The Scientific American Brave New Brain: How Neuroscience, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Epigenetics, the Internet, and Our Own Minds are Stimulating and Enhancing the Fu

This fascinating and highly accessible book presents fantastic but totally feasible projections of what your brain may be capable of in the near future. It shows how scientific breakthroughs and amazing research are turning science fiction into science fact. In this brave new book, you'll explore:How partnerships between biological sciences and technology are helping the deaf hear, the blind see, and the paralyzed communicate.How our brains can repair and improve themselves, erase traumatic memoriesHow we can stay mentally alert longer—and how we may be able to halt or even reverse AlzheimersHow we can control technology with brain waves, including prosthetic devices, machinery, computers—and even spaceships or clones.Insights into how science may cure fatal diseases, and improve our intellectual and physical productivity

Judith Horstman presents a highly informative and entertaining look at the future of your brain, based on articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind magazines, and the work of today’s visionary neuroscientists.

Top Seven Predictions for the Future of the Brain -exclusive content from author Judith Horstman 1) Wi-Fi Everything Microchips in or on your brain will enhance memory, store data, and connect wirelessly to the internet, eliminating your cell phone and allowing you to control machines or even clones via mental wi-fi.See Chapter 7: Your Bionic Brain. 2) Cures for Dementia Advances in neuroscience and bioengineering will render Alzheimer's, some brain damage, depression and perhaps even mental retardation largely preventable, curable and possibly reversible for many. See Chapter 3: Manipulating Your Memory. 3) Better Brain Power Neuroenhancers - from smart pills to implants and devices––will improve thinking, enhance creativity, relieve depression, erase traumatic memories and boost mental endurance. See Chapter 2: Boosting Your Brain Power. 4) Bionic Brain Parts Merging humans and machines with bionic or biological spare parts that already restore hearing and give sight to the blind could restore movement and speech to the paralyzed––and give super powers to the healthy. See Chapter 7: Your Bionic Brain. 5) Mind-Reading Brain Scans Neuroimaging that now "reads" brains to detect disease will be able to accurately detect deception, antisocial tendencies, dangerous inclinations, your preference in sexual partners--and possibly predict your behavior. See Chapter 5: Looking Inside Your Brain. 6) Less Brain Surgery Nanotechnology – the science of small – will be used to float drugs, chemicals and minuscule surgical instruments into your brain to treat tumors, clots and other traumas, and defective genes and cells will be able to be replaced. See Chapter 8: The Possible Dreams. 7) An Ethical Avalanche The moral, legal and economic fallout from this amazing new technology will keep lawyers, lawmakers and the courts busy for decades dealing with issues of privacy, fairness, civil rights and even what it means to be human. See Chapter 9: Neuroethics; Facing the Dark Side. Judith Horstman is the author of The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain, the first book in this series of titles copublished with Scientific American. She's an award-winning science journalist and author whose work has appeared in USA Today and numerous other newspapers and magazines; in publications by Har

出版社	Jossey-Bass
作者	Judith Horstman