Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love: What Neuroscience Can--and Can't--Tell Us About How We Feel

by Giovanni Frazzetto

Book Overview

"Neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto enters the restless realm of human emotion through the portals of physiology, genetics, history, art and philosophy. Anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy and love are anatomized in turn, enlivened with research on everything from the role of monoamine oxidase A in anger to the engagement of opioid receptors as we thrill to music. And who knew that surrealist Salvador Dali created an art installation in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143123092
• ISBN13: 9780143123095
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher