I've been reading a lot of books on the brain and psychology, and compared to those, this one is more about the brain itself- its structure, its neurons, and, above all, its connections. The idea of a connectome- pronounced "connect-tome"- is that technology is reaching the point where we will be able to map out all the connections in the brain, which will help us understand thought, memory, mental disorders, and so on. The book includes historical background, an assessment of the present state of connectomics and nueroscience (including a lot of places where technology needs to advance before more can be known), and ends with a look at some of the possibilities of the very distant future (think cryonics and uploading of consciousness) and the reasons such things are possible but perhaps unlikely. Recommended for those who are interested in the mechanisms behind the brain and in the future of neuroscience.