Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. Joseph LeDoux

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are


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We are not born leaders; this assembly process happens in life, through the synaptic organization of our brains and via patterns of interconnected neural highways. Synaptic Self: How our brains become who we are. View summary of your Clipboard Clipboard. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. How come it was dismissed, therefore, within a matter of a few hours by Ed Balls, the Minister of Education, as being based on totally out-of-date statistics and ideas? Product DescriptionIn 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain. Argues that what is described as the self, or the essence of who a person is, reflects the interactions between the neurons and the synapses in the brain, allowing us to think, act, feel, believe, and make choices. Emotional Brain (Simon and Schuster, 1998), which focuses mainly on emotion, and Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Viking, 2002), which casts a broader net into the areas of personality and selfhood. €�Can a Lack of Sleep Cause Psychiatric Disorders? Joseph LeDoux's second book for lay readers, Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, is about the neurobiological underpinnings ofyou. At last I was internalising what Darwin had said in 1859 that our unique mental powers (the very structure of our brain and the way we think) have been shaped over the millennia by evolution. ISBN13: 9780142001783Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher.