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Author Neirynck, Jacques.

Title Your brain and your self : what you need to know / Jacques Neirynck ; translated by Laurence Garey
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 119 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Controversial Seat of Myself; A Simple Architecture of the Brain; Seeing Through Oneself: Brain Imaging; Dispersed Memories; The Prevention of Parkinson Disease; The Treatment of Alzheimer Disease; The Cerebrovascular Accident; The Fatality of Tumors; Altered States of Consciousness; The Myth of the Artificial Brain; The Power and the Fragility of Oneself
Summary How does my brain work? Why am I conscious? Where is my memory? Is what I perceive around me reality or just an illusion? Could my whole being eclipse because of a disease in which my body survives but my mind ceases to exist? This book addresses such questions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index
Notes English
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Subject Brain.
Brain -- Physiology
Central nervous system.
Medical personnel.
Physical sciences.
Nervous system.
Nervous system -- Diseases.
Diseases.
Anatomy.
Physiology.
Brain -- Diseases.
Human information processing.
Central nervous system -- Diseases.
Life sciences.
Central Nervous System
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Health Occupations
Natural Science Disciplines
Psychiatry and Psychology
Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Disciplines and Occupations
Disease
Anatomy
Physiology
Brain Diseases
Brain
Mental Processes
Pathology
Brain -- pathology
Central Nervous System Diseases
Brain -- physiology
Medicine
Biological Science Disciplines
Health Personnel
Health Workforce
Animal Structures
Brain Diseases -- pathology
Mental Processes -- physiology
brains.
physical sciences.
disease.
illness.
anatomy.
physiology.
biological sciences.
MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
Brain.
Brain -- Physiology.
Brain -- pathology.
Brain Diseases -- pathology.
Mental Processes -- physiology.
Sciences de la vie.
Biomédecine.
Physiology
Physical sciences
Nervous system -- Diseases
Nervous system
Medical personnel
Life sciences
Human information processing
Diseases
Central nervous system -- Diseases
Central nervous system
Brain -- Diseases
Anatomy
Brain
Brain -- Physiology
Gehirn -- Bewusstsein -- Gedächtnis.
Bewusstsein -- Gehirn -- Gedächtnis.
Gedächtnis -- Bewusstsein -- Gehirn.
Nervendegeneration -- Therapie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783540875239
3540875239
3540875220
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9783540875222
9783540875383
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9781281831200
9786611831202
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Other Titles Tout savoir sur le cerveau et les dernières découvertes sur le Moi. English