Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs
$32.69
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2012
Summary
A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain.
Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis was a teenager in boarding school, experimenting with cough syrup and alcohol to assuage his depression. When he moved to Berkeley, California, the pulsing heart of the counter-cultural movement, he began using LSD and heroin. His spiralling journey of addiction event…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921844607 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921844604 |
| Author: | Marc Lewis |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 137mm x 210mm |
| Series: | The Addicted Brain |
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Marc Lewis
Dr. Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology. He currently teaches at Radboud University in the Netherlands, following over twenty years on faculty at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Lewis has authored or co-authored more than fifty journal articles in neuroscience and developmental psychology. He presently speaks and blogs on topics in addiction science. 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.
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