Full name: Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are

Author: Joseph Ledoux Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142001783 0142001783

Following up his 1996 "The Emotional Brain, " the world-renowned brain expert presents a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, feel, imagine, act, and remember. In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's "The Emotional Brain" presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons-the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, "Synaptic Self" is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic. Similar books: The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S. Ramachandran Making up the Mind by Chris Frith Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden Incognito by David Eagleman The New Brain by Richard Restak Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz NeuroLogic by Eliezer Sternberg The Other Brain by R. Douglas Fields The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph Ledoux Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Next of Kin by Roger Fouts