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Brain and Mind.
Title:
Brain and Mind.
Author:
Symposium, CIBA Foundation.
ISBN:
9780470718209
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (438 pages)
Series:
Novartis Foundation Symposia ; v.908

Novartis Foundation Symposia
Contents:
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.
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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.
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