Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel » (Abridged)

Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.,is Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she also conducts AIDS research. She was featured in Bill Moyers's book and PBS series Healing and the Mind, and lectures extensively throughout the country.

Deepak Chopra has gained worldwide acclaim as a teacher and writer in fields as diverse as mind-body medicine, Ayurveda, the nature of God, and the path to success. Time magazine called him one of the one hundred icons of the twentieth century, "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." The author of more than thirty-five books and one hundred audio, video, and CD-ROM titles, Dr. Chopra has been published on every continent in dozens of languages. More than twenty million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He is the founder of the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.

In this groundbreaking audiobook, Candace Pert -- a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor -- provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.

From explaining the scientific basis of popular wisdom about phenomena like "gut feelings" to making comprehensible recent discoveries in cancer and AIDS research, Molecules of Emotion is an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Yet the journey Pert takes us on is one of personal as well as scientific discovery. Woven into her lucid explanations of the science underlying her work is the remarkable story of how -- faced with personal and professional...

Smithsonian - Paul Trachtman

. . .Pert offers a clear and often riveting account of her research. . .She also [offers] a rare glimpse of the ruthless competition for prizes and money that sometimes obscures the pursuit of truth. . .There are enough new facts. . .to astonish. . .many readers. . . .Much of what Pert has to say is solidly grounded in new research, but she's on shakier ground in her occasional embrace of pop psychology and mysticism.