Book Review: Best of the Brain from Scientific American
The recently published Best of the Brain from Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow's Brain is reviewed in the June issue of Harper's Magazine. Gary Greenberg discusses the book with several other newly published titles on neuroscience and society in a long and wide-ranging essay. He notes:
If you are going to live, whether you like it or not, in thrall to your brain, then your future belongs in some way to the doctors who claim to be the only people qualified to explain you to yourself. . . . The prominent neuroscientists who contribute to Best of the Brain are sure that a full explication of its operation is just a supersized technical challenge that will soon be met.
Read the full Harper's Magazine review
Learn more about Best of the Brain from Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow's Brain, published by Dana Press