Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 1st Edition by Steven Johnson ISBN 0743241657 9780743241656 by Steven Johnson 9780743241656, 0743241657 instant download after payment.

Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 1st Edition by Steven Johnson - Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0743241657, 9780743241656
Full download Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0743241657 
ISBN 13: 9780743241656
Author: Steven Johnson

BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.

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.

Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 1st Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: The First Thought (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

  • (Explores how modern brain imaging technologies, particularly fMRI, allow us to observe brain activity, and introduces the idea of localizing functions within the brain.)

• Chapter 2: The Emotional Brain (Amygdala)

  • (Focuses on the amygdala and its role in processing emotions, especially fear and anxiety, and how these basic emotional responses shape our experiences.)

• Chapter 3: The Conscious Brain (Frontal Lobe)

  • (Delves into the functions of the frontal lobe, particularly its role in higher-order thinking, decision-making, planning, and conscious awareness.)

• Chapter 4: The Plastic Brain (Hippocampus)

  • (Examines the hippocampus and its crucial role in memory formation, particularly the concept of neuroplasticity—how the brain changes and adapts over time.)

• Chapter 5: The Social Brain (Mirror Neurons)

  • (Discusses mirror neurons and their implications for empathy, imitation, and social learning, exploring how our brains are wired for social interaction.)

• Chapter 6: The Narrating Brain (Left Hemisphere)

  • (Explores the role of the left hemisphere in constructing narratives, creating a coherent sense of self, and making sense of our experiences.)

• Chapter 7: The Future Brain (Prefrontal Cortex)

  • (Looks at the prefrontal cortex and its involvement in executive functions, foresight, and envisioning future possibilities, linking it to decision-making and planning for tomorrow.)

• Chapter 8: The Dreaming Brain (Sleep)

  • (Investigates the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, exploring what happens in the brain during different sleep stages and the potential functions of dreaming.)

• Chapter 9: The Spiritual Brain (Default Mode Network and Mystical Experiences)

  • (Explores the neurological basis of spiritual or mystical experiences, potentially discussing brain networks activated during such states, and the interface between neuroscience and subjective experience.)

People also search for Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 1st:

mind wide open your brain and the neuroscience
    
mind vs brain psychology
    
what part of the brain controls the mind
    
how does the mind work with the brain
    
mind vs brain philosophy

Tags: Steven Johnson, Mind, Wide