Mapping the Mind
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520224612
ISBN 13
9780520224612
Category
Non-Fiction
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
224
Subject
Child Development
Description
Mapping the Mind charts the way human behavior and culture have been molded by the landscape of the brain. Carter shows how our personalities reflect the biological mechanisms underlying thought and emotion and how behavioral eccentricities may be traced to abnormalities in an individual brain. Obsessions and compulsions seem to be caused by a stuck neural switch in a region that monitors the environment for danger. Addictions stem from dysfunction in the brain's reward system. Even the sense of religious experience has been linked to activity in a certain brain region.
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