States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are

Edited by: Roberta Conlan, (Adapted from the original talks by J. Allan Hobson, Jerome Kagan, Joseph LeDoux, Kay Redfield Jamison, Steven Hyman, Eric Kandel, Bruce McEwen, Ester Sternberg at the Smithsonian Associates-Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives lecture series, "Understanding the Human Psyche")

ISBN: 0-471-29963-4

 
Susceptibility and "Second Hits" (S. Hyman).
Born to Be Shy? (J. Kagan).
A Magical Orange Grove in a Nightmare: Creativity and Mood Disorders (K. Jamison).
Stress and the Brain (B. McEwen).
Emotions and Disease: A Balance of Molecules (E. Sternberg).
The Power of Emotions (J. LeDoux).
Of Learning, Memory, and Genetic Switches (E. Kandel).
Order from Chaos (J. Hobson).
Notes.
Index.

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