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1 Development, Birth, and Parental Care 11 -- Subtle Interaction Between Mother and Child at Birth 11 -- A Difficult Birth as the First Symptom of a Developmental Brain Disorder 14 -- Maternal Behavior 17 -- Paternal Behavior 22 -- Importance of a Stimulating Environment for Early Brain Development 27 -- Memories from the Womb 32 -- 2 Threats to the Fetal Brain in the "Safety" of the Womb 36 -- Developmental Brain Disorders Caused by Environmental Factors 36 -- Developmental Brain Disorders Caused by Addictive Substances and Medication 39 -- Short-Term Outlook of the Unborn Child 46 -- Does a Fetus Feel Pain? 49 -- Sawing Off Your Own Leg: Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a Bizarre Developmental Disorder 52 -- 3 Sexual Differentiation of the Brain in the Womb 55 -- A Typical Boy or Girl? 55 -- Gender-Based Differences in Behavior 58 -- Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Bisexuality 60 -- Homosexuality: No Choice 63 -- Homosexuality in the Animal Kingdom 66 -- Transsexuality 67 -- Pedophilia 72 -- Public Response to My Research into Sex Differences in the Brain 77 -- Checking the Pope's Sex 83 -- 4 Puberty, Love, and Sexual Behavior 87 -- Adolescent Brain 87 -- Adolescent Behavior 89 -- Brain in Love 91 -- Disorders of the Brain and Sexuality 94 -- 5 Hypothalamus: Survival, Hormones, and Emotions 106 -- Hormone Production by the Hypothalamus and Streams of Urine 106 -- Surviving Without a Hypothalamus 108 -- Depression 112 -- Prader-Willi Syndrome 122 -- Obesity 125 -- Cluster Headache 129 -- Narcolepsy: Weak with Laughter 132 -- Fits of Laughter Without Emotion 135 -- Anorexia Nervosa Is a Disease of the Brain 137 -- 8 Addictive Substances 141 -- Cannabis and Psychoses 141 -- Ecstasy: Brain Damage After Pleasure 145 -- Substance Abuse by Politicians 147 -- 7 Brain and Consciousness 150 -- Neglect: Half a Life 150 -- Coma and Related Conditions 152 -- Brain Structures Crucial for Consciousness 159 -- Importance of Functional Links Between Brain Structures for Consciousness 161 -- Illusions and Loss of Self-Consciousness 164 -- "Filling In" Missing Information 167 -- Notions About the Mechanisms of Consciousness 169 -- 8 Aggression 172 -- Born Aggressive 172 -- Young and Aggressive 174 -- Aggression, Brain Disorders, and Prison 176 -- Guilt and Punishment 179 -- Violent While Asleep 181 -- 9 Autism 185 -- Daniel Tammet, an Autistic Savant 185 -- Autism, a Developmental Disorder 187 -- Savants 189 -- Brains of Savants 192 -- 10 Schizophrenia and Other Reasons for Hallucinations 195 -- Schizophrenia, a Disease of All Ages and Cultures 195 -- Schizophrenia Symptoms 198 -- Schizophrenia, a Developmental Brain Disorder 201 -- Hallucinations Due to a Lack of Stimuli 203 -- Other Hallucinations 205 -- 11 Repair and Electric Stimulation 210 -- Age-Related Blindness: Macular Degeneration 210 -- Serendipity: A. Lucky Accident 212 -- Deep Brain Stimulation 214 -- Brain Stimulation and Happiness 217 -- Prostheses in the Brain 220 -- Transplantation of Fetal Brain Tissue 222 -- Gene Therapy 226 -- Spontaneous Repair of Brain Damage 230 -- 12 Brain and Sports 234 -- Neuropornography: Boxing 234 -- Sex and the Olympic Games 236 -- Death of the Fittest 239 -- 13 Moral Behavior 242 -- Prefrontal Cortex: Initiative, Planning, Speech, Personality, and Moral Behavior 242 -- Moral Behavior: The Human in the Animal 245 -- Unconscious Moral Behavior 248 -- Moral Networks 250 -- What Nature Teaches Us About a Better Society 252 -- 14 Memory 256 -- Kandel's Research into Memory and the Collective Amnesia of the Austrians 256 -- Anatomy of Memory 260 -- Path to Long-Term Memory 265 -- Separate Memory Storage 267 -- Implicit Memory in the Cerebellum 270 -- 15 Neurotheology: The Brain and Religion 273 -- Why Are So Many People Religious? 273 -- Evolutionary Advantage of Religion 277 -- Religious Brain 281 -- A Better World Without Religion? 284 -- Unclean Mussels and Women 290 -- Praying for Another: A Placebo for Yourself 292 -- Religious Mania 295 -- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Messages from God 297 -- Public Reactions to My Views on Religion 301 -- 16 There Isn't More Between Heaven and Earth 304 -- Soul Versus Mind 304 -- Heart and Soul 306 -- Pseudoscientific Explanations of Near-Death Experiences 309 -- Effective Placebos 317 -- Traditional Chinese Medicine: Sometimes More Than a Placebo 319 -- Herbal Therapy 322 -- 17 Free Will, a Pleasant Illusion 326 -- Free Will Versus Choice 326 -- Brain as a Giant, Unconscious Computer 329 -- Unconscious Will 332 -- What Free Will Isn't 334 -- Free Will and Brain Disorders 336 -- 18 Alzheimer's Disease 339 -- Aging of the Brain, Alzheimer's Disease, and Other Forms of Dementia 339 -- Alzheimer's: The Stages of Deterioration 345 -- "Use It or Lose It": Reactivating Neurons in Alzheimer's Disease 348 -- Pain and Dementia 355 -- Alzheimer's and the Right Moment for Choosing to End One's Life 357 -- 19 Death 359 -- Magic of Life and Death 359 -- Dr. Deijman and Black Jan 362 -- Civic Disintegration Course: Dead Obvious 364 -- Netherlands Brain Bank 368 -- Herbs for Long Life After Death 370 -- 20 Evolution 371 -- Negotiation and Increase in Brain Size 371 -- Evolution of the Brain 375 -- Molecular Evolution 378 -- Why a Week? 383 -- 21 Conclusions 386.