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9781851687961

The Neurotourist Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9781851687961

  • ISBN10:

    1851687963

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-07-01
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications

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Summary

Acclaimed journalist and intrepid brain "explorer" Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today's top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, health, and reality itself. Interlacing bizarre experiments, cutting-edge science, and irreverent interviews, The Neurotourist is an odyssey through the mind-bending revolution underway in the new age of the brain.

Author Biography

Lone Frank is an award-winning journalist, science writer, and TV presenter. She holds a PhD in neurobiology and has worked as a research scientist in biotechnology. Apart from a particularly 'cute' corpus callosum, she has an expert's word that her brain is quite unremarkable.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. viii
Brainy Revolutionp. 1
Finding God in the synapses: your own personal Jesusp. 21
Morality comes from within - the brain as ethics councilp. 68
Happiness is a cognitive workoutp. 108
Our social mind - it's all about simulationp. 146
Economics - the invisible hand of the mindp. 181
Selling it to your neuronsp. 220
Lies, damn lies - the prints are all over your cortexp. 253
Free us from ourselvesp. 300
Notesp. 310
Indexp. 313
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