Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions About the Mind and Brain

SECTION 1: BRAIN MYTHOLOGY.

1. Whence Cometh the Myth that We Only Use Ten Percent of OurBrain? (Barry Beyerstein).

2. Are We in Our Right Minds? (Michael C. Corballis).

3. Energy and the Brain: Facts and Fantasies (Fernando D.Saravi).

4. Pseudoscience and the Brain: Tuners and Tonics for AspiringSuperhumans (Barry L. Beyerstein).

SECTION 2: THE TWILIGHT ZONE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.

5. Near-Death Experience and Ecstasy: A Production of theOrganisation of the Human Brain (Michael Persinger).

6. Lazarus Syndrome (Ennio De Renzi).

SECTION 3: MYTHS ABOUT MEMORY AND CREATIVE THINKING.

7. Lie Down and Let Me Tell You About Your Childhood... (MaryanneGarry, Susan Frame and Elizabeth F. Loftus).

8. Repetita (Non) Iuvant (Robert H. Logie and Sergio DellaSala).

9. Creative Thinking: Myths and Misconceptions (K. Gilhooly).

SECTION 4: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES: CLONES, AGEING, ANDHYPNOSIS.

10. The Myth of the Clonable Human Brain (G. Berlucchi).

11. When Age Is In, the Wit Is Out? (Pat Rabbitt).

12. Hypnosis (Graham F. Wagstaff).

SECTION 5: THE MULTIFARIOUS ASPECTS OF DECEPTION.

13. I Shall Please: the Mysterious Power of Placebos (Edzard Ernstand Neil C. Abbott).

14. The Magicians Best-Kept Secrets (James Randi).

15.It s All in the Mind. On the Mechanisms of Deception in PsychicFraud (Massimo Polidoro).

16.Recent Advances in Moving Backwards (Katharine M. Leafhead andMichael D. Kopelman).

SECTION 6: MEDIA WATCH.

17. The Media and the Brain (Toby Howard and Steve Donnelly).