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To many of us, the human brain is a mystery. To Shannon Moffett, a Stanford medical student, and to the experts she’s interviewed, it is an irresistible enigma. Moffett takes us down the halls of neuroscience to the front lines of cutting-edge research and medicine to meet some of today’s most extraordinary minds, including

• Dr. Roberta Glick, a neurosurgeon who takes us into the operating room to remove a bullet lodged in a patient’s skull;
• Dr. John Gabrieli, a cognitive neuroscientist who illustrates how and where in the brain we experience emotion;
• neuroscientist Dr. Christof Koch, who worked with the late Nobel Laureate Francis Crick and is on a quest to find the cellular basis of consciousness by studying how we see;
• Dr. Robert Stickgold, a pioneer in dream research who shows how waking life influences dreaming life and vice versa.

With illustrations and extraordinary case histories, The Three-Pound Enigma is engaging, enlightening, and thought-provoking.]]> 79902 3.86 29 8 2006 0 2009-02-04T15:48:53-08:00 347789 158 2009-02-04T15:48:53-08:00 0 2009-02-01T16:15:07-08:00 335321 147 2009-02-01T16:15:07-08:00 4 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:13:06 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:35:53 -0800 2009
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