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About product Is it possible to survive without a head? What a stupid question, you answer, any student will answer that it is impossible. However, one particularly successful chicken succeeded: for another year and a half he ran around his native chicken coop until he died as a result of an accident. This event clearly shows that we do not know much about our body, or rather, about its most complex organ — the brain. In this book you will find all the «ins and outs» of our head, which was previously available only to doctors and students of a medical university; and also learn from it why gray matter is gray; how coffee makes us mutants; why alcohol deprives us of the ability to speak articulately and why, with all the amazing abilities of our brain, we can hardly remember a month after an important exam. Abstract 1.5 kilograms — this is the average weight of the human brain. However, this «baby» in our head consumes 20% of all the energy that we receive during the day. Why such waste, when the functioning of other organs of our body is no less important for a full life? To understand this, as well as other issues, decided biochemist, bioinformatist and neurophysiologist Elena Belova. Together with her, you will look at the brain from various angles and learn, perhaps, everything that scientists know about it at the moment. Is it possible to survive without a head? Why are people with phenomenal memory autistic? Which part of the brain is responsible for recognizing emotions and what happens if you turn it off? Why are we distracted and lazy (and can we do without it)? So, are you ready to set off on a journey along the winding paths of our «onboard computer»? …
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