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Lädt ... The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Racevon Daniel Z. Lieberman, Michael E. Long
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. With brilliant insights such as "The important thing to remember is that liberals want to help people become better, conservatives want to let people be happy, and politicians want power," all of which is apparently determined by their respective levels of dopamine, this book gets three stars for neuroscience and one star for political science. ( ) A rather interesting book all about dopamine, and how it controls us and shapes our world. Me thinks everyone should read all the books they can about neurotransmitters, this being a fairly good one. The annoying thing to me is that while there's quite a lot of discussion on how our genetics affect out dopamine levels and responses, there is a complete lack of discussion on epigenetics, as though they have no influence whatsoever. There's also a complete lack on how diet and lifestyle affects dopamine and other neurotransmitters. So while this is a fairly good look at dopamine in general, i wouldn't take it all at face value because there's simply too much left out, IMHO. But lots of people just want to blame the genes they were given and take the "It's not my fault" path, so maybe this book is written for them. Bye for now. A lot of after the fact explanations that could be stretched to prove whatever the world turned up. Of course there is a lot of merit to this and it's solid science but this book stretches it to the point of horoscope level explanatory power. Show us prediction, not after the fact explanations on why Americans are awesome because they got all the adventure seeking genomes. Cherry picking examples aplenty here. Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfectly logical" to an addict? Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times--and so good at figuring them out? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas--and progress itself. Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more--more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it's why we gamble and squander. From dopamine's point of view, it's not the having that matters. It's getting something--anything--that's new. From this understanding--the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it--we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion - and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others. In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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