Overview
Karl Deisseroth ha dedicado su vida a la comprensiĆ³n de la mente y es uno de los pocos neurĆ³logos que ademĆ”s son psiquiatras con consulta en activo. Esa combinaciĆ³n da lugar a un enfoque extremadamente original que busca la base biolĆ³gica de las enfermedades mentales.
A partir de una investigaciĆ³n puntera y de la experiencia con sus propios pacientes, narra, con una profunda empatĆa, la gran historia de los orĆgenes de las emociones humanas. AsĆ, el caso de una joven con un trastorno de alimentaciĆ³n explica cĆ³mo la mente puede rebelarse contra impulsos tan primitivos como el hambre y la sed; el de un hombre mayor, ahogado por la depresiĆ³n y la demencia, muestra cĆ³mo los seres humanos evolucionaron para sentir no solo la alegrĆa, sino tambiĆ©n su ausencia; y el de una solitaria mujer uigur, alejada de su tierra natal, revela la importancia y los desafĆos de los vĆnculos sociales.
Una obra que transforma lo que sabemos sobre nosotros mismos e ilustra de forma vĆvida, a travĆ©s de las historias humanas, siempre imprescindibles, nuestra bĆŗsqueda de conexiĆ³n y sentido.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, movingāand,Ā at times,Ā harrowingāclinical stories
ā[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.āāNature
āBeautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience.āāRobert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brainās workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brainās inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelingsāhow the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
Through cutting-edge research and gripping case studies from Deisserothās own patients, Projections tells a larger story about the material origins of human emotion, bridging the gap between the ancient circuits of our brain and the poignant moments of suffering in our daily lives. The stories of Deisserothās patients are rich with humanity and shine an unprecedented light on the selfāand the ways in which it can break down. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brainās most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by depression and dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel not only joy but also its absence; and a lonely Uighur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importanceāand challengesāof deep social bonds.
Illuminating, literary, and essential, Projections is a revelatory, immensely powerful work. It transforms our understanding not only of the brain but of ourselves as social beingsāgiving vivid illustrations through science and resonant human stories of our yearning for connection and meaning.
This book title, Conexiones: Una historia de las emociones / Connections: A Story of Human Feelin g, ISBN: 9788417636708, by Karl Deisseroth, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (July 19, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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