Synaptic Self
Thursday, 22 March 2007 @ 20:40
How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph LeDoux (2002)
Lucidly written and generously illustrated with simple diagrams, Synaptic Self analyses the way the psychological, social, moral, aesthetic or spiritual self is realised through the interconnectivity between neurons. LeDoux thoroughly and comprehensively summarises and explains neuroscientific terms and discoveries up to the year the book was published (2002), taking the readers through fascinating tour of the working machinery of the brain and nervous system: the relation between memory and hippocampus (retro/anterograde amnesia), Hebbian learning, cellular mechanism of working memory, the highly developed PFC in human, the popular oxytocin and vasopressin, motive circuitry, dopamine behavioural invigoration, and nervous illness.
