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.

凱·雷德菲爾德·傑米森是約翰·霍普金斯大學醫學院精神病學係教授及情緒性疾病中心主任，同時也是蘇格蘭聖安德魯大學的榮譽教授。曾當選加州大學洛杉磯分校的“科學女傑”。.

傑米森曾榮獲美國及全球諸多科學奬項，包括2001年獲選麥剋阿瑟奬，2002年獲選哈佛大學傑齣學者，2003年獲選牛津大學利奇菲爾德學者。傑米森同時名列全美最佳醫師之列，重點研究方嚮為躁鬱癥基因基礎。她也是戴納機構躁鬱癥基因基礎研究的臨床主任。..