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Current scientific orthodoxy asserts that the human brain is like a computer, but the authors and many of the 175 brain scientists they interviewed are not so sure. This intriguing survey features distinguished researchers who throw their scientific weight behind the idea that the mind is more than the brain. Omni science writers Hooper and Teresi let the chips fall as they may. They charge that human-potential gurus who tout the cerebral right hemisphere as the ``creative'' half of the brain are oversimplifying split-brain theory. Their interview with Harvard sleep researchers suggests that a drastic revision of Freud's dream theory is in order. A kaleidoscopic array of investigations deals with the role of chemical messengers in mental illness, how electrical stimulation can shut off the brain's fear/rage switch, multiple personalities, chimpanzee vocabulary, amnesia and more. The book's second half explores the outer frontiers of current brain research, including studies of hallucination, near-death experiences and the theory of brain as hologram. An exciting, open-minded, state-ofthe-art brain scanone of the best books of its kind. First serial to Omni and New Age; Natural Science Book Club alternate. (February 13) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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It's the brain they're talking about and this is neuroscience, as Omni editors Hooper and Teresi see it. The style is the magazine's mod tone of interviews in the office or home, replete with details of the landscape, the furnishing, the clothes; it's breezy, sometimes intrusive, but often produces a vivid image or catchy aside. Pondering the prospect of having no memories, for example, the pair declare, ""Without them you'd be about as individual as the lobby of a Ramada Inn."" As to content, the authors span the spectrum of the neurosciences: anatomy, physiology, theories of learning, perception, memory, causes of disease. They consider the role of emotions and will; the putative pathways and centers for the roster of mental activities. They touch base with most of the Big Names--Eric Kandel on learning in sea mails; Solomon Snyder on endorphins and other neurotransmitters; Louis Sokoloff on brain scans which show which parts of the brain are active under given test conditions. And they dig sufficiently far back to resurrect Karl Lashley and his search for the (memory) engram and to recall Wilder Penfield's tappings into the brains of neurosurgery patients and hearing them report long-ago memories. Indeed, if the book has a central theme it could be defined as the age-old metaphysical question of the relationship between mind and brain, invoking Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, et al. Many an interviewee is queried on whether he or she is a reductionist, a dualist, a ghost-in-the-machine believer, an ""emergent property"" theorist or what. Some readers will find this laboring beside the point--like asking a molecular biologist when life begins. When the authors do stick to the subject at hand, be it brain waves or behavioral drugs, they are often very good at short sharp state-of-the-art summaries and are becomingly unbiased, presenting opposing theories or counterevidence with equanimity. This is a big book that catches the mood of a field that is undergoing explosive growth and that in itself is an achievement. However, the authors devote a major hunk of their finale to alternate states of consciousness: hallucinations, near-death experiences, more Berkeley-Hume ponderings laced with Jung and Eastern philosophy. For the most part, however, these sections are a rehash of believers and debunkers' theories and a departure from mainstream neuroscience. Pick and choose then, appreciating that there is much of value in this OMNIgatherium. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Hooper and Teresi of Omni magazine offer the general reader an excellent survey of neuroscience, based on interviews with major figures on the cutting edge of research. This is exciting reading about a world of fast-breaking discoveries, the underlying theme of which is the search for the basis of consciousness: the mind/brain relationship. The authors engage the reader's interest with their clear presentation of the ``hard'' science of the brainanatomy, physiology, chemistrywithout compromising the complexity of the many new findings. The more subjective areasaltered states, dreams, near-death reports, etc.get, perhaps, more space than they warrant, but these do appeal to most readers. Highly recommended for general collections. Macmillan Natural Science Book Club alternate. George Adelman, Editor, ``Encyclopedia of Neuroscience'' (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.