Ebook {Epub PDF} We Are Our Brains by Dick Swaab

In We Are Our Brains Dick Swaab presents evidence that contradicts this belief, claiming that everything about us – including the diseases that will affect our minds – is present in our neuronal circuits long before we are born. Upbringing and therapy have little influence. Swaab, who has researched the brain since , has a rare ability. We are our brains by prof. dr. Dick Swaab. Without a doubt, a complete edition on the fundamentals of our human brain. It provides the reader with content about the brain from A till Z and the author knows how to explain it in a way normal human beings can bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that /5().

The Dutch Professor of Neurobiology at Amsterdam University has authored an at first unremarkable sounding book, We are our Brains. On the face of it, his four-decade, impressive CV would have you. Consciousness Depression Robert Schumann: Hypomane fase: ( and ) 20 + works - Nothing in depressive fase Winston Churchill: Mood changes -'Neglect' after braindamage in right side of the brain - Locked-In-Syndrome - Animals can recognize themself in mirror: chimpanzee. In this no.1 Dutch bestseller, renowned neuroscientist Dick Swaab presents a biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age, revealing how our most mysterious organ predetermines nearly everything about us. Drawing on a half century of his own groundbreaking research, Swaab shows that everything we think, do, and refrain from doing is determined by our brain.

Swaab describes how our brains work from their very beginnings in the womb and on through old age and dementia to death and even beyond. He explains how gender differences develop in the embryonic brain, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, and criminals, how moral behaviour develops, how our memories work and how our brains influence our choice of partner. Swaab is not writing to reassure us. In every phase of life much can go wrong. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don't just have brains: we are our brains. About the Author Dick Swaab is a renowned neuroscience researcher who has received international acclaim for his work on sex differences in the brain, Alzheimer's disease and depression. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don't just have brains: we are our brains. Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain.