Publisher Annotation: It's a wrinkly, spongy mass the size of a head of cauliflower that sits in our heads and controls everything we do! Welcome to the world of the brain... What is the brain made of? How does it work? Why do we need one at all? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in this fun, fact-packed introduction to the brain.

From a Harvard- and Yale-trained neuropsychologist, a science-backed five-step program to boost memory and dramatically decrease the risk of Alzheimer's. American adults fear Alzheimer's more than any other disease-including cancer-and because many don't realize there is no genetic cause for 99 percent of Alzheimer's cases, they don't take the necessary steps to change lifestyle factors shown to significantly protect against the disease. In...