Smarter
Subtitle: the new science of building brain power
By: Dan Hurley
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781594631276
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Brain; Popular works; Mental efficiency
Description: With vivid stories of lives transformed, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with acid-tongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig, road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing transcranial direct current stimulation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expading the mind's workspace: the pioneers who overturned a century of dogma --; title: Measure of a man: testing my brain before I train --; title: A good brain trainer is hard to find: a skeptic's guide to what does (and does not) work --; title: Old-school brain training: training methods of the ancients --; title: Smart pills and thinking caps: the promise and peril of sci-fi methods --; title: Boot camp for my brain: setting up my training regimen --; title: Are you smarter than a mouse?: the biological and evolutionary basis of human intelligence --; title: Defenders of the faith: meetings with the arch-skeptic --; title: Flowers for Ts65Dn: the search for a drug for Down syndrome --; title: Clash of the titans: a tale of five scientific meetings --; title: Final exam: my post-training results.