Brain Myths Exploded

Lessons from Neuroscience

By: The Great Courses, Indre Viskontas

Narrated by: Indre Viskontas

Much of the layperson's knowledge of the brain is predicated on a lack of understanding about this mysterious organ. To start building a more straightforward, accurate understanding of current breakthroughs in neuroscience, you have to start by shattering popular brain myths.

Each of these 24 lectures takes as its focus a single powerful, prevalent brain myth, and uses it as a launch pad from which to explore myriad topics in neuroscience: decision making, memory, dreams, emotions, neuroplasticity, consciousness, mental illness, and much more.

Our memory is an accurate, objective record of the past. Our senses reflect the world as it really exists. Our dreams have hidden meanings. We are only using 10% of our total brain power. Modern technology (including social media) is making us less intelligent. Dr. Viskontas doesn't just settle for obliterating these and other myths. Instead, she replaces them with scientific facts gathered from experiments, research, and case studies. The result is an eye-opening adventure into the latest understanding of why the brain works the way it does.

Whatever order you enjoy these lectures in, you'll be left with insights that will help you better determine the hard scientific truths behind the breaking news (and myths) of tomorrow.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2017 The Great Courses

Awesome course!

Wow, this course was so jam packed with information!

I've been listening to audiobooks about neuroscience lately, and this is the first thing that hasn't left me feeling that the content was extremely superficial and anecdotal.

The speaker had a very natural, conversational way of relating information that makes it fun, while she still challenges a lot of our beliefs and puts things into perspective.

I think my favorite myth that she tackled was the idea that people only use 10% of their brains. Utter nonsense!

If you are even remotely interested in how the brain works and are open to having your beliefs challenged (and in some cases proved wrong!) this is just the thing!

Informative! Enjoyed exploring a new subject!

Great lectures and interesting. Helpful in understanding lots of things I didn't understand. I'll probably revisit this lecture again.

Interesting, informative, and inspiring!

This was a great book and left me feeling more inquisitive to further learn. Also incorporates different perspectives and promotes thoughtfulness.

Very interesting

Great lecture. Even tough I read a lot on the brain I learned a lot. Full of interesting points.And served in a fun way.

excellently presented

professor was great, material interesting, well organized, learned a lot, another fifteen words are needed in total

The story was about the human brain

This book talks about many neuroscience subjects and also about the human brain in the beginning it talks about neuroplasticity and how no two brains will ever be the same it talks about how the brain ages over time and how you can slow down the effects of aging and it also talks about how old people have a cognitive decline as they get older the story was good but the performance was not the book also talks about technology and how technology makes us less smart but it also adds an extension to our memory overall I think you should not get the book because it is very expensive you should use an audible token to buy the book.

Great info for those nice to know conversations

It's a great introduction into different matters of the brain and its workings. After this you can start to deepen your knowledge with the different topics.

Great narration and a compelling series

The content and the quality of delivery combined to give me high confidence in the information.

Perfect mix of information and entertainment

I just finished Brain Myths Exploded and loved every minute of the course. Indre does an incredible job mixing high-quality information with an entertaining delivery. Lots of great anecdotes and explanations delivered in memorable and accessible ways. I would absolutely recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the brain. I studied neuroscience in college and found Indre's summaries and commentary much more enjoyable and clearer than my classes!

jdanielmosquera

Excellent performance and documentation of the facts and myths about human brain. Great voice of the author helped me enjoy the book.