Ramachandran, V. S.
Summary: Ramachandran -- the "Marco Polo of neuroscience"-- reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Among the topics he discusses are synesthesia as a window to creativity and autism as a springboard to understanding self-awareness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 616.8 Ramachandran 2011Ramachandran, V. S.
Summary: Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper/Perennial, Quill 1999