num_pages: 304
description: Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric R. Kandel the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work has helped shape our understanding of how learning and memory work. Building from this scientific research Kandel explores one of the most fundamental questions we face: How does our mind our individual sense of self arise from the physical matter of the brain? The brains 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. If those connections are disrupted the brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered resulting in diseases such as depression schizophrenia Parkinsons and autism.The Disordered Mind illustrates how breakthrough studies of these disruptions can deepen our understanding of thought feeling behavior memory and creativity and perhaps in the future will lead to the development of a unified theory of mind.
language: English
title: The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux