The Great Brain Book

            Title: The Great Brain Book
            Author: HP Newquist
            Chapter: 6; The Care and Feeding of Your Brain




-Each stage of cycle of your sleep can be measured by an electroencephalograph.
-Each time that a memory is made or an activity has been processed, a new connection is made between neurons.
-The more you repeat an action, the more connections are made which is why it's easier to retrieve the memory and do it better each time.
-You technically cannot just be classified as a left or right sided brain person, it's a mixture of both.
-Overcoming phobias takes a lot of time because the brain has to unlearn a fear that is has created.
-the first popular IQ test was made in 1916 called the Standford-Binet test.
-While your sleeping, the brain releases growth hormones.


Stages of Sleep:
1. you lose contact with the world around you right when you first fall asleep.
2. you're in a light sleep, which separates your brain even more from the world but you can still easily be awakened.
3. Hit deep sleep, most body functions have slowed down and if someone were to whisper to you, you probably wouldn't react.
4. Deepest stage of sleep "dead to the world"
5. REM-pons in your brain stem start sending nerve impulses and your brain tells different parts of your body to speed up. This is when your heartbeat increases but you're still in a light sleep.

In this book, HP Newquist, explains how the brain receives information and memorizes it. They also show the differences between the left and right side of the brain, memory tricks, phobias, and sleep patterns. 
One fact that supports these main ideas is that there is four main stages of sleep. There is a ninety minute normal sleeping cycle that happens repeatedly at least five times every night. 
Another fact that supports these main ideas is that a theory of why we dream is that our brain uses to dreams to help classify specific memories that didn't get classified when we were awake. Finally, the author gives the fact to support these main idea that, while you are sleeping, your brain can use that time to repair and replace damaged or dying cells. These ideas are similar to the movie Inception because in the movie, they use their dreams and they bring back memories in them.