Your Brain and Your Self What You Need to Know /

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...

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Main Authors: Neirynck, Jacques. (Author), Garey, Laurence. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography. 
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