States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0471399736 ISBN 13: 9780471399735

Casa editrice: John Wiley &Sons, 2001

Riassunto

An all-star lineup of scientists takes you to the front lines of brain research.Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings?Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside our brains. In this timely book, eight pioneering researchers offer lively and stimulating discussions on the most exciting discoveries as well as a new way of understanding our emotions, moods, memories, and dreams. Inside, you'll find:* J. ALLAN HOBSON, author of the groundbreaking The Dreaming Brain, leading a tour of dream states and explaining why we dream and what dream studies reveal about our minds* ERIC KANDEL, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine, taking us along the chain of biological events that create long-term memories, revealing how we stand at the brink of helping those who suffer from grave mental and memory disorders* STEVEN HYMAN, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, tracing the links between nature and nurture, particularly in addiction and mental illness, to explain the relationship between inherited tendencies and the impact of life experience* KAY REDFIELD JAMISON, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind, explaining manic depression, its prevalence among gifted artists, writers, and musicians, and the societal questions raised by trying to eradicate the ""depression gene"". . . and much, much more. Whether discussing the brain-body connection, the sources of emotion, or the ethereal world of dreams, States of Mind enables you to share in the very latest explorations into the nature and function of the human mind.

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Roberta Conlan is a regular contributor to the publications of the National Academy of Sciences.

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An all-star lineup of brain scientists reveal what the public needs to know States of Mind is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside our brains. The book covers the sources of depression and how it can be treated; the effects of stress on our brains and general health; how memory works and the phenomenon of false memory; why we dream and the role dreams play in our lives; how genes and life experience combine to shape our personalities and temperaments; and more. Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind, on depression. J. Allan Hobson, author of the groundbreaking The Dreaming Brain, on dreams. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, on genes and environment. Jerome Kagan, director of Harvard's Mind-Brain Behavior Initiative, on temperament. Eric Kandel, director of Columbia's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, on memory. Joseph LeDoux, author of the acclaimed The Emotional Brain, on emotions. Bruce McEwen, director of the Neuroendocrinology Laboratory at Rockefeller University, on stress. Esther Sternberg, head of Immunology and Behavior at the Naitonal Institute of Mental Health, on the brain and disease. From the Smithsonian Associates/Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiatives Series

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• Editore: John Wiley &Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471399736
• ISBN 13: 9780471399735
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226
• Redattore: Conlan Roberta