Brain rules

Exercise

Rule #1 : exercise boosts brain power

Our brains love motion

The incredible test-score booster

Will you age like Jim or like Frank?

How oxygen builds roads for the brain

Survival

Rule #2 : The human brain evolved, too

What's uniquely human about us

A brilliant survival strategy

Meet your brain

How we conquered the world

Wiring

Rule #3 : Every brain is wired differently

Neurons slide, slither, and split

Experience makes the difference

Furious brain development not once, but twice

The Jennifer Aniston neuron

Attention

Rule #4 : We don't pay attention to boring things

Emotion matters

Why there is no such thing as multitasking

We pay great attention to threats, sex, and pattern matching

The brain needs a break!

Short-term memory

Rule #5 : Repeat to remember

Memories are volatile

How details become splattered across the insides of our brains

How the brain pieces them back together again

Where memories go

Long-term memory

Rule #6 : Remember to repeat

If you don't repeat this within 30 seconds, you'll forget it

Spaced repetition cycles are key to remembering

When floating in water could help your memory

Sleep

Rule #7 : Sleep well, think well

The brain doesn't sleep to rest

Two armies at war in your head

How to improve your performance 34 percent in 26 minutes

Which bird are you?

Sleep on it!

Stress

Rule #8 : Stressed brains don't learn the same way

Stress is good, stress is bad

A villain and a hero in the toxic-stress battle

Why the home matters to the workplace

Marriage intervention for happy couples

Sensory integration

Rule #9 : Stimulate more of the senses

Lessons from a nightclub

How and why all of our senses work together

Multisensory learning means better remembering

What's that smell?

Vision

Rule #10 : Vision trumps all other senses

Playing tricks on wine tasters

You see what your brain wants to see, and it likes to make stuff up

Throw out your PowerPoint

Gender

Rule #11: Male and female brains are different

Sexing humans

The difference between little girl best friends and little boy best friends

Men favor gist when stressed; women favor details

A forgetting drug

Exploration

Rule #12 : We are powerful and natural explorers

Babies are great scientists

Exploration is aggressive

Monkey see, monkey do

Curiosity is everything.