Brain Within Minutes (Book)

The Brain in Minutes is a work by Rita Carter, part of the "Popular Science" and "In Minutes" series. Presented under the subtitle 200 Key Concepts Explained Instantly, the book focuses on the brain, widely regarded as the most complex structure in the universe. It examines what humanity knows about this organ and how individuals think, smell, speak, learn, and move.

The book explores why the human brain is so intelligent and how it controls everything from breathing, sleeping, and seeing to identity, imagination, pleasure, and pain. It also explains what happens when the brain is considered alongside recent discoveries in computing and genetics. The work covers the origin and anatomy of the brain, body control, mood and emotions, perception, consciousness, memory and learning, personality, intelligence and other higher functions, language, unusual mental states, disorders, diseases and treatments, and the future of the brain.

The themes addressed in the book are various mental conditions. Author Rita Carter sheds light on memory loss, multiple personality, psychopathy, dreaming, hallucination, addiction, autism, dyslexia, schizophrenia, dementia, and many other mental states.