Book Review
Eve GleichmanNeurobiology 202May 12, 2010Paul Grobstein Book Review: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman...
View ArticleMy Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuro-anatomist who wrote a book called “My Stroke of Insight”, which is an account of her experience of a stroke that took place in the left...
View ArticleBook Review: "Inevitable Illusions"
“The Eyes sees what it sees, even when we know what we know”(P17).read more
View ArticleBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink is an exploration of rapid cognition, of the thinking that happens in the blink of an eye, and is an attempt to “understand this magical and mysterious thing called...
View ArticleThe Emperor's New Drugs
Controversial news has broken loose in the mental health community: antidepressants are hardly better than placebos!read more
View ArticleNeurobiological Reflections on "The Matrix"
"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? If you were unable to awake from that dream, how would you know the difference between that dream world and the real world?" -Morpheus...
View ArticleMetaphors We Live By: Conceptualizing Through Metaphor
Metaphor as a term is rarely taken out of the context of rhetorical and figurative language, and is overwhelmingly viewed as a product of language, an imaginative linguistic output. In Metaphors We...
View ArticleThe Female Brain
In her book, The Female Brain, Louanne Brizendine describes the stages that the female brain goes through during life, citing brain structure and chemistry as the departure for differences between the...
View ArticleTranslating Temple Grandin's 'Animals in Translation'
Uncertain how to begin my commentary on Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Human Behavior, I revisited my book commentary for Paul’s Emergence class, which...
View ArticleWhere is the Mango Princess Book Commentary
Book Commentary: Where is the Mango Princess?read more
View ArticleMy Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
Herman MarciaProfessor Grobstein05/06/2010My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Flemingread more
View ArticleBook Commentary on Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain
Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia, is a distinguished best-selling author as well as physician and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center. He has even been...
View ArticleOliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks’ novel, An Anthropologist on Mars, contains seven fascinating and strange neurobiological stories that explore unique perceptions and experiences of both the world and oneself in the...
View ArticleSoul Made Flesh
Sophie Balis-Harris Web Book Commentary: Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmerread more
View ArticleSoul Made Flesh
Sophie Balis-Harris Web Book Commentary: Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmerread more
View Article"The Forbidden Experiment" Book Commentary
The Forbidden Experiment Book Commentaryread more
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