Kaja Nordengen NON-FICTION

POPULAR SCIENCE

Your SUPERSTAR Brain

Hjernen er stjernen. Ditt eneste uerstattelige organ
Kagge Forlag 2016
204 Pages
English sample translation available
PHOTO: STURLASON

Your superstar brain makes you who you are. It enables you to communicate Ph.d. Kaja Nordengen (b.1987) is a physician
specialising in neurology at Akershus
with other people, from simple messages to subtle use of irony.
University Hospital. She also teaches at
The brain gives you feelings and personality. The brains keeps memories from University of Oslo. She did her Ph.d. in 2014:
early childhood, it makes you able to learn new skills and knowledge. “The localisation and function of NAA,
NAAG and their derivatives in the brain.”
The brain makes you fall in love, and helps you interpret complex patterns and
Nordengen has always been fascinated by the
information. But the brain can also tempt you to make bad choices, and it brain.
rewards addiction.
Have a look at Nordengen's Ted Talk,
INVENTED REALITY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubJ9sO
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"A brilliant book about all the

peculiar things that are going
on in our head. (...) From the
first sentence we know that
[Nordengen] masters her
subject to the fullest. She is
capable of conveying her
knowledge without making the
reader's brain go topsy turvy"
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