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Connections : a story of human feeling / Karl Deisseroth.

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ISBN 9780241381878 (paperback)
Author Deisseroth, Karl author.
Title Connections : a story of human feeling / Karl Deisseroth.
Publisher/Date [London] UK : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.
©2021
Pagination etc. 231 pages ; 24 cm
Contents note Originally published as 'Projections': New York: Random House, [2021].
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note In this ground-breaking tour of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist uses the stories of his patients to explore the origins of human emotion. Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the nature of these diseases, have remained mysterious. Now, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In Connections, Professor Karl Deisseroth intertwines gripping case studies from his experience as an emergency psychiatry physician, with breakthrough scientific discoveries from astounding new technology (including optogenetics, which he developed to allow turning specific brain cells on or off, with light). By linking insights from this technology to deeply moving stories of his patients and to our shared evolutionary history, Deisseroth tells a larger story about the origins of human emotion. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain's most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel joy and its absence; and a lonely Uyghur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance - and challenges - of deep social bonds. Addressing some of the most timeless questions about the human condition while illuminating the roots of misunderstood disorders such as depression, psychosis, schizophrenia and sociopathy, Connections transforms the way we understand the brain, and our selves.
Subject Client-centered psychotherapy -- Case studies
Emotions
Mental illness
Optogenetics
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