Receptors - Softcover

Restak, Richard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553374419 ISBN 13: 9780553374414

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995

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Book by Restak MD Richard

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Documenting new advances in neuroscience technology, an in-depth examination describes the scientific potential to cure mental disorders and alter human personality, and considers the ethics of such manipulations. Reprint.

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e were a pill that could change you from an introvert to the exuberant extrovert you always wanted to be?  A capsule to make you more assertive, creative, or intelligent?  What is you could "design" your own brain?  Who would you be? Only a few years ago such possibilities seemed the stuff of science fiction, but in today's laboratory remarkable new advances in brain research are making such transformations a reality.  In Receptors,  famed neuropsychiatrist Richard Restek leads us on an exhilarating--and sometimes disquieting--scientific adventure into this bold new frontier. He shows us how break-through discoveries are enabling neuroscientists to decode the mysteries of the human brain, holding out the exciting possibility of relieving, and ultimately even curing, conditions such as memory loss, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, and even Alzheimer's disease.  He documents the likelihood that in the very near fut

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553374419
• ISBN 13: 9780553374414
• Einband: Tapa blanda