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Your brain and your self : what you need to know

✍ Scribed by Jacques Neirynck, Laurence J. Garey

Publisher
Springer
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
118
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Based on numerous discussions with specialists, this book examines the relations of the brain with the mind, of humanity with the body. It is organized in chapters that can be read in continuity, but it is also possible to discover them in a different way.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Controversial Seat of Myself....Pages 3-15
A Simple Architecture of the Brain....Pages 17-33
Seeing Through Oneself: Brain Imaging....Pages 35-41
Dispersed Memories....Pages 43-47
The Prevention of Parkinson Disease....Pages 49-58
The Treatment of Alzheimer Disease....Pages 59-63
The Cerebrovascular Accident....Pages 65-71
The Fatality of Tumors....Pages 73-77
Altered States of Consciousness....Pages 79-83
The Myth of the Artificial Brain....Pages 85-103
The Power and the Fragility of Oneself....Pages 105-112
Back Matter....Pages 113-119

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences; Neurobiology; Behavioural Sciences

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