Circuit Breakers
How Neuroscientists Get Inside Your Head
$70.66
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2026
Summary
Neuroscientist Dr. Anna Chambers takes us inside a state-of-the-art brain research laboratory, showing us how scientists unpack the biological secrets that make headlines and save lives
In recent decades, neuroscience has revealed fascinating details about how the brain works in health and disease. But how do we know what we know?
In Circuit Breakers, Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Anna Chambers pulls back the curtain to show us what happens in the modern…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781419773587 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1419773585 |
| Author: | Anna Chambers |
| Publisher: | Abrams |
| Imprint: | Abrams Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Circuit Breakers invites readers into the laboratory to witness a golden age of brain science in action. With wit, clarity, and firsthand insight, Anna Chambers shows how neuroscientists study biology’s ultimate black box: an astonishingly sophisticated system still operating without an instruction manual. From glowing neurons and brain implants to sea slugs, bats, and the stubborn practicalities of studying a living brain inside a skull, this is a captivating guide to how modern science is getting inside our heads.” * Antonio Zadra, PhD, co-author of When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of our Dreaming Minds *
A deeply researched and compelling read, Circuit Breakers provides a window into the black box of the brain, translating the latest neuroscientific techniques into a story of success (and failure) and the hard graft of doing work that changes our world. Anna Chambers brings the lab to life with humor, poignancy, and pop culture–a beautifully written account of how real science really gets done. * Brandy Schillace, PhD, author of Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul *
Anna Chambers
Dr. Anna Chambers is a neuroscientist who conducts research on memory, sleep and hearing. She is an Instructor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a researcher in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital in Boston. She studied neuroscience as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins, received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 2015, and conducted postdoctoral fellowships in Germany and Norway. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two sons.
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