ISBN:
9781107082601
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9781107442962
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 304 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Coles, Alasdair Neurology and Religion
DDC:
616.8
Keywords:
Neurology
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Religion
;
Nervous System Diseases
;
Religion and Science
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Religion
;
Neuropsychologie
;
Kognitionswissenschaft
Abstract:
The discipline of neurology / Alasdair Coles -- The scientific study of religion / Joanna Collicutt -- Methodological hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion / Stuart Judge -- Embodied cognition and the neurology of religion / Warren Brown -- Phenomenology, neurology, psychiatry, and religious commitment / Ian Kidd -- Philosophical hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion / Daniel de Haan -- The Glass Onion and the mereological fallacy / Sophie Grace Chappell -- Toward an islamic neuropsychiatry : a classification of the diseases of the head in ʻAlī ibn Sahl Rabbān al-Ṭabarī Paradise of wisdom / Alasdair Coles -- Temporal lobe epilepsy, Dostoyevsky and irrational significance -- Disease, religious belief and spirituality / Clare Redfern & Roger Baker Parkinson -- Beyond reasonable doubt : cognitive and neuropsychological implications for religious disbelief / Pennycook et al. -- Ramadam fasting and neurologic disorders / Ashraf El-Mitwalli -- Autism and the panoply of religious belief, disbelief and experience / Kelly Clark & Ingela Visuri -- Personhood and religion in people with dementia / Julian Hughes -- Religion and frontotemporal dementia / Nicolas Block and Bruce Miller -- Religion and spirituality in neuro-rehabilitation : a case study / Joanna Collicut -- Eastern spirituality, mind-body practices and neuro-rehabilitation / Giles Yeates -- Examining the continuum of life to determine death : a Jewish perspective / Aron Buchman -- Near-death & out-of-body experiences : a case for dialogue between scientist & theologian? / Michael Marsh.
Abstract:
"Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the nervous system. The subject started, in its modern form, with the work of Thomas Willis in seventeenth century England, as mentioned by Joanna Collicutt. Willis studied the effects of diseases (for instance stroke) of the brain in people in life, and compared these with their anatomical effects at post-mortem. From these observations, he systematically assembled an account of the hierarchical nature of the nervous system from the peripheral nerves to the spinal cord, and then on through an ascending series of structures in the brain. This clinico-pathological tradition reached its apogee in the work of Jean-Martin Charcot in late nineteenth century Paris (Clifford Rose 1999). Since then, the imaging and laboratory sciences have increasingly informed our understanding of the normal function of the brain and its diseases. A key concept, for the purposes of this volume, is that different parts of the brain are specialised for different functions. Thomas Willis proposed this, and since his time opinion has swung from the extremes of localisation (the idea, for instance, that one neuron in your brain is responsible for "recognising" your grandmother) to the "equipotential view" (where all parts of the brain are equally involved in all brain function). The modern view is that distinctive brain functions are subserved by separate networks of anatomical structures"--
DOI:
10.1017/9781316014165
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