Neuromythology. What Do We Really Know About the Brain and What Do We Not Know About It

«Neuromythology» — an exemplary popular science study that aims to sort through the heap of various contemporary neuro works. This book seeks to answer the question: why have we started to scan the brain non-stop and what do we hope... to find there?

• Neurotheology, neuroeconomics, neuro law, neuroesthetics... what other disciplines have already emerged, and which ones are waiting for us in the coming years?
• The book aims to show that the didactic aplomb of the neurosciences is disproportionate to their actual cognitive ability; loud predictions and theories balance on a very thin foundation of reliable empirical data, and only the growing mass of freely interpreted results prevents them from collapsing.
• Why, even with all the modern brain research, can we still not recognize lies and identify psychopaths among ordinary people?