EAN: 9780241381878

CONNECTIONS - KARL DEISSEROTH KARTONIERT (TB)

In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind  a world-renowned
psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion  and examines what mental
illnesses reveal about all of us - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken. Why do we feel
what we feel? Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering  but the reasons
we bear this burden  and the nature of these diseases  have remained mysterious. Now  our
understanding has reached a tipping point. In Connections  Professor Karl Deisseroth
intertwines gripping case studies from his experience as an emergency psychiatry physician 
with breakthrough scientific discoveries from astounding new technology (including optogenetics
which he developed to allow turning specific brain cells on or off  with light). By linking
insights from this technology to deeply moving stories of his patients and to our shared
evolutionary history  Deisseroth tells a larger story about the origins of human emotion. A
young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain's most
primitive drives of hunger and thirst  an older man  smothered into silence by dementia  shows
how humans evolved to feel joy and its absence  and a lonely Uyghur woman far from her homeland
teaches both the importance - and challenges - of deep social bonds. Addressing some of the
most timeless questions about the human condition while illuminating the roots of misunderstood
disorders such as depression  psychosis  schizophrenia and sociopathy  Connections transforms
the way we understand the brain  and our selves.

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