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Brain and Mind.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam : New York :
Excerpta Medica ; Elsevier/North-Holland,
1979.
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| Colección: | Ciba Foundation symposium ;
new ser. 69. Novartis Foundation Symposia. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Brain and Mind; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Challenges from the philosophers to the neuroscientists; Discussion The historical background; Consciousness and the brain: evolutionary aspects; The mind-body problem in an evolutionary perspective; Discussion Evolutionary aspects; Phonation, emotion, cognition, with reference to the brain mechanisms involved; Language: perspectives from another modality; Commentary on papers by Detlev Ploog and Ursula Bellugi; Discussion Language; Representation of reality in the perceptual world; Neuropsychological evidence for multiple memory systems.
- Do philosophy and the brain sciences need each other? [Commentary]Discussion Perception and memory; The tasks of consciousness : how could the brain do them?; Neurophysiological mechanisms and consciousness; Three types of consciousness [Commentary]; Discussion Consciousness; Clinical, physiological and philosophical implications of innovative brain surgery in humans; Outcome from severe neurological illness; should it influence medical decisions?; Experimental surgery, and predictions of outcome from severe neurological illness: legal and ethical implications [commentary].
- Discussion Experimental surgery and clinical neurologyThree phases of evil: the relation of injury to pain; The emotion of pain and its chemistry; Pain and the senses [Commentary]; Discussion Pain and mood; Schizophrenia: the nature of the psychological disturbance and its possible neurochemical basis; Communication and abnormal behaviour; Commentary on papers by Tim Crow and Sidney Crown; Discussion Psychosis and abnormal behaviour; Triunism : a transmaterial brain-mind theory; Discussion Triunism; The neuroscientist's summary; Chairman's closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index.