Clinicopsychological investigations of local brain lesionsNörobilim
Professor Luria’s book thus marks a further and decisive step toward the eventual coalescence of neurology and psychology, a goal to which only a few laboratories on the East and West have been devoted over the last decades. The book is unique in its organization. The first half deals with observations and interpretations concerning the major syndromes of man’s left cerebral hemisphere:
Those grievous distortions of higher functions traditionally described as aphasia, agnosia, and apraxia. There is also a detailed and brilliant analysis of the syndrome of massive frontal-lobe involvement. The entire second half of the book is given over to a painstaking description of Professor Luria’s tests, many of them introduced by himself, and set out in such detail that anyone could repeat them and thus verify Professor Luria’s interpretations. The two halves of the book are equally challenging and original. In the first, more theoretical, section, Professor Luria gives an account of the major syndromes in terms that reject with the same force the traditional localizationist view -the notion of discrete centers for different aspects of language, of calculation or writing- and the opposite view of holistic function of the cerebral hemisphere, a view clearly incompatible with clinical and experimental fact. In a similar way, Professor Luria’s re-analysis of agnosia and apraxia reveals inadequacies of these clinical shorthand expressions, he points out that more elementary sensory and motor changes shade into the allegedly isolated aspects of distorted “higher” function, whether of recognition or skilled movement. As a result of this balanced approach, a further traditional distinction falls by the wayside—the traditional opposition in the description of aphasia between the
Why 10 minutes and 38 secondsAraştırma-İnceleme
While reading, I kept wondering why the book was titled 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds. Why not just 10 minutes, or 10 minutes and 30 seconds? That extra 38 seconds felt so specific. By the end, I understood that Elif Shafak is not only a masterful storyteller, able to capture the soul of situations with the perfect words, but also a writer who carefully grounds her fiction in research.
The number refers to scientific studies on what happens to the human brain after death. Neuroscientists have discovered that the brain does not shut down immediately when the heart stops beating. In fact, brain cells can remain active for several minutes, allowing flashes of memory and fragments of consciousness to persist. Some studies have recorded brain activity for as long as 10 minutes after clinical death. Shafak takes this fact, deepens it, and turns it into something symbolic: 10 minutes and 38 seconds, the final window in which an entire life can unfold in sensory memories.
"Perhaps a person's thoughts survived longer than his heart, his dreams longer than his pancreas, his wishes longer than his gall-bladder... If that were true, shouldn't human beings be considered semi-alive?"
The story in which the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson started, with a puzzling and above their grade murder for The Scotland Yard. The detectives of the force, Lestrade and Gregson, goes to Sherlock Holmes for the case and the story begins. Before all that, John Watson starts his own story in his own terms with a background of his own life and we all read the cases from his view as most of you know. At first, Doctor Watson's opinion of Sherlock Holmes lies solely upon watching what he does and where he goes out of curiousity -until the case presented itself and Holmes brought Watson with him.
As for the case, it looked rather plain but also a head-scratcher but it doesn't give you all that time to wonder about. While the things happens fast and it really looks like an ongoing investigation, on the bring of its edge we're thrown into the perpetrators and the victims backgrounds as if it's a completely different story. I would rather read everything from the eyes of Watson through the antagonist's confession.
Other than those, I love how Holmes explained his thought process to Watson step by step. And by reading them, I did think to myself that it wasn’t so complicated to figure out. Well, BBC' Sherlock Holmes would've called me an idiot and took an interest on how would it feel to live in my smooth brain with no folds. But the original Holmes looks cool enough, so I will be sticking with him for the rest of his cases. Hope to read more, and hope you like it if you read it.
Madness!1000Kitap
Stefan Zweig-Chess
Undoubtedly Stefan Zweig is one of the writers who reflects human emotions and handles them deeply. I can say that after reading Metamorphosis (I mentioned it to everyone and made a review of ), I couldn’t escape from its influence, and cannot still. It mentioned the value of human beings. It emphasized Gregor himself. Franz Kafka depicted the protagonist, Gregor as a ghost to reveal whether Gregor thinks of himself or considers what people say. Similarly, Chess succeeded in being one of my priorities with an emphasis on humans and his struggle to be healthy. What I mean by the word ‘healthy’? Okay. I want to ask a question to you. Do passions keep a person alive? Can they make a person mad as well? I will try to guess what your answer is. What if passions encourage a person to span a good life, can passions cause to the point he will suffer as well? That is what Zweig emphasizes. Zweig deals with Dr. B. in the book to show how strong and intelligent he is in the middle of nowhere, on the verge of insanity… Is it possible for a person to be mad and lose functions of the brain stemming from solidity and speechlessness? Maybe if he couldn’t find the chess book in the pocket of the guard, despair and loneliness would bring about madness!
