Brain and Mind.
by
Symposium, CIBA Foundation.
Title
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Brain and Mind.
Author
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Symposium, CIBA Foundation.
ISBN
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9780470718209
Personal Author
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Symposium, CIBA Foundation.
Edition
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1st ed.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (438 pages)
Series
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Novartis Foundation Symposia ; v.908
Novartis Foundation Symposia
Contents
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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 neurology -- Three 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.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Brain -- Congresses.
Mind and body -- Congresses.
Neuropsychology -- Congresses.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
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Lastciba Foundation Symposium,.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1228822-1001 | QP376 -- .S878 1978 EB | Ebrary E-Books |