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Molecules Of Emotion

  • 368 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1997
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system?

In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert - a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor - provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.

  • Medicine, Psychosomatic
  • Mind and body
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Mind-Body Relations
  • Mind and body therapies
  • Emotions
  • Neurochemistry
  • Psychophysiology

2 About Candace B. Pert

Born 1946

Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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