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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Essex, Connecticut :
Prometheus Books,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
