Pictures of the Mind · What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (FT Press Science) by Boleyn-Fitzgerald, Miriam -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction PART I: Snapshots Chapter 1: Life, death, and the middle ground

Picturing awareness A rare mistake?

When hope is in vain

A spectrum of awareness A new class of consciousness Silent witness

Will to live Speaking without a voice

Weathering the storm Watching our minds watch themselves Retraining the traumatized mind Why go it alone? Healing brains, healing institutions

Chapter 3: Happiness on the brain

The asymmetrical brain Pleasure is nice, until it isn’t

Anatomy of a milkshake The brain of a bully

Happily ever after? Teaching happiness What counts as “smart”?

Chapter 4: Cooling the flame: pictures of addiction, chronic pain, and recovery

Weak character or treatable brain condition? Your brain on drugs Your brain on pain Mind control

PART II: Landscape Chapter 5: Where does morality live, and when is it home?

Right or wrong, up close and personal Young brains, old choices Prevention versus punishment Watching our judgments Wired for selflessness

Chapter 6: The making and breaking of memories

Holding onto history The dark network sheds light Exercise the body, exercise the brain Therapeutic forgetting

Chapter 7: Where am “I”? Experiences of self, other, and neither

Decentralized self Of two minds? No separate self No self at all Beyond self-concept Paying attention

Attention to the breath Open awareness Compassion and loving-kindness

Think “human” Our curious identity

Resources Notes Acknowledgments About the Author Index