The brain is wider than the sky.

The greatest wealth is health.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Our brain's chemical processes influence how we think and act.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Disorders like depression or addiction are related to brain imbalances.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Brain chemicals, like serotonin and dopamine, control mood and motivation.</li></ul>

The brain affects our behavior

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Experiences, especially early in life, impact brain growth and connections.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Stress, trauma, and positive experiences shape how our brain functions.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The brain is very adaptable, especially in the early years.</li></ul>

Brain development is affected by our environment

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Our brain isn’t set in stone; it can change throughout life.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">New experiences or learning can create new neural connections.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">This rewiring helps us learn new skills or recover from injury.</li></ul>

The brain can be rewired

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Eating well, staying active, and keeping our brain challenged helps it stay healthy.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Mental exercises, like learning or solving problems, boost brain power.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Keeping stress levels in check and getting enough sleep also help maintain brain health.</li></ul>

We can take care of our brain

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">From birth, our brains come with certain features and abilities.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Some brain traits are inherited from our parents.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Our environment and experiences help shape how the brain develops over time.</li></ul>

We’re born with a brain already wired

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Conditions like depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia are linked to brain structure and chemistry.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Mental health disorders can be genetic or triggered by life events.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The brain’s functioning can sometimes be disrupted by these conditions.</li></ul>

Mental illnesses come from the brain

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Our personality, beliefs, and even our gender identity are shaped by brain processes.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Certain brain regions are responsible for personality traits and preferences.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Gender identity and sexual orientation are also influenced by brain structure.</li></ul>

The brain determines our identity

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The brain creates our sense of being and awareness.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">What we experience as "consciousness" comes from brain activity.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Understanding consciousness is still a big mystery, but it’s tied to how the brain works.</li></ul>

Our brain and consciousness are connected

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Neurons that fire together, wire together.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Many of our behaviors and mental abilities are determined by our genes.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Our brain structure can be influenced by genetic factors.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">These genetic factors can affect intelligence, talents, and even predispositions to certain conditions.</li></ul>

Genetics play a huge role

<ul><li>Our thoughts, actions, and even our emotions are influenced by our brain.</li><li>The brain controls everything we do, think, and feel.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It’s like the command center of our body.</li></ul>

The brain shapes who we are

Can you change your brain? This book says YES!

A vivid account of what makes us human.   Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential, our limitations, and our desires, with each chapter serving as an eye-opening window on a different stage of brain development: the gender differences that develop in the embryonic brain, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, how parenthood permanently changes the brain.   Moving beyond pure biological understanding, Swaab presents a controversial and multilayered ethical argument surrounding the brain. Far from possessing true free will, Swaab argues, we have very little control over our everyday decisions, or who we will become, because our brains predetermine everything about us, long before we are born, from our moral character to our religious leanings to whom we fall in love with. And he challenges many of our prevailing assumptions about what makes us human, decoding the intricate “moral networks” that allow us to experience emotion, revealing maternal instinct to be the result of hormonal changes in the pregnant brain, and exploring the way that religious “imprinting” shapes the brain during childhood. Rife with memorable case studies, We Are Our Brains is already a bestselling international phenomenon. It aims to demystify the chemical and genetic workings of our most mysterious organ, in the process helping us to see who we are through an entirely new lens.   Did you know?   • The father’s brain is affected in pregnancy as well as the mother’s. • The withdrawal symptoms we experience at the end of a love affair mirror chemical addiction. • Growing up bilingual reduces the likelihood of Alzheimer’s. • Parental religion is imprinted on our brains during early development, much as our native language is. Praise for We Are Our Brains   “Swaab’s ‘neurobiography’ is witty, opinionated, passionate, and, above all, cerebral.”—Booklist (starred review)   “A fascinating survey . . . Swaab employs both personal and scientific observation in near-equal measure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “A cogent, provocative account of how twenty-first-century ‘neuroculture’ has the potential to effect profound medical and social change.”—Kirkus Reviews

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