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Plasticity and Pathology - On the Formation of the Neural Subject (Paperback)
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Plasticity and Pathology - On the Formation of the Neural Subject (Paperback)
Series: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
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With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in
neuroscience, it is now commonplace to assume that the study of a
human person-a thinking, feeling, acting subject-is ultimately the
study of the human brain. In both Europe and the United States,
massive state-funded research is focused on mapping the brain in
all its remarkable complexity. The metaphors employed are largely
technological: A wiring diagram of synaptic connectivity will lead
to a better understanding of human behavior and perhaps insights
into the breakdown of human personhood with diseases of the brain
such as Alzheimer's. Alongside this technologized discourse of the
brain as locus of human subjectivity we find another perspective,
one that emphasizes its essential plasticity-in both the
developmental sense and as a response to traumas such as strokes,
tumors, or gunshot wounds. This collection of essays brings
together a diverse range of scholars to investigate how the "neural
subject" of the twenty-first century came to be. Taking approaches
both historical and theoretical, they probe the possibilities and
limits of neuroscientific understandings of human experience.
Topics include landmark studies in the history of neuroscience, the
relationship between neural and technological "pathologies," and
analyses of contemporary concepts of plasticity and pathology in
cognitive neuroscience. Central to the volume is a critical
examination of the relationship between pathology and plasticity.
Because pathology is often the occasion for neural reorganization
and adaptation, it exists not in opposition to the brain's "normal"
operation but instead as something intimately connected to our ways
of being and understanding.
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