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Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains

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Publisher
Routledge (Psychology Press)
Year
2018
ISBN
2017054793, 2017059049, 9781351060752, 9781138481190, 9781138481237
Language
english
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PDF
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8 MB (8265057 bytes)
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\287
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2021-06-26 19:34:08

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Cover Half title Title page Copyright page Table of contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 The evolution of all things 2 Tools: tacit and tactual symbols of civilisation 3 Art, graffiti, juvenilia or Kilroy? 4 Language: what tales the tongue may tell 5 The child is father to the man 6 The Old Forge and my first school 7 Secondary school early awakenings, or where the whore moans, there moan I 8 Dreaming spires, Oxford days, et in arcadia ego 9 Sticking up like a sore thumb: hitch-hiking 10 An industrious interlude and industrial interval: ICI 11 An ugly picture in a beautiful frame 12 The Golden Road, or a shot in the dark 13 Eyes, a window to your thoughts 14 Aotearoa: a year in the land of the long white cloud 15 Terra Australis (nobis adhuc) incognita 16 Commissural connectivity 17 Harry McGurk, read my lips: ventriloquism 18 Mirror, mirror on the wall: symmetrical stimuli and bimanual responses 19 Consciousness, will and time 20 When ignorance is bliss 21 I didn't think I had noticed it: unconscious processing 22 When recognition fails: agnosia 23 Phantom legs and neglected arms 24 Is your Tuesday green? Synaesthesia 25 Bodily integrity and identity: is it really me? 26 Empathy for pain and mirror neurons 27 Stop it, it tickles: why you can't tickle yourself 28 Huntington's disease, the Lady of the Lake and the hunt for the gene 29 Parkinson's disease: when go turns to slow 30 Musicians' dystonia: a brain out of tune 31 Clothes-pegs, sex, hobbies, addiction and gambling 32 Fun, fraud and fabrication: what a tangled web we weave 33 A god of the gaps and dental distress 34 The little brain 35 The magician's apprentice: back to basics 36 STROKE: the hour that struck 37 I'm as old as I feel 38 Where to now? Some forward-looking afterthoughts Further reading Index

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