Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind Audiobook (Free)

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is normally internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few researchers have dared to address. His vibrant insights about the mind are matched just by the beautiful simpleness of his experiments-using such low-tech equipment such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the mind, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who’ve bizarre neurological disorders has shed brand-new about Phantoms in the mind: Probing the Mysteries from the Human Mind light over the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body picture, why we giggle or become depressed, why we might have confidence in God, and how we make decisions, deceive ourselves, and wish. Some of his most notable cases:

A female paralyzed in the left aspect of her body who is convinced she is lifting a holder of drinks with both of your hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud’s theory of denial.

A man who insists he’s speaking with God issues us to talk to: Could we be ‘wired’ for spiritual experience?

A female who hallucinates toon personas illustrates how, in a way, we are all hallucinating, on a regular basis.

Dr. Ramachandran’s influenced medical detective work pushes the limitations of medicine’s last great frontier-the human being mind-yielding fresh and provocative insights in to the ‘big questions’ about consciousness and the self.