Secrets of the Brain by Scientific American

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Title Page
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Maintenance and Monitoring
1.1 The Seventh Sense
1.2 Brain Drain
1.3 Deep Sleep Gives Your Brain a Deep Clean
1.4 Sleep Learning Gets Real
1.5 Sleep Deprivation Halts Production of Brain Proteins
SECTION 2 Navigating Space and Time
2.1 Where Am I? Where Am I Going?
2.2 Times of Our Lives
2.3 The Tick Tock of the Biological Clock
SECTION 3 Intuition
3.1 Without a Thought
3.2 The Powers and Perils of Intuition
3.3 Can We Rely on Our Intuition?
SECTION 4 Creating Reality
4.1 How Matter Becomes Mind
4.2 Our Inner Universes
4.3 Learning When No One Is Watching
SECTION 5 The Ultimate Question
5.1 Partly-Revived Pig Brains Raise Questions about When Life Ends
5.2 Is Death Reversible?
5.3 How Can We Tell If a Comatose Patient Is Conscious?