Linking the process of rational decision making to emotions, a scientist who has done extensive research with brain-damaged patients notes the dependence of thought processes on feelings and the body's survival-oriented regulators. Reprint.

Product Description: Neuroscience has paid only little attention to decision-making for many years. Although no field of science has cohered around this topic, a variety of researchers in different areas of neuroscience ranging from cellular physiology to neuropsychology and computational neuroscience have been engaged in working on this issue...read more

A new theory of consciousness and the construction of identity focuses on the body's reaction to its world, postulating that a complex relationship between body, emotion, and mind is required to configure the self. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Thirty-two essays deal the brain's development, reasoning, general intelligence, memory, learning, behavior, brain diseases, and mental disorders (view table of contents)

Product Description: Scientists are rapidly mapping the chemical and physical pathways that constitute biological systems, making the complexity of processes such as inheritance, development, evolution, and even the origin of life increasingly tractable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Scientists are rapidly mapping the chemical and physical pathways that constitute biological systems, making the complexity of processes such as inheritance, development, evolution, and even the origin of life increasingly tractable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author of the award-winning Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens traces the history of the scientific world's investigation into the relationship between human feelings, survival, and culture, citing the prevalent mysteries of the inner mind while exploring the neurobiological roots of emotions. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these values within various populations...read more