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With vivid stories of lives transformed, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with acid-tongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig, road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing transcranial direct current stimulation

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Read by Erik Synnestvedt

Expanding the mind's workspace: the pioneers who overturned a century of dogma -- Measure of a man: testing my brain before I train -- A good brain trainer is hard to find: a skeptic's guide to what does (and does not) work -- Old-school brain training: training methods of the ancients -- Smart pills and thinking caps: the promise and peril of sci-fi methods -- Boot camp for my brain: setting up my training regimen -- Are you smarter than a mouse?: the biological and evolutionary basis of human intelligence -- Defenders of the faith: meetings with the arch-skeptic -- Flowers for Ts65Dn: the search for a drug for Down syndrome -- Clash of the titans: a tale of five scientific meetings -- Final exam: my post-training results