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Description: The focus of this book, Why Darkness Matters: The Power of Melanin In The Brain, is to acquaint the public with the reality and importance, both scientific and clinical, of melanin in the human brain and its wider implications for society, families, and science. This is area of study is both emotionally sensitive as well as socially complex. A quick scan of its table of contents gives a clear indication of its place in science today. The importance of variable surface skin melanin is well known along with how this plays itself out in society, culture and even in families around the dynamics of skin color, social positions, and power in society. No one denies this influence rightly or wrongly, in issues of ethnicity, in politics, economics and mass cultural imagery which none of us can escape. The seminal influence however of inner melanin, especially brain or neuromelanin, has been largely ignored. Yet its profound influence in the development of the human embryo, the organs systems, the nervous system of all the higher mammals and especially the higher human brain functions, is surprisingly under recognized. Skin melanin is significantly different in functioning and importance than inner brain and nervous system neuromelanin. Neuromelanin is much deeper, universal, and far beyond a simple 'racial' issue. The four authors of this book have set out to expand our understanding and bring the powerful and healing reality of universal neuromelanin in the brain into our public lives, taking us beyond superficial surface ethnic differences.

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The four authors are published in the area of melanin research. Bynum is a clinical psychologist, Brown is an anatomist, King is a psychiatrist and Moore is a physiological psychologist. T. Owens Moore, Ph.D., is a biomedical researcher, university professor, and an independent scholar with Zamani Press. He is a graduate of Lincoln University in PA, and he earned his doctorate in Physiological Psychology from Howard University. Dr. Moore is an internationally recognized lecturer, and he is a published author of several books and numerous scientific articles. Currently, he is a Full Professor in the Atlanta University Center, and he has served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA.

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