Bizarre - Marc Dingman

Bizarre

The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2023
Nicholas Brealey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-3998-0120-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Brain science at its most accessible, informative and intriguing.
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre.

This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes.

Entertaining though they are, these cases are more than just oddities. In attempting to understand them, neuroscientists have uncovered important details about how the brain works. BIZARRE will examine these details while explaining what neuroscience's most unusual patients have taught us about normal brain function -ideal both for readers seeking a better appreciation of the inner workings of the brain and those who simply want some extraordinary topics for dinner-party conversation.

Marc Dingman received his Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2013 from the Pennsylvania State University. Since then, he has been a faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department at the Pennsylvania State University, where teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Health and Human Development in each of the past four years, the Health and Human Development Alumni Society Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017, and the Biobehavioral Health Outstanding Teaching Award in 2015.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 214 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Studium
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 1-3998-0120-1 / 1399801201
ISBN-13 978-1-3998-0120-1 / 9781399801201
Zustand Neuware
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