Brain Rules (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• John Gottman: Marriage researcher
• George Ojemann: Add a description of this character.
• Michael Posner
• Randy Gardner
• Nathaniel Kleitman
• Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev: Inventor of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
• William Dement: Sleep researcher.
• Kim Peek
• Dr. Richard
• Miguel Najdorf
• Dr. Antronette Yancey
• Edwin Krebs
• Barry Morrow
• MICHAEL JORDAN
• Richard Potts
• Andy Meltzoff
• Dr. Oliver Sacks
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Jennifer Aniston
• Ken Griffey Jr.
• Gene Bissell
• Kobayashi
• Solomon Shereshevskii
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Mike Wallace
• Howard Gardner
• Bruce McEwen
• Larry Cahill
• Deborah Tannen
• Marty Seligman
• Phineas Gage
• Halle Berry
• John Loudon McAdam
• Dr. Steven Blair
• Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Daniel Offer
• Jack La Lanne
• Judy DeLoache
• Alan Baddeley
• Edmond Fischer
• John Bransford
• Eric Kandel
• Richard Mayer
• Alyson Shapiro
• Tom Petty
• Dan Schacter

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• “We now know that the space between repetitions is the critical component for transforming temporary memories into more persistent forms”

• “We learn and remember best through pictures, not through written or spoken words”

• “The brain is in a constant state of tension between cells and chemicals that try to put you to sleep and cells and chemicals that try to keep you awake”

• “Spaced learning is greatly superior to massed learning”

• “You can responsibly train a skeptical eye on any claim that brain research can without equivocation tell us how to become better teachers, parents, business leaders, or students. This book is a call for research simply because we don’t' know enough to be prescriptive. It is an attempt to vaccinate against mythologies such as the "Mozart Effect," left brain/right brain personalities, and getting your babies into Harvard by making them listen to language tapes while they are still in the womb."”

• “Often called the father of sleep research, Dement is a white-haired man with a broad smile who at this writing is in his late 70s. He says pithy things about our slumbering habits, such as "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."”

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• Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

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• Your lifetime risk for general dementia is literally cut in half if you participate in leisure-time physical activity.

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• Deliberately re-expose yourself to the information if you want to retrieve it later. Deliberately re-expose yourself to the information more elaborately if you want the retrieval to be of higher quality. Deliberately re-expose yourself to the information more elaborately, and in fixed, spaced intervals, if you want the retrieval to be the most vivid it can be.

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• People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days.

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• A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

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• Whether you are a waiter or a brain scientist, if you want to get the particulars correct, don’t start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

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• The brain appears to be designed to solve problems related to surviving in an unstable outdoor environment, and to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain’s performance envelope.

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• We think it’s because exercise regulates the release of the three neurotransmitters most commonly associated with the maintenance of mental health: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.

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• The brain represents only about 2 percent of most people’s body weight, yet it accounts for about 20 percent of the body’s total energy usage—about 10 times more than would be expected. When the brain is fully working, it uses more energy per unit of tissue weight than a fully exercising quadricep. In fact, the human brain cannot simultaneously activate more than 2 percent of its neurons at any one time. More than this, and the glucose supply becomes so quickly exhausted that you will faint.

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• Fluid intelligence, the type that requires improvisatory problem-solving skills, was particularly hurt by a sedentary lifestyle.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. John J. Medina (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Tracy Cutchlow (Editor)
2. Greg Pearson (Designer)
3. Mark Pearson (Publisher) - Pear Press Publisher

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• New York Times Bestseller

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• Dewey: 612.82

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Neuropsychology
• Books › Business & Investing › Management & Leadership › Leadership
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Success
• Books › Science
• Books › Nonfiction

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• BrainRules.net

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