Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

Marc Lewis

PublicAffairs

2013

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781610392334

Marc 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.

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Entendendo vícios pela visão de um neurocientista

O livro me surpreendeu. Muito gostoso de ler, um relato de vida que nos faz pensar em nossos próprios vícios / hábitos. A visão de um pesquisador neurocientista ajuda a entender muitas coisas que muitas vezes avaliamos com preconceitos. Apesar do tema ser muitas vezes pesado e complicado de abordar, a leitura flui de uma forma leve.