The Mind Machine

THE MIND MACHINE is a major thirteen-part BBC television series presented by Colin Blakemore, Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford. In this book, he explores the frontiers of our present state of knowledge about the human brain and mind. Understanding of this extraordinarily complex machine which governs every human thought and action has expanded rapidly in recent years as research on both sides of the Atlantic into the effects of brain injuries and mind-altering drugs, and the pioneering of remarkable techniques in the brain sciences, have brought about many startling new breakthroughs. The human brain, for all its one hundred thousand million nerve cells, will not remain an incomprehensible 'black box' for ever. Colin Blakemore has written a brilliant work of synthesis and explanation that draws on the work of neuroscient