States of Mind: New Discoveries about How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are

States of Mind is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by the workings of our brains. Eight pioneering researchers present remarkable new insights about how our inner lives - both of the mind and of the body - are generated and regulated by the marvelous biology going on inside our heads. These preeminent scientists offer a new way of understanding ourselves - of peering into the workings of our brains in order to appreciate how our emotions and moods, our memories and dreams come about. They also reveal a new understanding of health and illness and how important the interconnections between our minds and bodies are.