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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Berkeley forum in the humanities |
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Berkeley forum in the humanities.
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| Note |
The essays collected here were presented at the workshop Plasticity and Pathology: History and Theory of Neural Subjects at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Toward an ethnography of experimental psychology / Emily Martin -- You are (not) your synapses : toward a critical approach to neuroscience / Catherine Malabou -- Plasticity, pathology, and pleasure in cold war America / Cathy Gere -- Epileptic insanity and personal identity : John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the neuropathic self / Nima Bassiri -- Integrations, vigilance, catastrophe : the neuropsychiatry of aphasia in Henry Head and Kurt Goldstein / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers -- The history of a brain wound : Alexander Luria and the dialectics of Soviet plasticity / Hannah Proctor and Laura Salisbury -- Automaticity, plasticity, and the deviant origins of artificial intelligence / David Bates -- Plastic diagrams : circuits in the brain and how they got there / Joseph Dumit -- Imperfect reflections : norms, pathology, and difference in mirror neuron research / Katja Guenther -- On how adult cerebral plasticity research has decoupled pathology from death / Tobias Rees. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Neuroplasticity -- Congresses.
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Neural transmission -- Congresses.
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Nervous system -- Diseases -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bates, David William, editor.
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Bassiri, Nima, editor.
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Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, sponsor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plasticity and Pathology : History and Theory of Neural Subjects (Workshop) Plasticity and pathology : on the formation of the neural subject. New York : Fordham University Press, [2016] Berkeley forum in the humanities 9780823266135 (DNLM)101662974 |
| ISBN |
9780823266135 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780823266142 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780823266173 (electronic bk.) |
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