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by plinkplonk 16y ago
http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind... ("Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. .. Dr Ramachandran is the author of the author of Phantoms in the Brain (the basis for a Nova special), A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness and The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain")
Very hacker like, brilliant, work.
- chroma 16y agoThis is also my favorite TED talk. Ramachandran has come up with some clever ways to study and heal the brain. His mirror box therapy is not only simple and effective, but his prerequisite theory was accurate yet initially based on a tiny amount of evidence. Here's a short talk by Ramachandran on mirror neurons: http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_sh...
- tunaslut 16y agoThe mirror neurons talk is awesome - I saw it several months ago - thanks for reminding me about it!
- avinashv 16y agoI highly recommend reading his book Phantoms in the Brain. Fascinating and approachable introduction to the kind of neuroscience--some of the talk's examples come from this book--that he talks about.