David Adam

The Genius Within (eBook, ePUB)

Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Witty, sharp and enlightening . . . This book will make you smarter' - Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill?

In The Genius Within, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam, explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works - to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent.

Sharing his own experiments with revolutionary smart drugs and electrical brain stimulation, he delves into the sinister history of intelligence tests, meets savants and brain hackers and reveals how he boosted his own IQ to cheat his way into Mensa.

Are you ready to challenge your perception of intelligence and start your adventure of cognitive expansion? Unmask the genius within you with this compelling dive into cognitive neuroscience and the human mind's immense potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509805044
• Artikelnr.: 50474286

Autorenporträt

Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world's top scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. During this time he was named feature writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers, and reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle.

Inhaltsangabe

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o Introduction - i: Introduction
* Chapter - 1: Our Brain Revolution
* Chapter - 2: Mensa Material
* Chapter - 3: A Problem of Intelligence
* Chapter - 4: Treating and Cheating
* Chapter - 5: Pills and Skills
* Chapter - 6: The Mutual Autopsy Society
* Chapter - 7: Born with Brains
* Chapter - 8: Current Thinking
* Chapter - 9: The Man Who Learned to Cry
* Chapter - 10: The Brain and Other Muscles
* Chapter - 11: The Little Girl Who Could Draw
* Chapter - 12: The Genius Within
* Chapter - 13: The Happiest Man on Death Row
* Chapter - 14: On the Brain Train
* Chapter - 15: Faster, Stronger, Smarter
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o Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements
o Section - iii: References

Rezensionen

Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter Adam Rutherford