Kaja Nordengen

Your SUPERSTAR Brain

Hjernen er stjernen. Ditt eneste uerstattelige organ

Your superstar brain makes you who you are. It enables you to communicate with other people, from simple messages to subtle use of irony.
The brain gives you feelings and personality. The brains keeps memories from early childhood, it makes you able to learn new skills and knowledge.
The brain makes you fall in love, and helps you interpret complex patterns and information. But the brain can also tempt you to make bad choices, and it rewards addiction.

“Read it! It is well worth the effort.”

Professor May-Britt Moser, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine 2014, psychologist and brain researcher

“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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Ph.d. Kaja Nordengen (b.1987) is a physician specialising in neurology at Akershus University Hospital. She also teaches at University of Oslo. She did her Ph.d. in 2014: “The localisation and function of NAA, NAAG and their derivatives in the brain.” Nordengen has always been fascinated by the brain.

Have a look at Nordengen’s Ted Talk, INVENTED REALITY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubJ9sOIvLuk