This book covers recent advances in the understanding of brain structure, function and disorders based on the fundamental principles of physics. It covers a broad range of physical phenomena occurring in the brain circuits for perception, cognition, emotion and action, representing the building blocks of the mind. It provides novel insights into the devastating brain disorders of the mind such as schizophrenia, dementia, autism, aging or addictions, as well as into the new devices for brain repair. The book is aimed at basic researchers in the fields of neuroscience, physics, biophysics and clinicians in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, psychiatry.
( 2000 ) have investigated structural brain changes in velo - cardio - facial syndrome . In most patients this results from a deletion of chromosome 22q11.2 . Ten to twenty per cent of patients developed a psychiatric illness by the ...
This book, like the first edition, represents the melding of two major themes in behavioral neurology the relationship of mind and brain, and the practical diagnosis of disorders of the...
A respected journalist explores the fields of science that try to explain the mysteries of the human mind, arguing that science has done little to plumb the depths of our minds and cannot ever rationally explain all of human behavior. 50 ...
The Myth of Neuropsychiatry: A Look at Paradoxes, Physics, and the Human Brain
How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?
Thinking on 20 watts -- The visible mind -- fMRI grows up -- Can fMRI read minds? -- How do brains change over time? -- Crimes and lies -- Decision neuroscience -- Is mental illness just a brain disease? -- The future of neuroimaging.
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This drawing is from Henry Gray's classic textbook The Anatomy of the Human Body (Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1918). Image in public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray739-emphasizing-hippocampus. png discovery: new ...
In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we ...