The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
- Downloads：4729
- Type：Epub+TxT+PDF+Mobi
- Create Date：2022-08-04 03:19:35
- Update Date：2025-09-07
- Status：finish
- Author：Chantel Prat
- ISBN：B09KXLHD42
- Environment：PC/Android/iPhone/iPad/Kindle
Reviews
Brittany
，
Read my full review here: https://www。between-bookends。com/2022。。。 Read my full review here: https://www。between-bookends。com/2022。。。 。。。more
D。 Prat
，
Let’s talk about brains！ Not usually the type of book I’d grab first。 This is a great book and gave me many insights into how my brain works and an appreciation for how others might work。 The way it is written is not too Sciency。 It’s more like as if you were just having a chat with neuroscientist with a great sense of humor。 It makes you laugh and that adds to the enjoyment of the adventure！ Favorite chapter: “Connect”。 Enjoy and learn！
Paul Vogelzang
，
Great book and fun to read。 I learned much and will interview Chantel Prat about her amazing work。
Mayda （My Book Cafe Life）
，
The Neuroscience of You has great information about the brain and it’s working mechanism。 As well as some exercises and tests。 I sadly didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought。 I found it to be more research and reference focused rather than an actual educational conversation or thorough analysis about the subject。 It also felt more of a personal essay and how it applied to the author， more so than how your brain works for you。While I didn’t love it， I would recommend it。
James Treyens
，
What a great and fun book！ I highly recommend it！ This book has something for everyone， from those with no prior exposure to neuroscience to those of us who have spent years studying it but sometimes lose the forest for the trees。 Chantel Prat teaches us about neuroscience in an engaging， fun （and funny） way。 She opens up the world of neuroscience in the way Carl Sagan opened up the cosmos。 She uses stories to show how neuroscience has helped her understand why she is the way she is， as well as What a great and fun book！ I highly recommend it！ This book has something for everyone， from those with no prior exposure to neuroscience to those of us who have spent years studying it but sometimes lose the forest for the trees。 Chantel Prat teaches us about neuroscience in an engaging， fun （and funny） way。 She opens up the world of neuroscience in the way Carl Sagan opened up the cosmos。 She uses stories to show how neuroscience has helped her understand why she is the way she is， as well as why each of us is the way we are， and she does this with great enthusiasm and humor。 She even contrasts her brain with the brains of those to whom she is closest， her husband and daughter。 I really appreciate this since one of my own motivations in studying neuroscience and psychology has been to understand why I seem so different from most people I know。 Throughout the book she shows how neuroscience can help you understand why you are the way you are， and why you are unique and different from everyone else。Prat’s own career has focused on understanding individual differences， and she uses her own research as well as that of many others to stress that everyone is unique。 Her perspective is very different from those who might be interested in classifying people as “normal” or “abnormal” on various dimensions。 She is interested in where each person lies on a variety of measures， for example， how they utilize each hemisphere of the brain or how their mix of neurotransmitters （the chemicals neurons use to communicate with each other） might be different from others， and how this helps or hinders a person in particular situations。 She also provides many tests， exercises， and games （both in the book and on the associated website） that give you insight into how your own brain is organized and how it is different from others。Another theme in the book is that because research cognitive psychologists have focused on trying to describe the “normal” or average brain in understanding brain function， often eliminating from their studies people categorized as not normal， and because their results are typically presented as summaries or averages， they sometimes completely miss what is going on in individual brains。 In the worst case， they describe a mythical average brain which is in fact different from almost any actual person’s brain。 Prat illustrates this in her own research on how the left and right hemispheres of the brain work together in language understanding， and how they work differently in different people。As a researcher， Prat does not oversimplify how our brains work， and she accurately describes neuroscience as a work in progress， where we are always learning new things about the brain and revising what we thought we previously knew。 This gives the book an integrity that is sometimes lacking in books written for people new to a field。The book is divided into two parts。 The first part focuses on what Prat calls brain designs， or how differences in the biology of different people’s brains influence the way they think， feel， and behave。 The second part focuses on brain functions， primarily how people’s brains interact with their environments to enable them to act and adapt in their worlds。Neuroscience of You is full of fun facts and stories， while also informing you about some of the latest research in neuroscience。 Read it for fun and to learn， and then reread it。 I guarantee that each time you read it you’ll pick up something new， and if you’re interested in learning more， Prat provides notes that point you to further research on the topics she covers。This is Prat’s first book and we can only hope that there will be many more to come！ 。。。more
Andrea Stocco
，
I had a chance to read this book before it came out and。。。 WOW， what a surprise！ As a neuroscientist myself， I had grown tired of the many books that come out every year about the brain。 They mostly rely on old neuroscience tenets of what a given part of the brain does， while the field， instead， has moved in new directions and began dealing with the brain networks and individual variations。 Prat's book， instead， takes you straight at the center of these problems！ With a funny， entertaining style I had a chance to read this book before it came out and。。。 WOW， what a surprise！ As a neuroscientist myself， I had grown tired of the many books that come out every year about the brain。 They mostly rely on old neuroscience tenets of what a given part of the brain does， while the field， instead， has moved in new directions and began dealing with the brain networks and individual variations。 Prat's book， instead， takes you straight at the center of these problems！ With a funny， entertaining style， Prat goes through the many different ways in which small differences in brain structure， neurochemistry， neural oscillations， and experiences gives rise to the differences in thinking and the personality quirks that make each person unique。 The book is surprisingly deep， detailed， and up-to-date with the most exciting science in the field， and yet Prat's ability to explain difficult concepts and scaffold the material keeps it a pleasure to read。 She is， quite literally， the teacher we all have hoped to have。 So， while laughing at her anecdotes and being bedazzled by the juicy trivia （including a meta-trivia on why we find trivia so interesting！）， you find yourself learning about how brain-computer interfaces work or how machine learning can be used to read your thoughts from a brain scan。 Perhaps what comes though most strongly is Prat's genuine love for the brain and for how unique and interesting everyone is， once we stop putting them onto bins and start looking at how everyone works。 Definitely a must read， I can't recommend this book enough！ 。。。more
Kelly Paradis
，