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After the successful book Nervensachen, the well-known brain researcher Manfred Spitzer presents new stories about the brain, combining excellent entertainment with fascinating facts about our most important organ. Why do eight-year-old Pokemon cards remember more easily than animal pictures? How does our brain swear revenge, and how does it build trust? And what does Christmas have to do with brain research? Nervenkitzel is a volume from the series medizinHuman in the suhrkamp pocketbook. Manfred Spitzer, born in 1958, is head of the University Hospital of Psychiatry Ulm and the Transfer Centre for Neuroscience and Learning. His extensive work was awarded the Research Prize of the German Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in 1992 and the Prize of the Cogito Foundation for the Promotion of Cooperation between the Humanities and the Natural Sciences in 2002.