LONE FRANK has a PhD in neurobiology and worked as a research scientist in Denmark and the United States before deciding in 1997 to become a full-time science writer. Today she is Denmark’s most distinguished science writer and a well-known voice in debates about science, technology and society. She writes for the pre-eminent Danish newspaper, the weekly Weekendavisen, as well as for publications outside her native country such as Science, Nature and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is widely invited as a speaker and regularly appears on Danish radio and television. As well as co-producing a series of television programmes on science for the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation, DR, she has written three books, THE NEW LIFE (Gyldendal, 2004), CLONED TIGERS (Gyldendal, 2005) and MINDFIELD (published as TRANSPARENT SOULS by Gyldendal in 2007), all of which have been bestsellers in Denmark and won critical acclaim.

 

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MINDFIELD
How Brain Science is Changing Our World

A fascinating exploration of the most intriguing brain experiments so far this century… Her argument that our brains are far more malleable than we thought has a real resonance [and] her hesitant participation in experiments… along with brutally honest descriptions of the experts add a welcome dose of humour – NEW SCIENTIST

Think that you know yourself? Think again. The coming Neurorevolution will destroy your certainties – but maybe set you free. Arm yourself. Read this book – Armand Leroi, author of MUTANTS and Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London

Riveting. Lone Frank has selected the most intriguing issues currently engaging scientists and philosophers, and presented them in a way that will engage anyone who possesses the organ she writes about – Rita Carter, author of MAPPING THE MIND and MULTIPLICITY

Does a great job of exploring the impending neurorevolution and sometimes scary consequences of neuro-technology – Professor Susan Blackmore, BBC FOCUS magazine

From religious experience, moral sense and personal choice to subliminal advertising, lie-detection and self-control, the brain has become the focal point for all questions about human nature. Modern neuroscience is now going to the heart of what it means to be human, and beginning to have important social and political repercussions, forcing us to think afresh about who we really are, why we behave as we do and where we are going.

MINDFIELD is the first book to document this coming age of ‘neurocentrism’. In it the award-winning science writer Lone Frank surveys how brain researchers are dissecting everything that makes us human and anchoring all sorts of phenomena we have previously considered incorporeal in soggy biology. She explores the influence these neuroscientific findings are having on society, reveals how this in turn is changing both the structure and the function of our brains, and speculates on what this cognitive revolution means for us all.

Interlacing fascinating accounts of the latest findings with witty and irreverent interviews with leading researchers in their laboratories, MINDFIELD is an exemplary work of popularization that provides nothing short of a comprehensive survey of the frontiers of modern neuroscience.

Publisher: Oneworld (UK/US)
Pub date: 1 April 2009
Length: 320 pages

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