Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Livewired presents a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it continually adapts, re-creates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in.

The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of, but in the way those parts weave and  reweave themselves in a living electric fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric.

With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs information, developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the practices that make us who we are.

Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and presents new discoveries from his own research about the nature of synesthesia, about dreaming, and about wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. Livewired is deeply informative, accessible and engaging.