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Judith Horstman, Scientific American, "The Scientific American Brave New Brain: How Neuroscience, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Epigenetics, the Internet, and Our ... and Enhancing the Future of Mental Power"

near future. It shows how scientific breakthroughs and amazing research are turning science fiction into science fact. In this brave new book, you'll explore:

•How partnerships between biological sciences and technology are helping the deaf hear, the blind see, and the paralyzed communicate.

•How our brains can repair and improve themselves, erase traumatic memories

•How we can stay mentally alert longer—and how we may be able to halt or even reverse Alzheimers

•How we can control technology with brain waves, including prosthetic devices, machinery, computers—and even spaceships or clones.

•Insights into how science may cure fatal diseases, and improve our intellectual and physical productivity

Judith Horstman presents a highly informative and entertaining look at the future of your brain, based on articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines, and the work of today’s visionary neuroscientists.

Summary: By George, Judith, you've done it again!

Rating: 5

Whereas her earlier, trailbreaking effort, The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain, was a hitchhiker's guide to our current culture's least understood and most neglected organ, this offering provides both guidance and hope to those of us who were either too timid to take organic chemistry or slept through it. Horstman allows us to examine the future of our wondrous meat computers in an organized, deliberate, and entertaining way. Her journalist's sensibility and way around words will capture and amuse even anemic attention spans. More importantly, as we Boomers continue to turn earnestly to our quest to live forever - or at least extend the lease a bit - Horstman's books provide a sound, objective basis for separating the geniuses from the jeremiads. Buy and read these books - you'll make a lot of frustrated neuroscientists very happy.

Summary: The Boomer Brain

Rating: 5

With a play on the futuristic phrase a 'brave new world' (from Shakespeare's //Tempest//), this new Scientific American publication gathers articles dealing with current research and theories on the structure, chemistry, imaging of, and technological influences on the brain. The topic is intriguing. The least-understood organ of the body, the one that determines who and what we are, is being subjected to intense examination in the hope that this might improve our cranial capabilities. Articles have been extracted from past and (planned) future issues of //Scientific American// to present the current state of neuroscience to the lay public.

As the "baby boomer" cohort ages, preventing neurophysiological degeneration becomes a prime concern. One section of the book looks at the possible boosting of brain power with drugs, exercises, and diet. The brain is constantly changing, and this aspect is covered in an introductory chapter on neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and maintenance of new brain cells. (No need to worry about this terminology: all science terms are clearly explained for the general reader.) Another section deals with memory and looks at dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

If you have ever wondered how the mind is changing because of the digital invasion, read on to see how your inner computer is being affected. What about brain flaws that produce pathologic behaviors, autism, and other problems? These may be detected through brain scans that pick up structural or chemical anomalies. Changes to the brain can be effected through gene therapy, implants, rewiring, pharmacology, and other means. There is an arsenal of techniques that can be used to look into our brains and also to treat problems.

With its easily comprehensible format, concise writing, excellent organization, and clear explanations of the wondrous possibilities the future holds for enhancing our brain power, this book will amaze the reader.

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