Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry. She has written hundreds of articles and ten other books, including The Broken Brain, the first book to describe the importance of neurobiology to understanding mental illness. She lives in Iowa City and Santa Fe.

• PART I: BROKEN BRAINS AND TROUBLED MINDS ; 1. Brave New Brain: Confronting the Burden of Mental Illness ; 2. A Waking Nightmare: Mental Illness and Ordinary People ; 3. Broken Brains, Troubled Minds: Being Blinded by False Dichotomies ; PART II: MIND MEETS MOLECULE ; 4. The Brain: The Mind's Dynamic Orchestra ; 5. Mapping the Genome: The Blueprint of Life ... and Death ; 6. Mapping the Mind: Using Neuroimaging to Observe How the Brain Thinks ; PART III: THE BURDEN OF MENTAL ILLNESS ; 7. Understanding What Mental Illnesses Are: The Past is Prologue to Progress ; 8. Schizophrenia: A Mind Divided ; 9. Mood Disorders: Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster ; 10. Dementias: A Death in Life ; 11. Anxiety Disorders: The Stress Regulator Goes Wild ; PART IV: BRAVE NEW BRAIN ; 12. O Brave New World: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome ; References and Suggested Readings

Informative and well written, this volume is highly recommended to clinicians as well as consumers, interested in understanding the new brain science and its applications to psychiatry.

Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry. She has written hundreds of articles and ten other books, including The Broken Brain, the first book to describe the importance of neurobiology to understanding mental illness. She lives in Iowa City and Santa Fe.

• PART I: BROKEN BRAINS AND TROUBLED MINDS ; 1. Brave New Brain: Confronting the Burden of Mental Illness ; 2. A Waking Nightmare: Mental Illness and Ordinary People ; 3. Broken Brains, Troubled Minds: Being Blinded by False Dichotomies ; PART II: MIND MEETS MOLECULE ; 4. The Brain: The Mind's Dynamic Orchestra ; 5. Mapping the Genome: The Blueprint of Life ... and Death ; 6. Mapping the Mind: Using Neuroimaging to Observe How the Brain Thinks ; PART III: THE BURDEN OF MENTAL ILLNESS ; 7. Understanding What Mental Illnesses Are: The Past is Prologue to Progress ; 8. Schizophrenia: A Mind Divided ; 9. Mood Disorders: Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster ; 10. Dementias: A Death in Life ; 11. Anxiety Disorders: The Stress Regulator Goes Wild ; PART IV: BRAVE NEW BRAIN ; 12. O Brave New World: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome ; References and Suggested Readings

Informative and well written, this volume is highly recommended to clinicians as well as consumers, interested in understanding the new brain science and its applications to psychiatry.

Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry. She has written hundreds of articles and ten other books, including The Broken Brain, the first book to describe the importance of neurobiology to understanding mental illness. She lives in Iowa City and Santa Fe.

• PART I: BROKEN BRAINS AND TROUBLED MINDS ; 1. Brave New Brain: Confronting the Burden of Mental Illness ; 2. A Waking Nightmare: Mental Illness and Ordinary People ; 3. Broken Brains, Troubled Minds: Being Blinded by False Dichotomies ; PART II: MIND MEETS MOLECULE ; 4. The Brain: The Mind's Dynamic Orchestra ; 5. Mapping the Genome: The Blueprint of Life ... and Death ; 6. Mapping the Mind: Using Neuroimaging to Observe How the Brain Thinks ; PART III: THE BURDEN OF MENTAL ILLNESS ; 7. Understanding What Mental Illnesses Are: The Past is Prologue to Progress ; 8. Schizophrenia: A Mind Divided ; 9. Mood Disorders: Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster ; 10. Dementias: A Death in Life ; 11. Anxiety Disorders: The Stress Regulator Goes Wild ; PART IV: BRAVE NEW BRAIN ; 12. O Brave New World: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome ; References and Suggested Readings

Informative and well written, this volume is highly recommended to clinicians as well as consumers, interested in understanding the new brain science and its applications to psychiatry.