Everyone is doing brain research. There is hardly a scientific discipline that refuses to “modernize” itself by adding “neuro” to its name. The offspring of this endeavor are neurotheology, neuroeconomics, neurolaw, and neuroaesthetics. Its victim is our world, which they try to present in categories from the field of brain research. Am I my brain? Or just a bioautomatic machine? This book questions the significance of neuroresearch. The author's thread of evidence leads to a postulate: the didactic aplomb of neuroscience is disproportionate to its actual cognitive ability; high-profile forecasts and theories balance on a very thin basis of reliable empirical data, and only the growing mass of freely interpreted results prevents them from collapsing. And the methods that modern medicine offers for the treatment of mental illness, in particular depressive disorders, are especially dangerous. Felix Hasler - Ph.D., pharmacologist, researcher at the School of Consciousness and Brain at the Humboldt University of Berlin, visiting researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Neuroscience them. Max Planck in Leipzig; formerly an employee of the psychiatric clinic at the University of Zurich.