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The Intentional Brain - Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry (Hardcover)
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The Intentional Brain - Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry (Hardcover)
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Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and
principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as
neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later,
neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer
again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and
drugs that alter the functioning of the central nervous system. But
as neuropsychiatrist Michael R. Trimble explains in The Intentional
Brain, the new neuropsychiatry has its own identity and is more
than simply a borderland between two disparate clinical
disciplines. Looking at neuropsychiatry in the context of major
cultural and artistic achievements, Trimble explores changing views
of the human brain and its relation to behavior and cognition over
2,500 years of Western civilization. Beginning with the early Greek
physicians and moving through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment,
the romantic era, the World Wars, and up to the present day, he
explores understandings about the brain's integral role in
determining movement, motivation, and mood. Persuasively arguing
that storytelling forms the backbone of human culture and
individuality, Trimble describes the dawn and development of
artistic creativity and traces the conflicts between differing
philosophical views of our world and our position in it. A sweeping
history of the branch of medicine concerned with both psychic and
organic aspects of mental disorder, the book reveals what
scientists have learned about movement and emotion by studying
people with such diseases as epilepsy, syphilis, hysteria,
psychosis, movement disorders, and melancholia. The Intentional
Brain is a marvelous and interdisciplinary look at the clinical
interface between the mind and the brain.
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