Mind Matters: How Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Lives

Gazzaniga, Michael S.

ISBN 10: 0395500958 / ISBN 13: 9780395500958

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mind Matters: How Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Lives
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395500958
• ISBN 13: 9780395500958
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 20.96H x 1.91D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 20.96 centimeters height by 1.91 centimeters depth
• Weight: 373 grams

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Synopsis

Examining mind-brain interactions in mental states such as anxiety, pain, dreams, depression, love, phobias, and obsessions, the author discusses the complicated way in which the mind interprets the chemical changes in the brain

From Publishers Weekly

Interaction between mental states and the physiochemical changes in our brains can dramatically alter mood and anxiety, as biofeedback researchers have shown. Gazzaniga carries this insight one step further. In his theory, much of what we feel and think is a kind of rationalization. Our mental condition reflects swings in brain chemistry triggered by physiology or genes, and a "left-brain interpreter" steps in to make sense of what we are experiencing on a bodily level. A cognitive scientist at Cornell University Medical Center, the author writes clearly and briskly. Though his report falls flat as a program for managing one's personal life, it contains suggestive insights on topics ranging from pain, depression, phobias and addiction to sleep, schizophrenia and intelligence.
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