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UNINA9910819037603321 |
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Titolo |
Brain and mind |
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Amsterdam : , : Excerpta Medica |
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New York : , : Elsevier/North-Holland, , 1979 |
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9786613694171 |
9781280783784 |
1280783788 |
9780470720523 |
0470720522 |
9780470718209 |
047071820X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 69 (new ser.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Brain |
Mind and body |
Neuropsychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Brain and Mind; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Challenges from the philosophers to the neuroscientists; Discussion The historical background; Consciousness and the brain: evolutionary aspects; The mind-body problem in an evolutionary perspective; Discussion Evolutionary aspects; Phonation, emotion, cognition, with reference to the brain mechanisms involved; Language: perspectives from another modality; Commentary on papers by Detlev Ploog and Ursula Bellugi; Discussion Language; Representation of reality in the perceptual world; Neuropsychological evidence for multiple memory systems |
Do philosophy and the brain sciences need each other? [Commentary]Discussion Perception and memory; The tasks of consciousness : how could the brain do them?; Neurophysiological mechanisms and consciousness; Three types of consciousness [Commentary]; Discussion Consciousness; Clinical, physiological and philosophical implications of |
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innovative brain surgery in humans; Outcome from severe neurological illness; should it influence medical decisions?; Experimental surgery, and predictions of outcome from severe neurological illness: legal and ethical implications [commentary] |
Discussion Experimental surgery and clinical neurology; Three phases of evil: the relation of injury to pain; The emotion of pain and its chemistry; Pain and the senses [Commentary]; Discussion Pain and mood; Schizophrenia: the nature of the psychological disturbance and its possible neurochemical basis; Communication and abnormal behaviour; Commentary on papers by Tim Crow and Sidney Crown; Discussion Psychosis and abnormal behaviour; Triunism : a transmaterial brain-mind theory; Discussion Triunism; The neuroscientist's summary; Chairman's closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world. |
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