تاملاتی از یک متخصص روان‌شناسی عصبی ۲۰۱۸
Reflections of a Neuropsychologist 2018

1. Cover

2. Half Title

3. Title Page

4. Copyright page

5. Table of Contents

6. Preface

7. Acknowledgements

1 The evolution of all things

2 Tools: tacit and tactual symbols of civilisation

3 Art, graffiti, juvenilia or Kilroy?

4 Language: what tales the tongue may tell

5 The child is father to the man

6 The Old Forge and my first school

7 Secondary school early awakenings, or where the whore moans, there moan I

8 Dreaming spires, Oxford days, et in arcadia ego

9 Sticking up like a sore thumb: hitch-hiking

10 An industrious interlude and industrial interval: ICI

11 An ugly picture in a beautiful frame

12 The Golden Road, or a shot in the dark

13 Eyes, a window to your thoughts

14 Aotearoa: a year in the land of the long white cloud

15 Terra Australis (nobis adhuc) incognita

16 Commissural connectivity

17 Harry McGurk, read my lips: ventriloquism

18 Mirror, mirror on the wall: symmetrical stimuli and bimanual responses

19 Consciousness, will and time

20 When ignorance is bliss

21 I didn’t think I had noticed it: unconscious processing

22 When recognition fails: agnosia

23 Phantom legs and neglected arms

24 Is your Tuesday green? Synaesthesia

25 Bodily integrity and identity: is it really me?

26 Empathy for pain and mirror neurons

27 Stop it, it tickles: why you can’t tickle yourself

28 Huntington’s disease, the Lady of the Lake and the hunt for the gene

29 Parkinson’s disease: when go turns to slow

30 Musicians’ dystonia: a brain out of tune

31 Clothes-pegs, sex, hobbies, addiction and gambling

32 Fun, fraud and fabrication: what a tangled web we weave

33 A god of the gaps and dental distress

34 The little brain

35 The magician’s apprentice: back to basics

36 STROKE: the hour that struck

37 I’m as old as I feel

38 Where to now? Some forward-looking afterthoughts

46. Further reading

47. Index