

Phantoms in the Brain
Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Author: Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran
Narrator: Neil Shah
Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/24/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Medical, Neuroscience, Psychology, Neuropsychology
Synopsis
A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial.
A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience?
A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time.
Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier—the human mind—yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.