{"id":82290,"date":"2022-10-25T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=82290"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:26:24","slug":"seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain: Book Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <em>Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain<\/em> about? What are the main takeaways of the book?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain<\/em>, Lisa Feldman Barrett sheds light on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-does-the-human-brain-work\/\">inner workings of the brain<\/a>. She provides exactly seven and a half lessons that detail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-the-human-brain-works\/\">how the brain works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read below for a brief overview of Barrett&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-seven-and-a-half-lessons-about-the-brain-by-lisa-feldman-barrett\"><strong><em>Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain<\/em> by Lisa Feldman Barrett<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, <\/em>Lisa Feldman Barrett playfully addresses some common mysteries that surround the human brain. Published in 2020, her explanations shed light on the inner workings of the brain and how they impact feelings, behaviors, and relationships. Barrett argues that by understanding the basics of how your brain works, you can take a more active role in deciding how to think and behave. Her seven-and-a-half lessons explore how the brain evolved, how it\u2019s organized, how it develops throughout our lifetimes, and how it works on its own and with other brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett is a leading neuroscientist, researcher, and science writer. She is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and is the Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain &amp; Behavior at Harvard Medical School. She has written more than 260 peer-reviewed articles as well as the popular book <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/how-emotions-are-made\"><em>How Emotions Are Made<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>(2017).<em> <\/em>Barrett is known for making neuroscience accessible to a lay audience through myth-busting explanations of what we know (and don\u2019t yet know) about the brain and the mind (the brain being the physical organ, and the mind being our individual patterns of thought and action).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We explore Barrett\u2019s seven-and-a-half lessons about the brain through four themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How the brain is organized<\/li><li>How the brain operates<\/li><li>How the brain develops<\/li><li>How brains collaborate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Part 1: How the Brain Is Organized<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett begins with an explanation of how the brain is organized: not as a layered structure with specific parts and jobs, as has long been thought, but as a network of neurons (brain cells that receive and transmit information) that can all perform different tasks according to need. 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