingulate gyrus and cognitive flexibility -- Emotions and bonding : meet the limbic brain -- Anxiety and the basal ganglia -- The devastating impact of drugs and alcohol -- Other ways we hurt the brain -- When the brain struggles -- Getting to know other people's brains -- Adapting your brain to the brains of others -- How to shape the young brain -- Kill the ANTs -- Eat right to think right -- Body time to boost the mind -- Working the brain to be smarter -- Relaxing the brain -- The two-week brain smart plan.
