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The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind Hardcover - 2003
by Richard Restak
A preeminent brain expert and bestselling author takes readers into the fascinating world of the brain and shows how cell phones, laptops, violence on TV, MTV, and the Internet have actually sped up an evolution of the human brain that indeed may be irrevocable.
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HOW THE MODERN AGE IS REWIRING YOUR MIND
"The wise, witty, and ethical Dr. Restak has given us ... a book vital to understanding our own role in influencing our ongoing evolution as a species. He guides us gently and humbly through synaptic connections we did not know we had, thus igniting us to insatiable curiosity about our potentials."
--Wilton S. Dillon, Ph.D., Senior Scholar Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
The Era of the New Brain ...
... IS HERE
Genetic mapping, imaging technology, and psychopharmacology have converged to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the brain works and how we can affect its operation. But what does this mean? Already our brains are working differently than they did just one hundred years ago, as we respond to the barrage of media images, violent and provocative, and attend to the demands of the modern world. "Cosmetic" drugs that work in the brain to prevent us from feeling drowsy, depressed, anxious, or fearful, or that enhance concentration and memory are already available. Dramatic treatments to repair damage in the brain are becoming common.
In The New Brain, Dr. Richard Restak guides you through the frontiers of modern brain science and offers cautionary but also optimistic thoughts on the direction of this work. He says that in the era of the New Brain it will be necessary to tread carefully, lest we imprison ourselves in concepts that diminish, rather than enhance, our freedom.
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- Title The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind
- Author Richard Restak
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rodale Books, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date August 23, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781579545017 / 1579545017
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.28 x 0.85 in (23.67 x 15.95 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003005773
- Dewey Decimal Code 612.82
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- Publishers Weekly, 06/30/2003, Page 70
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