Strange Behavior Tales of Evolutionary Neurology

Name: Strange Behavior Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
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ISBN: 9780393321845

ISBN-10: 0393321843

ISBN-13: 9780393321845

Edition: 2001

Authors: Harold Klawans

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In this book neurologist Harold Klawans draws on his experiences of working with people with many neurological problems to explore the evolutionary underpinnings of behaviour.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface



The Ascent of Cognitive Function



Defending the Cavewoman: The Window of Opportunity for Learning



A Lucy of My Very Own: Locating Handedness and Speech



The Gift of Speech: Frank Morrell and the Treatment of Acquired Epileptic Aphasia



Manganese Miners: Hard Wiring for Movement



I Never Read a Movie I Liked: The Architecture of Reading



One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Literacy Changes the Brain



The Music Goes Round and Round: But It Comes in Where?



The Brain's Soft Spots: Programmed Cell Death, Prions, and Pain



My Lunch with Oliver: Why That Morning Was Different from All the Other Mornings



Two Sets of Brains: Something Old, Something "New"



Anticipation: Unto the Third Generation and Beyond



The Hermit of Thief River Falls: On First Meeting an Eponym



Mad Cows and Mad Markets: Ice-Nine and the Non-Darwinian Evolution of Man and Disease



Whatever Happened to Baby Neanderthal? An Afterthought


Index