101 Theory Drive : A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory - Terry McDermott

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101 Theory Drive

A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory

By: Terry McDermott

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Paperback | 15 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience--the physical makeup of memory--and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist: malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, and consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuroscience, and his decades-long quest to understand the inner workings of the brain's memory machine has begun to pay off.
Award-winning journalist Terry McDermott spent nearly two years observing Lynch at work and now gives us a fascinating and dramatic account of daily life in his lab--the highs and lows, the drudgery and eureka moments, the agonizing failures. He provides detailed, lucid explanations of the cutting-edge science that enabled Lynch to reveal the inner workings of the molecular machine that manufactures memory. After establishing the building blocks, Lynch then set his sights on uncovering the complicated structure of memory as it is stored across many neurons. Adding practical significance to his groundbreaking work, Lynch discovered a class of drugs that could fix the memory machine when it breaks, drugs that would enhance brain function during the memory process and that hold out the possibility of cures for a wide range of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Here is an essential story of science, scientists, and scientific achievement--galvanizing in the telling and thrilling in its far-reaching implications.

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"Gets us a lot closer to the problem of how the brain records experience."--The Los Angeles Times

"Crisp prose. . . . a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and E.O. Wilson or Stephen Jay Gould."--Providence Journal

"A fascinating book."--Seattle Times

"[A] compelling ride. Look for it. Remember it."--The Oregonian

"A fascinating portrait of one brilliant, eccentric scientist and an insight into some of the groundbreaking science that seeks to explain memory."--San Francisco Book Review

"A fun read about some fascinating neuroscience, and, even more importantly, provides a rare look into how science is really done." --Leonard Mlodinow, author of The Drunkard's Walk

"This is an engrossing story of science and the brilliant, flawed people who make it."-- Publishers Weekly

"A stirring account of how important scientific research gets done."-- Kirkus

"Engrossing . . . a book about the truth, and the endless human struggle to find it."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide

"Thrilling . . . a story you won't forget." --David Eagleman, author of Sum

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The Talking Cure	p. 3
Seeing	p. 17
A Strange Damn Place	p. 36
A new and Specific Hypothesis	p. 66
Exile	p. 85
The History of Life on Earth	p. 94
Everything Falls Apart	p. 120
A Good Rain	p. 145
A Magic Potion	p. 155
Triumph and Disaster	p. 173
The Kids	p. 188
The Failure of Science	p. 214
"So we come to another one of those jump-off-the-cliff moments"	p. 244
Afterword	p. 262
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Glossary	p. 270
Selected Bibliography	p. 273
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