Brain in a vat

[robinturner]

Just been reading some amusing stuff, The Geek's Guide to Practical Brain Chemistry. Some of it was ill-informed or oversimplified (as various posted comments pointed out), but interesting all the time. I'm thinking of referring students on my "happiness" course to it, partly because a lot of them know virtually nothing about brains, partly because it's a good example ofhow a paper can be criticised.

Now I've got to get some chocolate and boost my anandamides. Is that the kind of pop psychopharmacology posters were criticising, I wonder? And does "anandamide" come from Sanskrit ananda?