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 							Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (May 10, 2005)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10: 0743241665
  ISBN-13: 978-0743241663
  
  
  
  
  
  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.
  
  Amazon.com
Review
  Given the opportunity to watch the inner workings of his own brain, Steven Johnson jumps at the chance. He
reveals the results in Mind Wide Open, an engaging and personal account of his foray into edgy brain science. In the
21st century, Johnson observes, we have become used to ideas such as "adrenaline rushes" and "serotonin levels," without
really recognizing that complex neurobiology has become a commonplace thing to talk about. He sees recent laboratory
revelations about the brain as crucial for understanding ourselves and our psyches in new, post-Freudian ways. Readers
shy about slapping electrodes on their own temples can get a vicarious scientific thrill as Johnson tries out empathy
tests, neurofeedback, and fMRI scans. The results paint a distinct picture of the author, and uncover general brain
secrets at the same time. Memory, fear, love, alertness--all the multitude of states housed in our brains are shown to
be the results of chemical and electrical interactions constantly fed and changed by input from our senses. Mind Wide
Open both satisfies curiosity and provokes more questions, leaving readers wondering about their own gray matter.
--Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  From Publishers
Weekly
  It's the rare popular science book that not only gives the reader a gee-whiz glimpse at an emerging field,
but also offers a guide for incorporating its new insights into one's own worldview. Johnson, the former editor of the
Webzine Feed and author of the acclaimed Emergence (2001), does just that in his fascinating, engagingly written new
survey. Applying what he calls "the `long-decay' test" to gauge the information's enduring relevance, he chooses a
handful of current neuroscience concepts with the potential to transform our thinking about emotions, memories and
consciousness. In a charming device, the writer subjects himself to the latest in neurological testing techniques, from
biofeedback to the latest forms of MRI, and shares the insight he gains into the moment-by-moment workings of his own
brain, from the adrenaline spike he gets from making jokes to his intense focus when composing sentences. The structure
is fluid almost to a fault, as Johnson illustrates, elaborates on and returns to his view of the brain as a modular,
associative network, "more like an orchestra than a soloist." He introduces the amygdala, for example, as a small region
in the brain implicated in our ongoing, nearly automatic interpretation of the emotional states of others (called "mind
reading"), a function impaired in autistic individuals. But the amygdala, the brain's source of "gut feelings," returns
in the following chapter as important in encoding fearful memories, a connection that helps explain why fearful or
traumatic memories are so much more tenacious and detailed than emotionally neutral ones. Always considerate of his
audience, Johnson weaves disparate strands of brain research and theory smoothly into the narrative (only a concluding
section on Freud's modern legacy feels like a tangent), which leaves readers' minds more open than they were. 
 
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  
   						

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