"A 24-hour journal of what's happening in your brain as you sleep, dream, wake up, eat, work, play, fight, love, worry, compete, hope, make important decisions, age, and change." -- [P.1] Cover.

You gotta know the territory: a short tour of your brain -- Neurotransmitters -- Your body clocks -- The best of times? -- COMING TO CONSCIOUSNESS. 5am. Waking to the world: Your inner alarm clocks -- Your brain chemicals - Larks and owls -- Coming to our senses -- An orchestra of sensory harmony -- Touch and movement: feeling our way -- Varieties of touch -- 6am. Coming to consciousness. The seat of consciousness -- Emotion, memory, and consciousness -- It's always about networking -- Little gray cells and big white matter: myelin in your brain -- Prime time for heart attack 7 stroke -- 7am. Those morning emotions: Reason needs neurochemical boost -- Can meditation help master those emotions? -- Is there a God spot in your brain? -- Practice makes compassion -- 8am. Finding your way: Why his brain may not ask for directions -- How we know where to find our lost keys -- ENGAGING THE WORLD: Getting out and about. 9am. Encountering others: That face, that familiar face -- Friend or foe? Read my face -- Mirror, mirror: copycat neurons in the brain -- The broken mirror: autism insights from mirror neurons and face perception -- 10am. Peak performance, or stress? Stress in the brain -- The alarm that doesn't stop: why chronic stress is so bad -- Stress destroys neurons -- Stress ups the risk of Alzheimer's disease -- The very thought of it is enough -- Multitasking AGAIN? -- The limits of multitasking -- How your brain helps your job kill you -- you can lull your brain away from stress -- Flow versus stress -- 11am. Decisions, decisions, decisions: The brain's CEO -- "Chemo brain" can ambush your CEO -- Choosing economically -- Making an emotional moral choice -- Choosing wearies your brain -- The brain has a section for regret -- 12n. The hungry brain: How hunger works in your brain -- We're losing our scents -- Still hungry? When hunger goes awry -- Why calories taste delicious -- Addicted to ____ (fill in the blank) -- Self-control sucks your energy -- Yes, there is such a thing as brain food -- THE GUTS OF THE DAY: Getting down to business. 1pm. The tired brain: Partial recall: why memory fades with age -- Can you help your brain stay young(er)? -- Predicting Alzheimer's disease -- How forgetting is good for the brain -- Asleep at the wheel, almost? It could be narcolepsy -- 1:54pm Just in time for a 6-minute power nap -- 2pm. Bored, bored, bored: Can't get no satisfaction? Maybe it's ADHD -- ADHD and risk taking could be good, sometimes -- Wired and hooked: addicted to technology -- 3pm. Your pain is mainly in the brain: How pain hurts your brain -- mind under matter, mind over brain -- Is hypnosis real? -- A window into traumatic forgetting -- 4pm. Exercise your brain: Exercise grows neurons and improves memory -- Why we get food cravings -- The most dangerous time for teens -- The teen brain is still changing -- But don't forget the hormones -- TIME OUT: letting go and coming home. 5pm. The dimming of the day. Is it really depression, or just a bad patch? -- Searching for the pathway to depression -- Maybe you're just SAD (seasonal affective disorder) -- Magnetic energy may work when meds fail -- A peak time for suicide -- Good grief: addicted to grieving -- 6p. Coming home. An Oxytocin high -- Nobody home? loneliness hurts -- Oh, those comforting cravings. Or is it addiction? -- Bottoms up: where many alcoholics end -- Is addiction the result rather than the cause of brain damage? -- Still crazy after all these years? Aging isn't stopping drug use -- 7pm. Gotta sing, gotta dance: The musical path to the brain -- Music survives brain damage - Your brain expands to store music -- So you think you can dance? -- Born to rock -- The creative brain -- Right brain, left brain? -- Don't oversimplify that right brain stuff -- The musical ear is learned, not born -- 8pm. Humor is healthy: The best medicine -- Tracking your internal laugh track -- TV addiction is no mere metaphor -- WINDING DOWN: Fear, sex, sleep, and dreams. 9pm. Things that go bump in the night: How fear works in your brain -- Who's afraid? Not these brain cells -- When the brain decided it's time to scram - The many parts of a violent brain -- 10pm. Lust, sex, and love: Your brain on sex -- Women, men, and orgasms: how alike are they? -- Does the penis have a brain of its own? -- What's love got to do with it? Plenty, it turns out, for women -- Are you born gay? Sexual orientation is biology, not choice -- 11pm. Falling asleep: The 5 stages of sleep -- Insomnia: curse of the night -- Perhaps less is more? -- Interrupted sleep? Don't call it insomnia; it's normal -- Call me sleepless -- STILL awake? Can you catch up on lost sleep? -- Is insomnia worse for night owls? -- Midnight sleeping in the midnight hour: Strolling in your sleep -- Drifting in to dreamland -- Do banished thoughts resurface in dreams? -- Want to dream more? Try sleep deprivation -- NIGHT CREW AT WORK: 1am. Night crew at work: Cleaning up your neural garbage -- Why your brain doesn't take a break already -- The 10 percent myth -- 2am. Going against the clock in your brain: Disasters on the night shift -- Lack of sleep affects doctors as much as alcohol -- Less sleep? More fat -- Biorhythm and blues: faulty clocks -- Resetting your body clock -- 3:00am. Awake and anxious: Where the nightmare begins -- A false alarm -- That pill to fix your ills has a price -- 3:30am. Night nurse on duty -- 4am. Last sleep 4:30am. Awake so early? you may be an unlucky lark. -- Your brain tomorrow.