The Neurotourist Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science
by Frank, LoneEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-07-01
Publisher(s): Oneworld Publications
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Summary
Acclaimed journalist and intrepid brain "explorer" Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today's top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, health, and reality itself. Interlacing bizarre experiments, cutting-edge science, and irreverent interviews, The Neurotourist is an odyssey through the mind-bending revolution underway in the new age of the brain.
Author Biography
Lone Frank is an award-winning journalist, science writer, and TV presenter. She holds a PhD in neurobiology and has worked as a research scientist in biotechnology. Apart from a particularly 'cute' corpus callosum, she has an expert's word that her brain is quite unremarkable.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. viii |
| Brainy Revolution | p. 1 |
| Finding God in the synapses: your own personal Jesus | p. 21 |
| Morality comes from within - the brain as ethics council | p. 68 |
| Happiness is a cognitive workout | p. 108 |
| Our social mind - it's all about simulation | p. 146 |
| Economics - the invisible hand of the mind | p. 181 |
| Selling it to your neurons | p. 220 |
| Lies, damn lies - the prints are all over your cortex | p. 253 |
| Free us from ourselves | p. 300 |
| Notes | p. 310 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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