The actor's brain: Exploring the cognitive neuroscience of free will - Hardcover

Spence, Sean A.

 
9780198526667: The actor's brain: Exploring the cognitive neuroscience of free will
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198526660 ISBN 13: 9780198526667
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2009

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Is free will just an illusion? This book takes a journey into the brain to examine what is known about voluntary behaviour, and why it can go wrong.

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Sean A Spence is Professor of General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, where he is consultant to the Homeless Assessment and Support Team. He has previously held a De Witt-Wallace visiting research fellowship at Cornell University, New York (1999) and a MRC Clinical Training Fellowship on the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1995 - 1998) while contemporaneously Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. In 1997 he was awarded both the Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Prize and Medal and the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Psychiatry Essay Prize. His principal research interest is in the regulation of voluntary behaviour (volition) in healthy people and those affected by neuropsychiatric disease. His clinical interests include the psychiatric care of the homeless and the socially marginalised.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198526660
ISBN 13 
9780198526667
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
462
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