Can you trust your brain? -- Gray matter and silver screen : popular metaphors of how the brain works -- Thinking meat: neurons and synapses -- Fascinating rhytms: biological clocks and jet lag -- Happiness and how we find it -- What's it like in there? personality -- Sex, love, and pair-bonding -- One lump or two: how you make decisions -- Intelligence (and the lack of it) -- Vacation snapshots: memory -- Rationality without reason: autism -- A brief detour to Mars and Venus: cognitive gender differences -- Do you mind? Studying consciousness -- In you dreams: the neuroscience of sleep -- A pilgrimage: spirituality -- Forgetting birthdays: stroke -- A long, strange trip: drugs and alcohol -- How deep is your brain? Therapies that stimulate the brain's core.

When I drink, am I killing my brain cells? Written by two top neuroscientists, they dispel all the myths (such as we only ever use 10% of our brains!), and show how understanding your brain can also be useful.