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Since then, he has been a faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department at Penn State, where he teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He also spends much of his free time teaching people about neuroscience through his website (neurochallenged.com) and his popular YouTube series, 2-Minute Neuroscience. He lives outside State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dingman weaves classic studies with modern research into easily digestible sections, to provide an excellent primer on the rapidly advancing field of neuroscience.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoheb Costandi, author, Neuroplasticity and 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"...a highly readable and accessible introduction to the operation of the brain and current issues in neuroscience...a wonderful introduction to the field.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Amthor, PhD, Professor of Psychology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, author, Neuroscience for Dummies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"... 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We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? \n\u003ci\u003eYour Brain, Explained\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis.You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction. You'll learn how neuroscience is working to fix these problems, and how you can build up your defenses against the most common faults of the mind.Along the way you'll find out: - Why brain training games don't prevent dementia- What it's like to remember every day of your life as if it were yesterday- Which popular psychiatric drug was created from German rocket fuel- How you might unknowingly be sabotaging your sleepDrawing on the author's popular YouTube series, \n\u003ci\u003e2-minute Neuroscience\u003c\/i\u003e, this is a friendly, engaging introduction to the human brain and its quirks from the perspective of a neuroscientist--using real-life examples and the author's own eye-opening illustrations. 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