Horror on the brain the neuroscience behind science fiction
"In this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology's most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched that science to the edge"--
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Prometheus Books,
[2025]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lim, Austin, |d 1985- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Horror on the brain : |b the neuroscience behind science fiction / |c Austin Lim, PhD. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Essex, Connecticut : |b Prometheus Books, |c [2025] | |
| 300 | |a xii, 314 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The oldest and strongest emotion : neural substrates of fear -- "The spark of being" : life, death, and reanimation -- Peering through the wall of sleep : the secrets of slumber -- "Happiness is knowing you got some pills" : food, drugs, and other things that make us happy -- The Bene Gesserit's test : the story of pain -- Remember to forget : memory and amnesia -- "Born after the silence" : language and our two brains -- "Believe only half of what you see" : illusions and delusions -- No longer Dr. Jekyll : the changing nature of personality -- "Are we not men?" : who is an us and who is a them -- Dial 56 to smell burnt toast : what brain stimulation tells us about free will -- Closing comments. | |
| 520 | |a "In this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology's most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched that science to the edge"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Neurosciences. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Neurosciences in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Neurosciences in popular culture. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Science fiction |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Horror tales |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literature and science. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Lim, Austin, 1985- |t Horror on the brain |d Essex, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2025] |z 9781493084791 |w (DLC) 2024043957 |
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