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Mind wide open : your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life

BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, -- Mind Wide Open, Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living.

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  • "我在腦中顯影"
  • "Wo zai nao zhong xian ying"

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  • "BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, -- Mind Wide Open, Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living."@en
  • "Overzicht aan de hand van voorbeelden van de werking van de hersenen, de samenhang met gedrag en emoties en de stand van recent hersenonderzoek."
  • "Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works-its chemicals, structures, and subroutines-and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug. In Mind Wide Open, Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I? Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative-a valuable tool for better relationships and better living."

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  • "Popular works"
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  • "Xin si da kai : " wo " zai nao zhong xian ying"
  • "Mind wide open"
  • "Mind wide open : your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life"@en
  • "Mind wide open : your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life"
  • "Op reis door je brein : ontdek hoe je hersenen werken"
  • "心思大開 : 我在腦中顯影 = Mind wide open"
  • "Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life"@en
  • "La mente de par en par : nuestro cerebro y la neurociencia en la vida cotidiana"@es
  • "心思大開 : "我"在腦中顯影"
  • "Mind wide open : why you are what you think"
  • "Umysł szeroko otwarty : życie codzienne naszego mózgu w świetle współczesnej neurobiologii"@pl
  • "La mente de par en par : nuestro cerebro y la neurociencia de la vida cotidiana"@es
  • "La mente de par en par : nuestro cerebro y la neurociencia de la vida cotidiana"
  • "Mind wide open : one man's journey into the workings of his brain"
  • "Xin si da kai : wo zai nao zhong xian ying = Mind wide open"

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