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Swaab, D. F. (Dick Frans)
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Brain
Brain -- Aging
Brain -- Research.
Alzheimer's disease
Cognitive neuroscience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Swaab, D. F. (Dick Frans)
Brain
Brain -- Aging
Brain -- Research.
Alzheimer's disease
Cognitive neuroscience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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We
are
our
brains
: a
neurobiography
of the
brain
from the
womb
to
Alzheimer
's / D.F. Swaab ; translated by Jane Hedley-Prole.
by
Swaab, D. F. (Dick Frans)
Spiegel and Grau, 2014.
Call #:
612.82 S971w
Subjects
Brain
Brain
-- Aging
Brain
-- Research.
Alzheimer
's disease
Cognitive neuroscience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
ISBN:
9780812992960
Description:
xxvi, 417 p. : ill., ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"Based [on] groundbreaking new research,
We
Are
Our
Brains
is a sweeping biography of the human
brain
, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine
our
potential,
our
limitations, and
our
desires, with each chapter serving as an eye-opening window on a different stage of
brain
development: the gender differences that develop in the embryonic
brain
, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, how parenthood permanently changes the
brain
. Moving beyond pure biological understanding, Swaab presents a controversial and multilayered ethical argument surrounding the
brain
. Far from possessing true free will, Swaab argues,
we
have very little control over
our
everyday decisions, or who
we
will become, because
our
brains
predetermine everything about us, long before
we
are born, from
our
moral character to
our
religious leanings to whom
we
fall in love with. And he challenges many of
our
prevailing assumptions about what makes us human, decoding the intricate 'moral networks' that allow us to experience emotion, revealing maternal instinct to be the result of hormonal changes in the pregnant
brain
, and exploring the way that religious “imprinting” shapes the
brain
during childhood. Rife with memorable case studies,
We
Are
Our
Brains
is already a bestselling international phenomenon. It aims to demystify the chemical and genetic workings of
our
most mysterious organ, in the process helping us to see who
we
are through an entirely new lens."--Bookjacket.
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