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Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works

Name: Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works
Brand: John Murray One
SKU: 9781399801218
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Contributors:

Marc Dingman

Publisher:

John Murray One

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Medical, Psychology, Science

Book Subcategory:

Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences

Book Topic:

Neuroscience

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Release Date:

2024-09-10

ISBN 13:

9781399801218

Weight:

0.55 lbs

Size:

7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

288

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Description

The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre.

This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes.

Entertaining though they are, these cases are more than just oddities. In attempting to understand them, neuroscientists have uncovered important details about how the brain works. BIZARRE will examine these details while explaining what neuroscience's most unusual patients have taught us about normal brain function -ideal both for readers seeking a better appreciation of the inner workings of the brain and those who simply want some extraordinary topics for dinner-party conversation.

About the Author
Marc Dingman received his Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2013 from the Pennsylvania State University. Since then, he has been a faculty member in the Biobehavioral Health Department at the Pennsylvania State University, where teaches courses in neuroscience and the health sciences. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Health and Human Development in each of the past four years, the Health and Human Development Alumni Society Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017, and the Biobehavioral Health Outstanding Teaching Award in 2015.