Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph LeDoux
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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I am extremely interested in how the brain works. After I graduated with my bachelor’s degree and before starting my master’s (in fields unrelated to brain function), I worked for a professor examining fMRI scans, which piqued an already healthy interest in the brain and mind. Almost everything written on the topic for a lay audience will eventually end up in my hands. Synaptic Self seemed especially interesting to me — who doesn’t want to know how the brain creates the self? It’s one of the fundamental questions of life. Unfortunately, I got to this book about seven years too late.
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Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at the Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University.
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Il Sé sinaptico : come il nostro cervello ci fa diventare quelli che siamo
- Original title
- Synaptic self: how our brains become who we are
- Original publication date
- 2002
- First words
- "I don't know, so maybe I'm not," the T-shirt said.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They are who you are.
- Blurbers
- Gardner, Howard; Schacter, Daniel L.; Damasio, Antonio R.
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- 6 — English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean
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- Paper, Ebook
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