With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz’s Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul.

凯·雷德菲尔德·杰米森是约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院精神病学系教授及情绪性疾病中心主任，同时也是苏格兰圣安德鲁大学的荣誉教授。曾当选加州大学洛杉矶分校的“科学女杰”。.

杰米森曾荣获美国及全球诸多科学奖项，包括2001年获选麦克阿瑟奖，2002年获选哈佛大学杰出学者，2003年获选牛津大学利奇菲尔德学者。杰米森同时名列全美最佳医师之列，重点研究方向为躁郁症基因基础。她也是戴纳机构躁郁症基因基础研究的临床主任。..