Ramachandran's radical new approach will have far-reaching effects. The brain 'needs to create a "script" or a story to make sense of the world, a unified and internally consistent belief system'. Ramachandran believes that cases such as these illustrate fundamental principles of how the human brain operates. In a series of experiments using nothing more than Q-tips and dribbles of warm water the young man helped Ramachandran discover how the brain is remapped after injury. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists. Phantoms in the Brain (1998) is an enduring classic of popular science that has transformed how we think about the brain and its relationship to the human. A woman maintains that her left arm is not paralysed, a young man loses his right arm in a motorcycle accident, yet he continues to feel a phantom arm with vivid sensation of movement. Ramachandran, through his research into brain damage, has discovered that the brain is continually organising itself in response to change. She is the third generation in a family of science writers. 'Phantoms in The Brain', using a series of case histories, introduces strange and unexplored mental worlds. She has cowritten many books, including the bestselling Second Chances with Judith Wallerstein. 'Phantoms in The Brain' takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world's leading experimental neurologists.
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