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Dick Swaab shatters the basic tenets of philosophers, religious leaders, and political propagandists, proving that a person, his or her character, inclinations, and sexual orientation are formed in the womb under the influence of genes and the environment and cannot be forcibly changed, corrected, or cured later, and that "free will" is as nonsensical as faith. The only thing that controls a person is his or her brain. Tracing a human life from birth to death, Dick Swaab will try to answer difficult questions:

• Can a mother during pregnancy influence the future of her child through her own behaviour and habits, and can a child influence the course of childbirth?
• At what age can you notice sexually determined differences in the behaviour of boys and girls and what forms sexual orientation?
• What is teenage love and where does sex begin and end?
• Depression, obesity, insomnia, anorexia - are they brain diseases?
• Is cannabis safe and why are politics and drugs always close by?
• What is aggression and where do criminals come from?
• Why is sport murder and will the world be better without religion?

Dick Swaab is a world-renowned physician and neuroscientist who was the head of the Netherlands Brain Institute at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 2005, an honorary professor of neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, and a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, and is the author of more than 540 scientific articles and co-author of about 200 books. But none of them has caused such a flurry of controversy as the popular science book We Are Our Brain, published in 2010. In 2011, it became a scientific bestseller, ranking fourth in the Netherlands. Today, more than 300,000 copies of the book have been sold, and it has found its readers in many countries around the world.