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18 de ago. de 1999 · Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.
19 de ago. de 1998 · The most basic questions about the human mind are still mysteries to us - How do we recognize faces? Why do we cry? Why do we laugh? Why do we dream? Why do we enjoy music and art? and the really big question: What is consciousness? And more generally, how does the activity of tiny wisps of protoplasm in the brain lead to conscious experience?
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (also published as Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind) [1] is a 1998 popular science book by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran and New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee, discussing neurophysiology and neuropsychology as revealed by case ...
A distinguished neurologist and an award-winning science writer explore the vast complexities of the human brain and how it works, drawing on real-life case studies of patients suffering from unusual neurological afflictions to explain what occurs in the brain and the sources of dreams, memory, emotion, language, and more. 125,000 first printing.
In Phantoms in the Brain, 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 ...
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind : Ramachandran, V. S., Blakeslee, Sandra: Amazon.es: Libros
Dr. Ramachandran has found that the human brain has a tremendous need to create a unified belief system-a script that helps us make sense of our lives. When new evidence threatens the "storyline," the left hemisphere resorts to denial and confabulation.
