Plasticity and pathology : on the formation of the neural subject /
Plasticity and pathology : on the formation of the neural subject /
edited by David Bates and Nima Bassiri.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations.
- Berkeley forum in the humanities .
- Berkeley forum in the humanities. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823266173
Neuroplasticity--Congresses.
Neural transmission--Congresses.
Nervous system--Diseases--Congresses.
Electronic books.
QP355.2 / .P53 2016
612.8/1
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823266173
Neuroplasticity--Congresses.
Neural transmission--Congresses.
Nervous system--Diseases--Congresses.
Electronic books.
QP355.2 / .P53 2016
612.8/1