Being unlucky when you think : the importance of working memory -- Remembering what to concentrate on -- Why do students daydream? -- The working memories of the Nynäshamn children -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and children with low working memories -- The growing brain : how the brain develops and matures -- The development of the brain -- The brain matures -- Genes and the brain -- The white matter -- Through the Pyrenees by motorbike : the risk-taking teenage brain -- Risks and rewards -- Neuroscience and the law -- Now I am really awake for the first time ever : long-term memory -- Children's long-term memory -- The key to the memory -- Improving the long-term memory -- Mathematics, memory, and space -- Counting babies -- Retaining numbers in working memory -- The mnemonic map -- Mathematical areas -- Mathematics and gender -- Dyscalculia : does it exist? -- Premature birth and dyscalculia -- Training programs.
Reading, dyslexia, and problematic relationships -- Learning to read -- Reading areas of the brain and dyslexia -- Dyslexia: genetics and displaced cells -- Why the problems are interconnected -- Dyslexia training and neuroscientific predictions -- The early environment and brain development: the importance of stimulation and engaged parents -- Stimulating environments and brain development -- The role of parents in memory and stress -- Skydiving and expectations: what acute and chronic stress do to us -- Stress hormones and nerve cells -- Social stress -- Chronic stress -- Cognitive training, memory techniques, and music -- The dream of the perfect memory -- The brain of a memory champion -- Working memory training -- The art of training -- Can everything be trained? -- Music -- Body and soul -- Jogging and the brain -- Intelligence and infections -- 11. This will change everything -- Five themes -- A schoolgirl of the future.
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