The future of the brain : the promise and perils of tomorrow's neuroscience / Steven Rose.
Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to b...
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Table of Contents:
- The promise and the threat
- The past is the key to the present
- From 1 to 100 billion in nine months
- Becoming human
- Becoming a person
- Having a brain, being a mind
- Ageing brains, wiser minds
- What we know, what we might know and what we can't know
- Healing the mind via the brain
- Modulating, mending or manipulating
- The next big thing?
- Ethics in a neurocentric world.