Brain and mind

• Record Nr.: UNISA996206966903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Excerpta Medica; New York : , : Elsevier/North-Holland, , 1979
• ISBN: 1-280-78378-8; 9786613694171; 0-470-72052-2; 0-470-71820-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 69 (new ser.)
• Disciplina: 152
• Soggetti: Brain; Mind and body; Neuropsychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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