Neuromythology. What We Really Know About the Brain and What We Don't Know About It

Everyone studies the brain. It’s hard to find a scientific discipline that wouldn’t want to “modernize” itself by adding “neuro” to its name. The offspring of this trend—neurotheology, neuroeconomics, neurolaw, and neuroaesthetics. Its victim is our world, which is trying to be presented in categories from the field of brain research.

Am I my brain? Or just a bio-automaton?

This audiobook challenges the significance of neuroresearch. The author’s line of evidence leads to the thesis that the didactic swagger of the neurosciences is disproportionate to their actual cognitive capacity; loud forecasts and theories rest on a very thin base of reliable empirical data, and only the ever-growing mass of freely interpreted results prevents them from collapsing.

And especially dangerous are the methods that modern medicine offers for treating mental illnesses—particularly depressive disorders.

Felix Hasler, PhD, a pharmacologist and researcher at the School of Consciousness and Brain at Humboldt University in Berlin, and a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences in Leipzig; in the past—an employee of the psychiatric clinic at the University of Zurich.