Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience Hardcover - 2015
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
From the rear cover
With a Foreword by Steven Pinker
In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Michael S. Gazzaniga tells the story of his passionate, entrepreneurial life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate their separate agendas. From his time as an ambitious undergraduate at Dartmouth, as a member of its now famed "Animal House" fraternity, and his life as a diligent graduate student in California to the first experiments he conducted in his own lab; from meeting his first split-brain patients and his collaboration with esteemed intellectuals across disciplines, Gazzaniga recounts the trajectory of his discoveries. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades-in-arms--the many patients, friends, and family members who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery.
"The idea that one skull can house two minds, each with a measure of autonomy, has also given way to the idea that we all have 'multiple minds' operating as a 'confederation, ' according to Gazzaniga. How this system creates a seemingly unified mind . . . remains a compelling question." --New York Times Book Review
"Tales will be cataloged as scientific autobiography. . . . But it is as much a book about gratitude--for the chance to study a subject as endlessly fascinating as the brain, for the author's brilliant colleagues and . . . for the patients who taught him . . . so much." --Wall Street Journal
"The personal story of a genius famous for one of the rare major discoveries ever made out in the still vast, still baffling terra incognita of the human brain, namely, the split-brain phenomenon." --Tom Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff
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- Title Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
- Author Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, NY
- Date 2015-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780062228802 / 0062228803
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Intellect, Split brain
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/2014, Page 17
- Choice, 08/01/2015, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 02/27/2015, Page 61
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal, 01/01/2015, Page 129
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/2014, Page 46
- New York Times Book Review, 04/05/2015, Page 30
- Publishers Weekly, 12/22/2014, Page 0
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