The Intentional Brain. Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry

Michael R. Trimble

ISBN 10: 1421419491 / ISBN 13: 9781421419497

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, USA, 2016

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Hardback in jacket. 23.5x15.5cm. xx+308 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref HHS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intentional Brain. Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421419491
• ISBN 13: 9781421419497
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st impression
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A magnificent examination of the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.

Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later, neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and drugs that alter the functioning of the central nervous system. But as neuropsychiatrist Michael R. Trimble explains in The Intentional Brain, the new neuropsychiatry has its own identity and is more than simply a borderland between two disparate clinical disciplines.

Looking at neuropsychiatry in the context of major cultural and artistic achievements, Trimble explores changing views of the human brain and its relation to behavior and cognition over 2,500 years of Western civilization. Beginning with the early Greek physicians and moving through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, the romantic era, the World Wars, and up to the present day, he explores understandings about the brain’s integral role in determining movement, motivation, and mood. Persuasively arguing that storytelling forms the backbone of human culture and individuality, Trimble describes the dawn and development of artistic creativity and traces the conflicts between differing philosophical views of our world and our position in it.

A sweeping history of the branch of medicine concerned with both psychic and organic aspects of mental disorder, the book reveals what scientists have learned about movement and emotion by studying people with such diseases as epilepsy, syphilis, hysteria, psychosis, movement disorders, and melancholia. The Intentional Brain is a marvelous and interdisciplinary look at the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.

About the Author

Michael R. Trimble, MD, is professor emeritus of behavioral neurology at University College London's Institute of Neurology. He is the author of The Intentional Brain: Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry, also published by Johns Hopkins.