《我们时代的神经与精神疾病》内容简介
精神疾病是21世纪的流行病，全球精神疾病覆盖面已超10亿人。
比精神疾病本身更可怕的，是污名化、病耻感和歧视：精神疾病和未成年是犯罪的“免死金牌”？患上抑郁是因为不懂事？肥胖是自我放纵造成的？成瘾是坏人做出的坏行为？
大脑中有860亿个神经元通过非常精确的连接相互交流，但这些连接可能因损伤或疾病而改变，也可能在发育过程中无法正常形成，甚至根本无法形成。如果困扰人类的很多疾病与大脑硬件出问题有关，那许多污名化和歧视就站不住脚。
世界知名神经科学家、精神科医生兼诺奖得主，以短小精干的篇幅，综合当前学界的最新研究，阐明孤独症、抑郁症、双相障碍、精神分裂症、痴呆、阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病、亨廷顿病、焦虑症、创伤后应激障碍、精神病态行为、成瘾障碍等神经与精神疾病背后的生物学机制，解析究竟大脑出了什么状况？为什么出状况？我们该如何应对？
作者简介
著者：
埃里克·坎德尔（EricR.Kandel）1929年出生于奥地利维也纳，1952年毕业于哈佛大学历史与文学专业，1956年在纽约大学获得医学博士学位，曾长期担任美国哥伦比亚大学教授和霍华德·休斯医学研究所资深研究员，2022年荣休。他一生致力于神经科学的前沿研究，因在记忆存储的神经机制研究中做出重大贡献，于2000年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
译者：
喻柏雅，科普作者，作品见于《读库》《南方周末》《新京报》等；译有埃里克·坎德尔的系列作品《追寻记忆的痕迹》《为什么你看不懂抽象画？》《我们时代的神经与精神疾病》，其他译著包括《自私的人类》《友者生存》《不被定义的年龄》等。致力于提升中文读者的科学素养与批判性思维能力。
Neurologic and Mental Illness in Our Time
Mental illness is the epidemic of the 21st century, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.
More frightening than mental illness itself is stigma, stigma and discrimination: are mental illness and underage a "get out of jail free" for crime? Suffering from depression because of ignorance? Is obesity caused by self-indulgence? Addiction is bad behavior done by bad people?
The 86 billion neurons in the brain communicate with each other through very precise connections, but these connections can be altered by injury or disease, or they may not form properly during development, or even at all. If many of the diseases afflicting humans are linked to problems with the brain's hardware, then much of the stigma and discrimination is untenable.
World-renowned neuroscientist, psychiatrist and Nobel Prize winner, in a short and concise article, synthesizes the latest research in the current academic community, Elucidate the biological mechanisms behind neurological and psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychopathic behavior, addiction disorder, and so on. Why did it go wrong? How do we deal with this?
About the author
Author:
Eric Kandel (EricR.Kandel) was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, graduated from Harvard University in 1952, majored in history and literature, in 1956, received a doctor of Medicine degree from New York University, has long been a professor at Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, retired in 2022. He has devoted his life to cutting-edge research in neuroscience and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for his significant contributions to the study of the neural mechanisms of memory storage.
Translator:
Yu Baiya is a popular science writer whose works have appeared in Reading Library, Southern Weekend, Beijing News, etc. Eric Kandel's series "Trace of Memory" and "Why can't You Read Abstract Paintings?" His other books include The Selfish Human Being, The Survival of Friends, and The Age of the UnDefined. It is committed to improving the scientific literacy and critical thinking ability of Chinese readers.
