Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome - Brossura

Andreasen, Nancy C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195167287 ISBN 13: 9780195167283

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2004

Riassunto

Brave New Brain is a travel guide to the future. Scientists are presently mapping both the terrain of the brain and the geography of the genome. Psychiatry has joined them on a quest to conquer mental illnesses - those illnesses that strike the most human part of our bodies, our brains and minds. Brave New Brain is designed as a resource book for following this voyage of discovery. It explains the nature of mental illness and genome and brain mapping. using clear simple language, interesting case histories, and extensive illustrations. Scientists today know more about the brain than ever before. Andreasen gives us an engaging and readable description of how it all works, from the billions of neurons to the tiny thalamus to the moral monitor in our prefrontal cortex. She also shows the progress made in mapping the human genome, whose 30,000-40,000 genes are almost all active in the brain.

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Recensione:

Informative and well written, this volume is highly recommended to clinicians as well as consumers, interested in understanding the new brain science and its applications to psychiatry. (Psychological Medicine, 35)

L'autore:

Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry. She has written hundreds of articles and ten other books, including The Broken Brain, the first book to describe the importance of neurobiology to understanding mental illness. She lives in Iowa City and Santa Fe.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195167287
• ISBN 13: 9780195167283
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 380