Your Brain and Your Self What You Need to Know /

• Main Authors: Neirynck, Jacques (Author), Garey, Laurence (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Behavioral Sciences.

How does my brain work? Why am I conscious? Where is my memory? Is what I perceive around me reality or just an illusion? We all ask these questions, which we could sum up in a single question: Who am I? How is it that I have memories and that I feel I exist? What does it mean that my mind is free i...

Table of 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.