Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self - Couverture souple

Feinberg, M.D. Todd E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195152425 ISBN 13 : 9780195152425

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 2001

Synopsis

How does the brain, an organ composed of billions of individual cells, create the subjective sense of a unified self? And where is the self located in the brain? In Altered Egos Feinberg describes his search, from medical school through his career as a psychiatrist and neurologist, for answers to these questions. The result is an intriguing, surprising, and deeply probing book that explores the fundamental relationship between the self and the brain. |l Beginning with vignettes of patients who have neurological perturbations of the self, Feinberg gives an entertaining, insightful, and fresh account of how the human brain functions - and malfunctions - in people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. In doing so he presents a new theory of the self that links the workings of the brain with unique features of the mind, such as meaning, purpose and being. Feinberg argues that computers will never be conscious or have selves because the self and the mind are unique constituents of the life of the individual.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Todd E. Feinberg, M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Chief of the Betty and Morton Yarmon Division of Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195152425
• ISBN 13: 9780195152425
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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