How Brain Science May Change the Way We Live

How Brain Science May Change
the Way We Live

By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the November 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Cutting-edge neuroscience has escaped from the lab and is suddenly showing up everywhere, changing the way we practice law, go shopping, and even, possibly, fall in love.

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