---“Was that chess or madness in the cell?!” I think that there would not be any problem if the passion did not turn to jeopardy, and they do not symbolize the worst moments. The reason he is still smart and makes proper sentences in this isolated life is chess. He continuously studied it. He contemplated the chess board in his mind without real tools. He solved its rules and how to play on his own. And this passion went on in that way.
He was imprisoned by the Nazis who has pressure on Austria to get important
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? | Neden Bunu Bana Daha Önce Kimse Söylemedi?
Goodreads: 3,9/5
1000kitap: 7,9/10
5/5
“Yine tüm gücünüzle değişim ve başarı için çalışırsınız, ama anlamlı bir hayatı beklemezsiniz, çünkü ona zaten sahipsinizdir.”
“Dikkatinizin spot ışığını yönelttiğiniz yer, deneyiminizi inşa etmeye yardım edecektir.”
Yazarın sosyal medyada videolarına denk gelmiştim ve izleyince de oldukça faydalı bilgiler içerdiğini görmüştüm. Yazarı bir süre sosyal medya hesabından takip ettim ve daha sonra biraz araştırınca kitabı olduğunu öğrenerek okumak istedim. Kitapta motivasyon, duygusal ıstırap, anlamlı bir hayat, yas, korku, stres konuları üzerinde duruluyor. Kitabı okurken açıkçası daha önce duymadığım ya da henüz bilmediğim yani “Neden Bunu Bana Daha Önce Kimse Söylemedi?” şeklinde düşünmeye beni iten yeni bir bilgiye rastlamadım. Fakat psikoloji üzerine birçok eser okuduğum için bana aşina bilgiler içeriyor olabilir, belki sizler için durum farklı olur. Kitap daha çok farkındalık kazandırmak üzerine oluşturulmuş bir eser. Benim için yeni olan bir bilgiye rastlamamış olmama rağmen kitabı yine de çok sevdim ve puan kırmadım. Çünkü her ne kadar içerdiği konuları biliyor olsam da kitabı bitirdiğimde farkındalığımı artırdı eser. Bu nedenle tam puan verdim ve okumanızı özellikle tavsiye ederim. Ayrıca yazar kitabın sonunda bazı kitaplar ve organizasyonlar da öneriyor. Bende kendime öneriler arasından bir liste yaptım ve yorumumun sonunda sizlerle de o listeyi paylaşacağım. Keyifle okuduğum, ziyadesiyle yararlandığım bir eser oldu. Dilerim sizler için de farkındalığınızı artıracağınız bir kitap olur. Keyifli okumalar diliyorum.
Kitap ve organizasyon önerileri arasından benim listeme aldıklarım:
-Isabel Clarke, How to Deal with Anger: A 5-step CBT-based
Sahilde Kafka, Haruki Murakami
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1. Kafka Tamura
2. Your servant Nakata
3. Entrance stone
4. Colonel Winston
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Kafka Tamura
A fifteen-year-old boy. His mother left home when he was 3 years old and he was living together with his father. But the father was so busy with his own life and he was not aware of his son. One day he decided to escape from home. He prepared his bag, took some money from his father's valet.
He did not have any idea where to go. He did not have any plan. He just wanted to leave home and live alone in an unknown place, far away from all his relatives and friends. He did not only left home but he also left the school. He was studying at a middle school and he was to finish it because it was compulsory for anyone to finish at least middle school.
This story is an interesting affair for any teenager. Leaving home and school. Packing his suitcase putting some underwear and t-shirts. One hand in the pocket and the suitcase on the shoulder, sun glasses on the eyes... Money enough to live for a few days... Later... No problem... Solutions are to be explored... Experience is to be tested.
I want to travel now in the cells of his brain. What kind of expectations or which reason is to be handled as the key word of this travel desire... leaving all his life behind, for a new but an unknown life considering that on that time he was only fifteen years old. No mother. No brother and sister. Father, yes, but just a name, he was outside of this sight, busy with his job, not aware of his son, even he was at home or not he never thinks...
He generates his own wish to travel with his bag as a companion. Why? How does a human, a teenager feed his wishes for such a travel?
This is the question
