The Brain: The Last Frontier

By Ri Restak

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446936170
• ISBN13: 9780446936170
• Release Date: July 1980
• Publisher: Warner Books
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating book on how the brain works-loved it!

Just think, at any one space in time, inside your brain, 15 billion interactions are going on right now - thinking,feeling, sensing, caring, comparing, judging, deciding . . . I found this book to be very deep and comprehensive - certainly fascinating in that I will never look at the brain the same way again. This one is a real "keeper", to be shared with anyone that may be interested in this subject.

Contents:

Explore the brain with neurologist Restak as a basis of our emotional and mental capacities, as it affects language, health, and personality. Explore it as...The Last Frontier in man's understanding of life itself.Can we make a robot that can really think?Can we discover how to turn off pain?Can we retard the effects of age on the mind?Can we eliminate some diseases by correcting malfunctions in the brain?Restak, even more sharply than Sagan, puts into provocative focus what has been learned by psychologists, biologists and other scientists...he makes clear the true difference between computer 'thinking' and human thought: the mystery which some call soul.