Your brain and your self : what you need to know /

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Main Author: Neirynck, Jacques
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Language:English
Published: Berlin : Springer, [2009]
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500 |a Originally published as: Tout savoir sur le cerveau et les dernières découvertes sur le Moi / Jacques Neirynck. Lausanne [Switzerland] : Editions Favre SA, 2006. 
500 |a Translated from French. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- 1. The controversial seat of myself -- The dualist fantasy -- Insanity and criminal responsibility -- Nervous diseases, or psychological diseases? -- Western medicine and Cartesianism -- The history of errors about the brain -- 2. A simple architecture of the brain -- The neuron -- The glial cell -- The fantasies of the neuron -- The structure of the nervous system -- The limbic system -- Reticular activating system -- Cortical areas -- The visual cortex -- The auditory cortex -- The motor cortex -- The prefrontal cortex -- The limits of functional localization -- The blood-brain barrier -- The development of the brain -- Apprenticeship -- Language -- Thought -- 3. Seeing through oneself : brain imaging -- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) -- Tomography : CT and PET -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- Research using imagery -- The brain as a black box -- Virtual reality -- 4. Dispersed memories -- Storage in neurons -- The generation of neurons in the canary -- The hippocampus of the London taxi driver -- Two diseases of memory -- 5. The prevention of Parkinson disease -- A problematical treatment -- The complications of therapy -- Non-pharmacological treatment -- Improving surgical precision -- Future perspectives -- 6. The treatment of Alzheimer disease -- The consequences of AD -- Today's treatments -- Research for new therapy -- 7. The cerebrovascular accident -- A typical stroke -- Classic therapy -- CVA and higher functions -- Prevention -- Hope from research -- Rehabilitation -- 8. The fatality of tumors -- Classification of tumors -- The search for treatment -- 9. Altered states of consciousness -- Neurology of the OBE -- Neurology of NDE -- Divergent opinions -- 10. The myth of the artificial brain -- The hesitant birth of the computer -- Two decisive inventions -- The two limits of von Neumann's computer -- Voice processing -- Practically insoluble mathematical problems -- Comparison between computer and brain -- Artificial neuronal networks -- Braitenberg's project : mechanical and evolutionary psychology -- The Blue Brain Project -- Bio-inspired computing -- Creation of consciousness -- The essential question -- Answers to the essential question -- Engineers and biologists afflicted with the Karl Marx syndrome -- 11. The power and the fragility of oneself -- The end of vitalism -- The trap of reductionism -- A model is not reality -- Existence of the mind -- Proof by placebo -- Opinions on free will -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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