Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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Great Experience. Great Value. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories. View Kindle Edition Note: This item is eligible for FREE Click and Collect without a minimum order subject to availability. Details From the bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made A series of highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable essays . . . Fascinating and informative, it is popular science at its best â€“ Observer Small in size but big on ideas . . . [Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain] is absorbing, thought-provoking stuffâ€™ â€“ Evening Standard In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. Youâ€™ll learn where brains came from, how theyâ€™re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, youâ€™ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a â€˜lizard brainâ€™ and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour. Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human â€“ a gift of a book about our mot complex and crucial organ that you will want to savour again and again.

About the Author

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made and received a NIH Director s Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.