Following up his 1996 "The Emotional Brain, " the world-renowned brain expert presents a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, feel, imagine, act, and remember. In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's "The Emotional Brain" presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons-the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, "Synaptic Self" is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic.

如果意识——你所认为的自己——只是冰山露出水面的一角，那水下的部分又是什么？在这本才华横溢而又极富争议的《隐藏的自我：大脑的秘密生活》中，著名神经学家大卫伊格曼通过深入探索潜意识大脑，揭示了许多惊人的谜题：为什么在你意识到前方有危险之前，你的脚已经踩上了刹车々为什么谎言重复千遍就会成为真理？酒后吐真言是否可信？为什么有些人更容易发生婚外恋？为什么我们无法保守秘密？存在真正的自我吗？尤利西斯和次贷危机有何关系。

“我们是如何认识到我们已经认识到了？”“我们的意识和个人心灵是如何产生自我感的？”在这本人们殷切期待的菱中，令人尊敬的神经科学家安东尼奥·R.达马西奥将其多年对于神经病患者的研究和写作天赋奉献给了脑科学研究的最前沿领域——意识的奥秘，对意识产生的生理机制和意识对于生存的意义提出了新的理解。
在当前关于意识的观点发生剧烈分歧的时刎，达马两奥坚持认为，对我们是如何产生心理表象或者注意到这些表象进行解释，并不足以解释清楚这个奥秘。要对意识的产乍作出令人满意的假设必须要尝试对自我感是如何进入心灵的这一问题进行解释。
达马西奥认为，自我感并不依赖丁记忆或推理，甚至也不太依赖于语言。他论证说，自我感依赖丁在与客体建立联系的活动中脑对有机体进行描绘的能力。反过来，这种能力又是脑参与调节生命过程的一种结果。但在自我感产生之初，它还是另外一种装置，其目的旨在保证个体的生存。
在拜渎r达马两奥的那本罩程碑式的著作《笛卡尔的错误》一书后，乔纳斯·索尔克写道：“在观察你自己或另一个人时，对你所看到的事情背后所发生的一切，你将再也不会茫然无知。”
《感受发生的一切》带着你沿着同样的发现之路又向前迈进了一步，并且指出了“意识是如何成_为一把打开考察生命之谜的钥匙，是如何使我们的祖先获得了这种使我们成为人的体验”。

Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the uniquely human brain.V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Synesthesia becomes a window into the brain mechanisms that make some of us more creative than others. And autism—for which Ramachandran opens a new direction for treatment—gives us a glimpse of the aspect of being human that we understand least: self-awareness. Ramachandran tackles the most exciting and controversial topics in neurology with a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new approaches to age-old questions. Tracing the strange links between neurology and behavior, this book unveils a wealth of clues into the deepest mysteries of the human brain. 15 black-and-white illustrations