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• Title:Neuro-philosophy and the healthy mind : learning from the unwell brain / Georg Northoff.
  
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• Author/Creator:Northoff, Georg, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL300 .N67 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Brain--Physiology.
  Consciousness--Physiology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Philosophy, Medical.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
  
• Summary:Can we "see" or "find" consciousness in the brain? How can we create working definitions of consciousness and subjectivity, informed by what contemporary research and technology have taught us about how the brain works? How do neuronal processes in the brain relate to our experience of a personal identity? To explore these and other questions, Georg Northoff turns to examples of unhealthy minds. By investigating consciousness through its absence in a vegetative state, for example, we can develop a model for understanding its presence in an active, healthy person. By examining instances of distorted self-recognition in people with psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia, we can begin to understand how the experience of "self" is established in a stable brain. Taking an integrative approach to understanding the self, consciousness, and what it means to be mentally healthy, this book brings insights from neuroscience to bear on philosophical questions. -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393709384 paperback
  0393709388 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Loss Of Consciousness
  ch. 2 Consciousness
  ch. 3 Self
  ch. 4 Depression And The Mind-Brain Problem
  ch. 5 Feeling The World
  ch. 6 World-Brain Disruption In Schizophrenia
  ch. 7 Identity And Time.