Description: "A book about your brain that should make you think--twice."--Alvin Toffler, New York" Times "bestselling author of Future Shock" "In his book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind, "Gary Small, one of America's leading neuroscientists, explores the remarkable evolution of the human brain caused by today's constant technological presence. Co-written with Gigi Vorgan, Dr. Small's iBrain "separates the digital natives from the digital immigrants, and suggests that the Internet--with its virtually limitless wealth of news and information--is radically altering the way young minds are developing and functioning. In this era of Google, Facebook, and YouTube, Gary Small's iBrain "is an essentially important guide to understanding the astonishing impact of this new brain evolution on our society and our future, as well as a warning of its potential dangers--ADD, social isolation, Internet addiction, etc.
Brief description:
Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the university's Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. He and Gigi Vorgan are the authors of iBrain, The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, and The Memory Bible.
Review Quotes:
"Could evolution have prepared our brains for the daily flood of data, images, and messages from digital technology? What will we as a species become, and what should we do about it? In iBrain, neuroscientist Gary Small, M.D., confronts these issues and provides a vision of how to evolve in the digital environment without losing the essence of what makes us human." - P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., Chief of the Division of Biological Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
"A valuable road map for the race to stay on track during the current evolution of the brain." - Terry Semel, CEO, Windsor Media; former CEO, Yahoo!
"Could evolution have prepared our brains for the daily flood of data, images, and messages from digital technology? What will we as a species become, and what should we do about it? In iBrain, neuroscientist Gary Small, M.D., confronts these issues and provides a vision of how to evolve in the digital environment without losing the essence of what makes us human." - Jerrold Rosenbaum, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
"A book about your brain that should make you think--twice." - Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock