After losing his dad, a neuroscientist goes on a journey of discovery into where our emotions come from, what purpose they serve, and why they make us feel the way they do. This comment made me more angry than anything else in this book and took my rating from a two-star to a one-star.

To unravel the larger complexity of emotions, it is necessary to examine specific instances of distinct and recognisable emotional manifestations and expressions. The more aware we are of our emotions, the more we can moderate and control their effects and influence on ourselves. The author’s previous work has been full of his dry sense of humour and whilst that is present here (frequently in the footnotes) what really brings this book to life is how much of himself he puts into it. Aside from the detailed anatomy, the rest of the information is very general, more of his musings than fact, and deludes into social diatribes by the end of the book.Dean uses his recent experience to describe his own profound emotions and thoughts and also references his much loved family.

Social media gives everyone a platform to express themselves and share moments with those dear to us. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Emotions' chemical reactions happen so fast in our brains that even current technology fails to accurately detect them.With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. I’ve read all of Dean’s books so whilst the situation he wrote this one in (the death of his father from covid) was different, I felt like a lot of the info he’d already told me in another book. allowing themselves to communicate more freely through expressions of their emotion, like public crying. Soms gebruikte hij bijvoorbeeld allerlei namen van verschillende gebieden in de hersenen, wat naar mijn idee vaak overbodig was en dus niet perse nodig. the author could not make up his mind whether to address teenagers who are sifting through their emotions, or adults with an enquiring mind.

For those who are interested in emotion, there's absolutely nothing new or presented in a unique way.Take some time out with this brilliant book to acknowledge that without emotions we wouldn’t be able to grieve, regret, celebrate or love – or to put it simply – be wonderfully human ― Stylist --This text refers to the paperback edition. Neuroscientist Dean Burnett's father died of Covid early in the UK pandemic, an event which, unsurprisingly, affected his son deeply. It is not the author‘s fault that a confessional tone does not appeal to me, but surely it is not too much to ask, even of a scientist, that s/he should master the construction of unreal sentences and spare us a string of misplaced „likes“?