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Who are we?
What’s going on inside us when we think, feel, hope, or imagine?
Can we change?
Can we become happier, smarter, healthier, more altruistic–better?
For thousands of years, people have wondered about questions like these. Now, using the latest brain scanning technologies, neuroscientists can watch your brain at work–and they’re amazed by what they’re seeing. Now, you can see it, too. Pictures of the Mind presents the images that are revolutionizing neuroscience and offers you a personal tour of the frontiers of brain research.
You’ll discover why scientists are becoming increasingly excited about your brain’s abilities to keep growing, learning, changing, and healing, all through life. You’ll follow cutting-edge researchers as they blaze new trails toward potential cures for everything from depression to dementia and brain injury to addiction. And you’ll preview what could become the greatest scientific revolution of all: the one that finally explains mind, emotion, and consciousness.
Introduction ix
Part I: Snapshots
Chapter 1: Life, Death, and the Middle Ground 3
Chapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Powerful Emotions and Our Power to Work with Them 21
Chapter 3: Happiness on the Brain 37
Chapter 4: Cooling the Flame: Pictures of Addiction, Chronic Pain, and Recovery 53
Part II: Landscape
Chapter 5: Where Does Morality Live, and When Is It Home? 69
Chapter 6: The Making and Breaking of Memories 89
Chapter 7: Where Am "I"? Experiences of Self, Other, and Neither 109
Resources 141
Notes 145
Acknowledgments 163
About the Author 165
Index 167
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Posted November 29, 2011
Cool picts
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Why would someone write a review, giving one star rating, and simply state that s/he hasn't read it yet? I haven't read it yet, either, but I'll give five stars to counter the one star.
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This a great book I would recommend this book for anyone and any age.
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.
Who are we?
What’s going on inside us when we think, feel, hope, or imagine?
Can we change?
Can we become happier, smarter, healthier, more altruistic–better?
For thousands of years, people have wondered about questions like these. Now, using the latest brain scanning technologies, neuroscientists can watch your brain at work–and ...