How Your Brain Works: Myths and Facts
Sources Reviewed by Christopher Melinosky on September 08, 2019 Medically Reviewed on September 08, 2019
Reviewed by Christopher
Melinosky on
September 08, 2019
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SOURCES:
BMJ: “Medical Myths.”
Cell: “Dynamics of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Adult Humans.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Myths and Facts About Sleep.”
Frontiers in Psychology: “Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths.”
Hippocampus: London Taxi Drivers and Bus Drivers: A Structural MRI and Neuropsychological Analysis
Mayo Clinic: “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Children.”
National Institutes of Health, Genetics Home Reference: “Is Intelligence Determined by Genetics?”
National Sleep Foundation: “Sleep and the Brain: What Happens?”
Nature: “Prelude or Requiem for the ‘Mozart Effect'?”
Neurology: “Bilingualism Delays Age at Onset of Dementia, Independent of Education and Immigration Status.”
Psychological Science in the Public Interest: “Learning Styles: Concept and Evidence.”
The Journal of Neuroscience: “Longitudinal Development of Human Brain Wiring Continues from Childhood into Adulthood.”
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation: “Neuromyths.”
University of Rochester: “Understanding the Teen Brain.”
University of California San Diego Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center: “Brain Myths.”
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