Equinox: Brain

by JackChalloner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  This volume opens by presenting an overview of the complex workings of the brain. The following six chapters are each based on an individual programme from the Equinox television series. Immortality looks at our abilities to regenerate cell growth and transplant brain cells; Phantom Brains is about the extraordinary phenomenon of phantom limbs; Neuroscientist investigates lies and deception; Psychopaths is an account of a project looking at psychopaths; Tales of Madness uses archive material to investigate the history of lobotomy; and Mindreaders explores the theory of the mind.