Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions about the Mind and Brain (Paperback)

SECTION 1: BRAIN MYTHOLOGY.

1. Whence Cometh the Myth that We Only Use Ten Percent of Our Brain? (Barry Beyerstein).

2. Are We in Our Right Minds? (Michael C. Corballis).

3. Energy and the Brain: Facts and Fantasies (Fernando D. Saravi).

4. Pseudoscience and the Brain: Tuners and Tonics for Aspiring Superhumans (Barry L. Beyerstein).

SECTION 2: THE TWILIGHT ZONE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.

5. Near-Death Experience and Ecstasy: A Production of the Organisation of the Human Brain (Michael Persinger).

6. Lazarus Syndrome (Ennio De Renzi).

SECTION 3: MYTHS ABOUT MEMORY AND CREATIVE THINKING.

7. Lie Down and Let Me Tell You About Your Childhood... (Maryanne Garry, Susan Frame and Elizabeth F. Loftus).

8. Repetita (Non) Iuvant (Robert H. Logie and Sergio Della Sala).

9. Creative Thinking: Myths and Misconceptions (K. Gilhooly).

SECTION 4: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: CLONES, AGEING, AND HYPNOSIS.

10. The Myth of the Clonable Human Brain (G. Berlucchi).

11. When Age Is In, the Wit Is Out? (Pat Rabbitt).

12. Hypnosis (Graham F. Wagstaff).

SECTION 5: THE MULTIFARIOUS ASPECTS OF DECEPTION.

13. I Shall Please: the Mysterious Power of Placebos (Edzard Ernst and Neil C. Abbott).

14. The Magicians Best-Kept Secrets (James Randi).

15.It s All in the Mind. On the Mechanisms of Deception in Psychic Fraud (Massimo Polidoro).

16.Recent Advances in Moving Backwards (Katharine M. Leafhead and Michael D. Kopelman).

SECTION 6: MEDIA WATCH.

17. The Media and the Brain (Toby Howard and Steve Donnelly).