A leading psychiatrist shows how the mysteries of the brain are illuminated at the extremes of human experience A twin
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English Pages 288 Year 2021
Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
PART 1 HOW WE MAKE MEMORIES
1. Dawnings
2. Sensation: The Raw Ingredient of Memory
3. Making Sense
4. The Story of the Hippocampus
5. The Sixth Sense: The Hidden Cortex
6. A Sense of Place
7. Time and Experiencing Continuity
8. Stress: Remembering and ‘Forgetting’
PART 2 HOW MEMORY MAKES US
9. Self-Recognition: The Start of Autobiographical Memory
10. The Tree of Life: Arborizations and Prunings
11. A Sense of Self
12. Sex Hormones and Songbirds
13. The Shifting Narratives of Life
14. False or True?
15. The Oldest Memories
Postscript
Notes
References
Index