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ZIN Product Number: 10043421
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 Format: Paperback, 343 pages
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
ISBN: 0201483378
Release Date: Jan 8, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
"Neurophysiologist Calvin and neurosurgeon Ojemann examine memory, language, and epilepsy. . . . The Neil of their title (who had not been wearing his seatbelt 15 years earlier when the crash occurred that caused his epilepsy)is a composite of various patients." (Booklist) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
In a series of highly charged encounters before, after, and during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient, Neil; his surgeon, George Ojemann; and neuroscientist William Calvin explore the intricate landscape of the brain, and in so doing, reveal the mystery of human memory, thought, and language. With novelistic detail, Conversations with Neil's Brain tells the story of a man offered the promise of surgery that can end his seizures. But with the opportunity for such a dramatic cure comes risk. The surgeon must remove a portion of Neil's temporal lobe, and if the instrument is off, the mistake could alter or erase essential parts of Neil. To avoid causing such irreparable harm, George Ojemann must develop a detailed map of the individual patient's brain, a map that identifies each specific region responsible for each highly specific function - the kind of map that can be developed only by probing for responses from the patient while he is awake and able to communicate, but while his cerebral cortex is exposed. Conversations with Neil's Brain takes us inside the operating room and allows us to be part of this eerie process of discovery, using it to provide a unique window on human consciousness and the nature of human identity. As we begin to understand, one region of cortex determines Neil's ability to follow a joke to the punchline; another determines his ability to recognize a face. A slip in one direction might damage Neil's ability to read, but not his ability to write. A different slip could wipe out Neil's ability to speak Spanish (his second language) but not his native English. Another could leave him able to identify an animal as an elephant, but never able to remember that its name was Babar. The mapping of Neil's brain brings to life as never before the astounding specificity by which the brain operates, making clear why reading, learning, memory, and decision making are so complex, and why such afflictions as learning disabilities, mental disorders, Alzh
| | | | Annotation
Neurosurgery on brain of epileptic pat. prov. background for discussion on nature of human identity.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Out of an absorbing drama comes a fascinating science book: the story of Neil, an epileptic patient, and his surgeon Ojemann. The details of Neil's brain surgery (off by a millimeter, the knife could, for example, damage his ability to read, but not to write) make clear why language, memory, and decision-making are so complex and why learning disabilities are often so vexing. A study on par with the best of Oliver Sacks
| |  | | | | 1 | A Window to the Brain | 1 | | 2 | Losing Consciousness | 19 | | 3 | Seeing the Brain Speak | 39 | | 4 | If Language Is Left, What's Right? | 59 | | 5 | The Problems with Paying Attention | 75 | | 6 | The Personality of the Lowly Neuron | 89 | | 7 | The What and Where of Memory | 109 | | 8 | How Are Memories Made? | 123 | | 9 | What's Up Front | 137 | | 10 | When Things Go Wrong with Thought and Mood | 151 | | 11 | Tuning Up the Brain by Pruning | 171 | | 12 | Acquiring and Reacquiring Language | 185 | | 13 | Taking Apart the Visual Image | 203 | | 14 | How the Brain Subdivides Language | 219 | | 15 | Why Can We Read So Well? | 231 | | 16 | Stringing Things Together in Novel Ways | 243 | | 17 | Deep in the Temporal Lobe, Just Across from the Brain Stem | 253 | | 18 | In Search of the Narrator | 267 | | Postscript and Acknowledgments | 293 | | General References | 295 | | End Notes | 297 | | Index | 331 |
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Science/Mathematics, Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Surgery, Brain, Consciousness, Epilepsy
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