The Tell-Tale Brain  

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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human is a 2010 nonfiction book by V. S. Ramachrandran that explores, from a neurological viewpoint, various aspects of human perception and how they relate to appreciation of art, the development of language, and how perception and the way it's processed make humans more like other animals, in particular hominids, or unique among species. For this, Ramachandran investigates cases of patients where certain systems in the brain of an otherwise normal individual have been disrupted including among others: autism, synesthesia, phantom limbs, Cotard delusion, and Broca's aphasia.

In the final chapter, Ramachandran discusses seven main concepts which define the human aspect of self and how each may be disrupted by a specific neurological disorder.




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