Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Johnson, Steven
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Johnson, Steven

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's...
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Author: Steven Johnson
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Johnson, Steven

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

¥4,554
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Johnson, Steven

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

¥4,554
Author: Steven Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks:
  • How do we read other people?

  • What is the neurochemistry behind love and sex?

  • What does it mean that the brain is teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs?

  • Why does music move us to tears?

  • Where do breakthrough ideas come from?

Johnson answers these and many more questions arising from the events of our everyday lives. You do not have to be a neuroscientist to wonder, for example, why do you smile? And why do you sometimes smile inappropriately, even if you don't want to? How do others read your inappropriate smile? How does such interplay occur neurochemically, and what, if anything, can you do about it?
Fascinating and rewarding, Mind Wide Open speaks to brain buffs, self-obsessed neurotics, barstool psychologists, mystified parents, grumpy spouses, exasperated managers, and anyone who enjoys speculating and gossiping about the motivations and behaviors of other human beings. Steven Johnson shows us the transformative power of understanding brain science and offers new modes of introspection and tools for better parenting, better relationships, and better living.

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/10/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.66w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780743241663


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 127
New York Times 07/24/2005 pg. 24

About the Author
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of Interface Culture, Emergence, and Everything Bad Is Good for You as well as a columnist for Discover and a contributing editor at Wired. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons, and can be reached via the Web at www.stevenberlinjohnson.com
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