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Can we know something without being aware that we know it? How does someone with severe amnesia still recognize himself in the mirror? How are we able to erase a traumatic event from our memory? And, how, at only three pounds (80 percent of which is only water), does the human brain give rise to consciousness? How is it capable of outstripping the computational and storage capacities of the most complex computer?
To many of us, the human brain is a mystery. To Shannon Moffett, a Stanford medical student, and to the experts she’s interviewed, it is an irresistible enigma. Moffett takes us down the halls of neuroscience to the front lines of cutting-edge research and medicine to meet some of today’s most extraordinary minds, including
• Dr. Roberta Glick, a neurosurgeon who takes us into the operating
room to remove a bullet lodged in a patient’s skull;
• Dr. John Gabrieli, a cognitive neuroscientist who illustrates how and
where in the brain we experience emotion;
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Neuroscientist Dr. Christof Koch, who worked with the late Nobel Laureate
Francis Crick and is on a quest to find the cellular basis of consciousness
by studying how we see;
• Dr. Robert Stickgold, a pioneer in dream research who shows how waking
life influences dreaming life and vice versa.
With illustrations and extraordinary case histories, The Three-Pound Enigma is engaging, enlightening, and thought-provoking.
| Learn how the author's experiences in a lab, a lecture hall and a slaughterhouse led to this book. |