bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfic-nov-2015, nonfiction, published-2007, tbr-busting-2015, sciences, medical-eew, psychology Read from November 23 to 25, 2015 Description: You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot ...
This book was mostly about addiction, and talked a lot about drugs. I was hoping more time would be spent discussing how pleasure functions in a healthy, positive way, and then also learning about the flip side. It certainly had a few interesting insights about addiction, but the interesting bits ...
A nice pop-but-somewhat-technical book on dopamine. I found it easy to follow, but it is neurochemically focused and probably requires some familiarity with brain function.
I should have been a neuroscientist. I love this stuff so much! Linden does a great job here of explaining without either oversimplifying or obfuscating. I learned a lot about the pleasure circuitry of the brain. Perhaps my favorite bit was near the end, where Linden takes on Kurzweil's singularity ...
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