- How the Brain Works an intriguing explanation of the mind's abstract as well as physiological workings
- Consciousness our mental awareness, and the effects environment, food, and drugs can have on it
- Memory ways to strengthen and sharpen recall; aspects of déjà vu and amnesia
- Intelligence ways to measure and increase it, and tap creative potential
- Emotions how the brain functions affectively, and the scientific bases of fear, love, and sexual attraction
- The Mind-Body Connection the relation of the mental to the physical, and how the mind can overcome stress and infirmity
Extensively illustrated and written with keen insight and humor, Care and Feeding of the Brain is an essential examination of the hows and whys of the human mind.