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In this ground-breaking tour of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist uses the stories of his patients to explore the origins of human emotion.Since the dawn of humankind, mental illness has been one of our greatest causes of suffering as a species. But for the majority of our history, its causes have remained a mystery. Now, science has reached a tipping point. In Projections, Professor Karl Deisseroth - whose breakthrough discovery, Optogenetics, allows us to decipher the brain's inner workings using light - reveals what mental illnesses really are, why we suffer from them, and the unexpected role they have played in our evolution.With moving and revelatory stories from both personal and professional experience, Deisseroth takes us on a dazzling journey through the depths of emotion, illuminating the roots of depression and schizophrenia, the causes of sociopathy and autism, and the sometimes counter-intuitively positive effects disorders such as mania have had on human survival. With a novelist's flair and nuance he sheds new light on much misunderstood diseases and conditions like dementia and psychosis, and shows us just what is at stake in his psychiatric practice - the collapse of the self.Answering some of the most timeless questions about the human condition - why do we feel what we feel? How do we define 'sanity'? Can a lost mind be found again? - Projections transforms the way we understand the brain, and our very selves.