Mind Wide Open

Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

Recommended by Ev Williams, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #51 in Neuroscience, Ranked #80 in Educational Psychology

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...
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