Brainwashed

Author: Sally Satel
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0465018777
Category: Medical

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRIAfunctional magnetic resonance imagingAwas introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. Download Brainwashed medical books for free.
But although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided groundbreaking insights into the workings of the human brain, the increasingly fashionable idea that they are the most important means of answering the enduring mysteries of psychology is misguidedAand potentially dangerous.

In Brainwashed, psychiatrist and AEI scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld reveal how many of the Get Brainwashed our bestseller medical books.

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But although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided groundbreaking insights into the workings of the human brain, the increasingly fashionable idea that they are the most important means of answering the enduring mysteries of psychology is misguidedAand potentially dangerous Lilienfeld reveal how many of the

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