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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neirynck, Jacques
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Springer, [2009]
Subjects:
Brain > Physiology.
Brain.
Brain Diseases > pathology.
Brain > pathology.
Brain > physiology.
Mental Processes > physiology.
Bewusstsein > Gehirn > Gedächtnis.
Gedächtnis > Bewusstsein > Gehirn.
Gehirn > Bewusstsein > Gedächtnis.
Nervendegeneration > Therapie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.