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The Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You by Candace B Pert

ISBN: 9780684846347 PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 368 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.02.1999 DIMENSIONS: 222mmX152mmX24mm 340grams

DESCRIPTION: Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book "Molecules of Emotion, " Candace Pert -- a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor -- provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.Her pioneering research on how the chemicals inside our bodies form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. By establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these new scientific developments in a clear and accessible way, Pert empowers us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies -- or bodyminds -- in ways we could never have imagined before. From explaining how there is a scientific basis to popular wisdom about phenomena such as 'gut feelings, ' to making recent breakthroughs in cancer and AIDS research comprehensible, Pert provides us with an intellectual adventure of the highest order.The journey Pert takes us on in "Molecules of Emotion" is one of personal as well as scientific discovery. Woven into her lucid explanations of the science underlying her work is the re

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