| Description |
1 online resource (438 pages) |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ; 69 (new ser.) |
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Novartis Foundation Symposia ; v. 908 |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 69.
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Novartis Foundation Symposia
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| 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 |
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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] |
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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 |
| Notes |
Proceedings of the Symposium on Brain and Mind, held at Ciba Foundation, London, Dec. 5-7, 1978 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Brain -- Congresses
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Mind and body -- Congresses
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Neuropsychology -- Congresses
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Brain.
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Mind and body.
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Neuropsychology.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470718209 |
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047071820X |
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