Proust was a neuroscientist

This chapter considers how photography emerges as an incomplete, iterative form of portraiture against an elusive subject. It looks specifically at Marcel Proust’s definition of mo...

Using the example of Marcel Proust's character Albertine, this book argues that the trope of the disappeared woman stems from the male narrator's inability see beyond his own proje...

Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancien...

Fear is one of the oldest survival tools in the human brain---in today's world, it's everywhere and shapes how we live, think, and connect.Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Arash Jav...

A captivating and trailblazing look at how dreams serve as one of our most powerful ways to understand—and radically change—our world.A small, intimate gift book with 26 charming w...

An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behavior is biologically predisposed rather than learned. Why do newborns show a...

Abstract Seeing Depression through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the effects...

This article reviews some important recent contributions to the belated recovery of the work of English novelist and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner. Described by Eleanor Perényi as “f...