Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain (P.S.) - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 240 in Publisher: Harper Perennial Infiltrating the world of neuroscience Dennis Cass offers up his own ain to research subjecting his mind and body to electric shocks. mind-numbing attention experiments. Cigarettes. Stress tests of his own devising. and the comedy of Bill Maher. Like a slightly off-kilter George Plimpton. Cass. in his daring exploits. reveals the intricacies of fear. attention. stress. reward. and consciousness from the inside out. Along the way. he weaves in the story of his stepfather's manic depression and drug addiction. in addition to his own problems - which are many. Cass attacks the subject of the human ain with wit and candor. turning popular science into something distinctly human. Head Case is an imperative read for
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A lighthearted analysis of neuroscience follows the author's submission to a series of tests, an experiment during which he learns about the intricacies of human fear, anxiety, and consciousness while remembering his family struggles with depression and addiction.
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Dennis Cass has been a journalist for ten years, writing for Harper's, Spin, Mother Jones, and Slate.com. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son.
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- Publication date2008
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When journalist Dennis Cass was nineteen years old his stepfather, Bill, suffered from a psychotic break. Cass tried to commit him to a mental institution only to watch Bill escape from a cab en route to a Harlem hospital and run raving down the streets of Manhattan. Some fifteen years later, a bout of writer's block turned Cass's thoughts toward the brain. A complete stranger to science, Cass immersed himself in the world of neuroscience, subjecting himself to brain scans, psychological tests, and scientific conferences, as he attempted to gain a better understanding of ADHD, anxiety, stress, motivation and reward, and consciousness. Then things got a little weird. What began as a more clinical effort to understand himself soon became a personal and emotional journey into the fragile, mysterious workings of the mind and the self. "Head Case" is a charming, hilarious, and at times harrowing memoir of scientific experimentation. It's a story of science and society, of fathers and sons, and of how the past lives on in the present. Along the way the book asks timeless questions: What do we know about ourselves? What can we know about ourselves? And how much self-knowledge can a single person handle? Infiltrating the world of neuroscience, Cass becomes a human guinea pig on a darkly comic journey to understand the human brain and find out what makes us who we are. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060594732
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