Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

Informationen zum Autor Marc Lewis, PhD, is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology. Now at Radboud University in the Netherlands, he taught for more than twenty years at the University of Toronto. He has authored or coauthored more than fifty journal articles in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Presently, he speaks and blogs on topics in addiction science, and his critically acclaimed book, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs, is the first to blend memoir and science in addiction studies. Klappentext In this unique personal narrative, told with courage, candour and wit, a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs. "The most original and illuminating addiction memoir since Thomas De Quincey's seminal Confessions of an Opium Eater. . . An electrifying debut." -The Fix Zusammenfassung "The most original and illuminating addiction memoir since Thomas De Quincey's seminal Confessions of an Opium Eater. . . An electrifying debut." -The Fix

Vorwort
"The most original and illuminating addiction memoir since Thomas De Quincey's seminal Confessions of an Opium Eater. . . An electrifying debut." -The Fix

Autorentext

Dr. Marc Lewis is a developmental neuroscientist and professor of human development and applied psychology at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the author of over fifty journal publications in neuroscience and developmental psychology and coeditor of Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development.

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In this unique personal narrative, told with courage, candour and wit, a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs.