Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals

A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Our lives are ruled by one particular group of chemicals.

These are the hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate and drive our brains. Overloaded looks at the roles these chemicals play in all aspects of our life experiences, from how we make decisions, who we love and what we remember to basic survival drives such as hunger, fear and sleep.

Author Ginny Smith explores what these tiny molecules do, meeting scientists at the cutting-edge of brain chemistry ...