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This title in other editionseBook editionsSynaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Areby Joseph Ledoux
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain caused a sensation in 1996 for its revelations about the biological basis of our emotions and memories. Now LeDoux follows up that path-breaking volume with a new book that tells a larger and more profoundly important story: how our brains, and particularly their synapses, create our personalities. Synopsis:Ranging widely through philosophy, literature, and the history of science, LeDoux examines how we have conceptualized the relationship between brain and self through the centuries. His own contribution, based on two decades of research, begins with the startlingly simple premise that the self-the essence of who a person is-intricately reflects patterns of interconnectivity between neurons in the brain. Synapses, the spaces between neurons, are not only the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember, but also the means by which we encode our most fundamental traits, preferences, and beliefs, allowing us to function as a single, integrated individual-a synaptic self. As LeDoux brilliantly argues, a synaptic self does not exclude other ways of understanding existence-spiritual, aesthetic, moral-but rather it enriches and broadens these avenues by providing a neurological/psychological construct grounded in the latest research in biology. Rather than join the age-old debate on whether nature or nurture is more determinative, LeDoux posits that both genes and experience contribute to synaptic connectivity. Mind expanding in every sense of the word, Synaptic Self represents an important breakthrough in one of the last frontiers of medical research. About the AuthorJoseph LeDoux, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University's Center for Neural Sciences, is the author of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life and the co-author with Michael Gazzaniga of The Integrated Mind. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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