Explores the working of the brain, the potential of the mind and how the brain makes a person unique. Includes puzzles, games, and optical illusions to sharpen the wit.

Includes index.

Meet your brain. Your amazing brain ; Mapping the brain ; Left brain, right brain ; Taking sides ; Nerves and neurons ; Brain waves ; What is a genius? -- Come to your senses. Brain and eyes ; Tricky pictures ; How you see ; Simple illusions ; Impossible illusions ; How you hear ; Sounds like? ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Taste and smell ; Sensitive senses ; How you feel and touch ; Touch and tell ; Tricking the mind ; Magic tricks ; Sensing your body ; Body illusions ; Intuition -- How memory works. How you think ; What is memory? ; Improve your memory ; Do you remember? Paying attention ; Making associations ; Albert Einstein -- Problem solving. How you learn ; Mastering mazes ; Puzzling patterns ; Intelligence types ; George Washington Carver ; Logic ; Illogical thinking ; Brainteasers ; Thinking inside the box ; Mathematical thinking ; Think of a number ; The magic of math ; Spatial awareness ; Seeing in 2-D ; Thinking in 3-D ; Invention ; Wernher von Braun -- A way with words. Learning to speak ; Having a word ; Using language ; Words aloud ; Reading and writing ; Jean François Champollion -- The creative mind. What is creativity? ; Are you a creative spark? ; Boost your creativity ; Creative exercises ; Leonardo da Vinci -- Your brain and you. Sense of self ; Personality types ; What about you? ; What makes you tick? ; Mary Anning ; The unconscious ; Dreams ; Emotions ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Fear ; Reading emotions ; Body talk ; Good and bad habits ; Winning and losing -- The evolving brain. How we got our brains ; Charles Darwin ; How the brain grows ; Brain surgery ; Animal intelligence ; Train your pet ; Can machines think? ; Program your friend.