Sandra Blakeslee V. S. Ramachandra Phantoms in the Brai (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Phantoms in the BrainCondition: NewEAN: 9781857028959ISBN: 9781857028959Publisher: 4th EstateFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/06/1999Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 250gAuthor: Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. RamachandranContributor: Dr. Oliver Sacks (Foreword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Human Nature and the Architecture of the MindDescription: ‘Phantoms in The Brain’ takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world’s leading experimental neurologists. ‘Phantoms in The Brain’, using a series of case histories, introduces strange and unexplored mental worlds. Ramachandran, through his research into brain damage, has discovered that the brain is continually organising itself in response to change. A woman maintains that her left arm is not paralysed, a young man loses his right arm in a motorcycle accident, yet he continues to feel a phantom arm with vivid sensation of movement. In a series of experiments using nothing more than Q-tips and dribbles of warm water the young man helped Ramachandran discover how the brain is remapped after injury. Ramachandran believes that cases such as these illustrate fundamental principles of how the human brain operates. The brain ‘needs to create a “script” or a story to make sense of the world, a unified and internally consistent belief system’. Ramachandran’s radical new approach will have far-reaching effects.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Medicine, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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