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V. S. Ramachandran

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Harpercollins Reference

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Synesthesia becomes a window into the brain mechanisms that make some of us more creative than others. And autism--for which Ramachandran opens a new direction for treatment--gives us a glimpse of the aspect of being human that we understand least: self-awareness. Ramachandran tackles the most exciting and controversial topics in neurology with a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new approaches to age-old questions. Tracing the strange links between neurology and behavior, this book unveils a wealth of clues into the deepest mysteries of the human brain.

The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature

Cornerstone

Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. 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 construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases:
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<li>A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. </li>
<li>A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience?</li>
<li> A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time.</li>
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Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

Sandra Blakeslee

Self-Help

William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. 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 construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases:
<ul>
<li>A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial.</li>
<li> A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience?</li>
<li> A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time.</li>
</ul>
Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Mariner Books

If you are not a science person but want to learn about brain, then this is it. This book deals with such things as phantom limbs (superficial limbs felt by patients who got them amputated) and more. The cases Ramachandran talks about is astonishing and amazing and I hope it to be a wonderful read.

Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind

Medical Books

Fourth Estate

'Phantoms in The Brain' takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world's leading experimental neurologists. 'Phantoms in The Brain', using a series of case histories, introduces strange and unexplored mental worlds. Ramachandran, through his research into brain damage, has discovered that the brain is continually organising itself in response to change. A woman maintains that her left arm is not paralysed, a young man loses his right arm in a motorcycle accident, yet he continues to feel a phantom arm with vivid sensation of movement. In a series of experiments using nothing more than Q-tips and dribbles of warm water the young man helped Ramachandran discover how the brain is remapped after injury. Ramachandran believes that cases such as these illustrate fundamental principles of how the human brain operates. The brain 'needs to create a "script" or a story to make sense of the world, a unified and internally consistent belief system'. Ramachandran's radical new approach will have far-reaching effects.

Phantoms in the Brain : Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind

Basic Sciences

Harpercollins Pb

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind [Japanese Edition]

KADOKAWA

Fantasmas No Cérebro (Em Portuguese do Brasil)

RECORD - GRUPO RECORD

O Que O Cerebro Tem Para Contar (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Zahar

The steel wire drawing industry boasts of one lakh uses of wire in our daily life. There are very few books on steel wire, Such as, Wire by Anton Pomp which is now out of print; Galvanizing by Henrik Bablik which also shares the same fate, and Steel wire hand books, published by Wire Association International Inc., USA. All the above mentioned books have a thread in common and i.e., they are mainly theoretical and eminently useful in understanding the mechanism and intricacies of wire drawing and other aspects related to it. This book is not written in the conventional form having chapters giving details of a particular subject in each chapter. The same system of compiling notes is followed — viz., arranging topics in an alphabetical order where one can pick up details on any topic — as in the case of a dictionary. The change in format however, does not diminish the scope of covering all aspects of wire industry.

Steel Wire Drawing in Practice

ABPL

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