YOU AND ME: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF IDENTITY
Book ID/图书代码： 09814715B85716
English Summary/英文概要： Identity is a term much used yet hard to define. Perhaps for this reason, the concept has long been a favourite with philosphers, and for the very same reason has been avoided by brain scientists, - until now. In this neurobiological exploration of identity, Greenfield briefly reviews the social perspective from finger prints, to faces, to signatures of the many ways we try to identity ourselves, - in vain. The psychiatric perspective however does offer some valuable clues that then leads to an excursion into the physical brain: the neuroscience perspective. But identity cannot just be an objective phenomenon: hence any pertinent brain phenomena have to be seen also, as they are in the follwing chapter, from an individual perspective. Armed with the insights gained from these diverse approaches, Greenfield attempts to conceive of actual scenarios in the physical brain that would correspond to familiar examples of identity. However, given the physical brain adapts exquisitely to the environemnt, and the 21st Century environment is changing in unprecedented ways, are we facing correspondingly unprecedented changes to our identity?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 身份是一个一直被使用，但很难定义的术语。也许因为这个原因，这个概念一直深受哲学家们喜爱，但却是脑科学家们望而却步的——但现在不再是这样了。本书从神经生物学的角度探索身份这个概念，Greenfield简要从社会学的角度回顾了我们期望从指纹、面向、签名等等形式上寻找自我的身份，但却徒劳无功。精神医学的观点提供了一些有价值的线索，推进了人类探索大脑本身的进程，这也就是神经心理学。但身份不仅仅是一个客观的现象，因此任何的脑现象都必须得从个体角度进行观察。通过这些不同角度的见解，Greenfield试图还原大脑对于熟悉的身份的回应。然而，因为我们的大脑也会随着环境的变化而改变，而21世纪的环境确实是向着前所未有的方式改变了，我们是否也需要去应对我们身份的改变呢？（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：诺丁山版的书都可谓无比华丽的小小礼品。本书出自Greenfield教授的《ID: The Quest for Identity》，但对于读书很慢的人，比如我，来说已经足够了。2011年的版本中还用红黑两色印制，真是个好主意。这本书在任何人的书架上都是无比好看的。
Notting Hill Editions is a quixotic enterprise producing gorgeous-looking little (very little) giftbooks. This is a spinoff from Professor Greenfield’s ID: The Quest for Identity, but it’s big enough for a slow reader like me, and back in 2011 NHB were still using red ink as well as black - nice touch! Will look good on anyone’s shelf
About the Author/作者介绍： Greenfield女爵士1996年以来是牛津大学突触药理学教授，领导一个跨学科的研究组。她也是Institute for the Future of the Mind学院的董事。2000年，她被授予CBE荣誉，2001年获得贵族称号。Susan已发表一些为学者和普通读者撰写的书籍以传播科学道理，探索的主题包括意识和人性的本质。她最新的一本书《ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century》通过借鉴神经科学的最新研究结果，探索了在一个快速变化的世界中作为人的意义，着眼于我们如何促进自我个性的发展。
Baroness Greenfield has been Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology since 1996 at Oxford where she continues to head a multi-disciplinary research group. She is also Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind. She was awarded a CBE in 2000 and granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001. Susan has written a number of books disseminating science to academic as well as non-academic sectors, exploring topics including the basis of consciousness and human nature. Her latest book, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, is an exploration of what it means to be human in a world of rapid change and, by drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, looks at how we can promote our own individuality.
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