Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs (The\addicted Brain Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- A neuroscientist's unique and fascinating journey into his own addiction--for readers of Oliver Sacks and Andrew SolomonMarc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin; he sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia; and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of desperation, deception, and crime.But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered to become a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781610391481
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781610391481, 9781610391474
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs
- Date of Addition:
- 04/19/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Marc Lewis
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Psychology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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