Lisa Feldman Barrett Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Product description Review Beautiful writing and sublime insights that will blow your mind like a string of firecrackers. If you want a rundown of the brain and its magic, start here. -- David Eagleman, New York Times bestselling author of Incognito Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain reads like a novel – and its main character is all of us. In fresh and lively prose, Barrett provides deep insight into what brains are for, how they operate and are programmed, how they create the 'reality' we experience, and how they ultimately produce our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Read this book! It will make you smarter about yourself, and your species. -- Leonard Mlodinow, New York Times bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk A smart and delightfully breezy look at the things most of us think we know about the brain, but don't. -- Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness From the Back Cover Praise for How Emotions Are Made: ‘How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down.’ Malcolm Gladwell ‘A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.’ Daniel Gilbert ‘Meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought out . . . For anyone who has struggled to reconcile brain and heart, this book will be a treasure; it explains the science without short-changing the humanism of its topic.’ Andrew Solomon ‘Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.’ Wall Street Journal ‘A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.’ Scientific American About the Author Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made and received a NIH Director's Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.