The Idiot Brain

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'Compelling and wise and rational.' - Jon Ronson 'A wonderful introduction to neuroscience, and deserves to be widely read.' - Independent Motion sickness. Nightmares. Forgetting people's names. Why did I walk into this room?? For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory, and the impact of these quirks on our daily lives. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to.

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Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, blogger, sometimes-comedian and author. He lives in Cardiff, and is currently an honorary research fellow at the Cardiff University Psychology School. His previous books, including The Idiot Brain, The Happy Brain and Psycho-Logical, have been international bestsellers and have sold in twenty-seven countries. Burnett is a regular columnist for the BBC Science Focus Magazine and hosts the podcast Why Does This Thing Exist? with Simon Feeley; he previously wrote the science column 'Brain Flapping' for The Guardian, which was read over sixteen million times.

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