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Neurosciences, Physicians, Popular Works, Neurologic Manifestations, Brain Diseases, Brain, Popular works, Physiology, History, Diseases, Brain, physiology, Brain, diseases, Neuropsychology, nyt:science=2014-06-08, New York Times bestseller, Hirnforschung, NeurowissenschaftenPeople
William Sharpe, Charles Guiteau, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Pare, Cajal, Leon Czolgosz, James Holman, Silas Weir Mitchell, Carleton Gajdusk, Harvey Cushing, John Hemens, Wilder Penfield, BrocaPlaces
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Table of Contents
Part I:
Gross Anatomy
Introduction/5
Chapter One: The Dueling Neurosurgeons/17
Part Two:
Cells, Senses, Circuits
Chapter Two: The Assassin's Soup/43
Chapter Three: Wiring and Rewiring/73
Chapter Four: Facing Brain Damage/99
Part III:
Body and Brain
Chapter Five: The Brain's Motor/129
Chapter Six: The Laughing Disease/155
Chapter Seven: Sex and Punishment/183
Part IV:
Beliefs and Delusions
Chapter Eight: The Sacred Disease/215
Chapter Nine: " Sleights of Mind " /241
Part V:
CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter Ten: Honest Lying/267
Chapter Eleven: Left, Right, and center/299
Chapter Twelve: The Man, the Myth, the Legend/329
Acknowledgements/357
Notes and Miscellanea/359
Works Cited/383
Index/397
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