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Fotografie: From her website (http://animalmadness.com/about/)
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- MIT PhD in the history of science, Laurel Braitman has written for Pop-UP Magazine, The New Inquiry, Orion, and other publications. Laurel is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California. [from Animal Madness, 2014]
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As an example, the author visits with physician Phil Weinstein professor of neurosurgery and the president emeritus of the Society of Neurological Surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco. The main thing that we learn is that the underlying brain structures responsible for both animal and human emotion are very similar, which the reader who has much interest in animal behavior and emotion probably already knows. Professor Weinstein has a dog with canine Alzheimer's, which has different underlying causes than the human variety, given a dog's shorter lifespan, and extreme OCD in humans (but not other animals, thus far) can be controlled by selectively destroying certain brain cells. Interesting, but I'm sure there is much more that we could have learned.
I'd consider this much at least, as more suited to readers who want a basic introduction to the subject. Maybe it gets better, but I'm just not engaged, and at my age, I'm sticking to books that engage me from the beginning. I don't need convincing that we share a lot mental states with animals - my pets did that, particularly the one that my friends called "the little man in the dog suit."
My tolerance for chatty books diminished sharply after reading a books In which authors go off on tangents, like describing the purchase of a perfectly ordinary cup of coffee in a coffee shop (a highlight of Brazil) or talking about the typical hotel (including the room number) that they stayed in ten years ago, or pages of a pointless argument or the meaning of pictographs (with no illustration) with patient hosts (it's A, no it's B, No it's A . . .) , in popular science books.
So, I guess it comes down to a matter of taste and interests.… (meer)