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The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation

Title
The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation / John Horgan.
Author
Horgan, John, 1953-
Publication
New York : Free Press, ©1999.

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Description
325 pages; 25 cm
Summary
A respected journalist explores the fields of science that try to explain the mysteries of the human mind, arguing that science has done little to plumb the depths of our minds and cannot ever rationally explain all of human behavior.
Subject
  • Neurosciences > Popular works
  • Neurosciences
  • Neurosciences
  • Neurosciences > Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  • Anthropologie
  • Kognitionswissenschaft
  • Neurowetenschappen
  • Neuropsychologie
  • Wetenschapsbeoefening
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Kognitionswissenschaft
  • Anthropologie
Genre/Form
  • Popular works.
  • Popular Work
  • Popular works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I-witnessing -- Neuroscience's explanatory gap -- Why Freud isn't dead -- Psychotherapy and the dodo hypothesis -- Prozac and other placebos -- Gene-whiz science -- Darwin to the rescue! -- Artificial common sense -- The consciousness conundrum -- The future of mind-science.
ISBN
  • 0684850753
  • 9780684850757
  • 0684865785
  • 9780684865782
LCCN
99031051
OCLC
  • ocm41299371
  • 41299371
  • SCSB-9757667
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library