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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are Paperback - 2003

by LeDoux, Joseph

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Following up his 1996 "The Emotional Brain, " the world-renowned brain expert presents 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, feel, imagine, act, and remember.

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  • Title Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
  • Author LeDoux, Joseph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd printing
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-01-28
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0142001783
  • ISBN 9780142001783 / 0142001783
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 6 x 0.93 in (21.49 x 15.24 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 612.82

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Summary

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 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.

From the publisher

Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University's Center for Neural Sciences. He is the author of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life and coauthor (with Michael Gazzaniga) of The Integrated Mind.

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But maybe we know more than we think.

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"A detailed but very accessible journey into the world of circuits and synapses." —Science



"LeDoux's work...is surely the most accessible contemporary work for those interested in the brain's effect on personality." —Booklist

About the author

Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University's Center for Neural Sciences. He is the author of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life and coauthor (with Michael Gazzaniga) of The Integrated Mind.