What Should We Do with Our Brain?

by Catherine Malabou

Book Overview

Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized "plasticity," the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.

Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082322953X
• ISBN13: 9780823229536
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.1"