"The big questions facing neuroscience are about how brain circuits contribute to self and personality, to identity. Todd Feinberg is one of the few clinician-scientists tackling these complex and important issues. I enjoyed From Axons to Identity and learned a lot, especially from the telling case studies."
Joseph LeDoux, University Professor, NYU, and author of Synaptic Self: How Our ... Read moreBrains Become Who We Are and of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life "From Axons to Identity confirms Todd Feinberg’s status as one of the world’s leading thinkers on the neuropsychology of selfhood. He is probing one of the Big Questions of 21st-century neuroscience: How does the brain, with its diverse and distributed functions, come to arrive at a unified sense of identity? The result is a genuinely radical and illuminating synthesis of philosophical and scientific ideas. This is exhilarating stuff."
Paul Broks, neuropsychologist and author of Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology "From Axons to Identity is a rich, thought-provoking, and rewarding book with much to teach anyone interested in questions about mind and brain."
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