Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology /
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| Author / Creator: | Klawans, Harold L. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2000. |
| Description: | 256 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4241490 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1. The Ascent of Cognitive Function
- 1.. Defending the Cavewoman: The Window of Opportunity for Learning
- 2.. A Lucy of My Very Own: Locating Handedness and Speech
- 3.. The Gift of Speech: Frank Morrell and the Treatment of Acquired Epileptic Aphasia
- 4.. Manganese Miners: Hard Wiring for Movement
- 5.. I Never Read a Movie I Liked: The Architecture of Reading
- 6.. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Literacy Changes the Brain
- 7.. The Music Goes Round and Round: But It Comes in Where?
- Part 2. The Brain's Soft Spots: Programmed Cell Death, Prions, and Pain
- 8.. My Lunch with Oliver: Why That Morning Was Different from All the Other Mornings
- 9.. Two Sets of Brains: Something Old, Something "New"
- 10.. Anticipation: Unto the Third Generation and Beyond
- 11.. The Hermit of Thief River Falls: On First Meeting an Eponym
- 12.. Mad Cows and Mad Markets: Ice-Nine and the Non-Darwinian Evolution of Man and Disease
- 13.. Whatever Happened to Baby Neanderthal? An Afterthought
- Index
