Phantoms in the Brain

Why it’s on the list: V. S. Ramachandran’s introduction to what neurological oddities — phantom limbs and the like — reveal about how the brain works; the septivium list’s pick for cognitive neuropsychiatry.

Where I heard about it

• David Perell — shared the septivium list of best introductory books, where this is the pick for cognitive neuropsychiatry; one of the titles I flagged as most interesting on a first pass, April 2020.

Connections

• David Perell — shared the list: Hidden gem alert! Here’s a… (tweet) (saved verbatim), pointing at the septivium source http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/.
• Saved on April 17th, 2020.