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
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Animal behavior.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Behavioural Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87523-9

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:

• 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.