reissued – ‘The Neurotourist: Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science’
Written on July 23, 2011
The Neurotourist: Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science by Lone Frank (Oneworld, 2011)
Product description from the publisher:
Acclaimed journalist and intrepid brain “explorer” Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today’s top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, health, and reality itself. Interlacing bizarre experiments, cutting-edge science, and irreverent interviews, The Neurotourist is an odyssey through the mind-bending revolution underway in the new age of the brain.
This appears to be a reissue or new edition of Mindfield: How Brain Science is Changing Our World, published in 2009.
See also: “The quest to build the perfect lie detector,” a fascinating “condensed excerpt” from the book at Salon.com
Filed in: cognitive science.
