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Antonio R. Damasio (1994) Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Avon Books. New York. Although presented in purely ‘western’ neurological terms, Damasio’s Somatic-Marker hypothesis is moving in the right direction as far as cross-paradigm understanding of TCM is concerned.
Intro,Contents Notes,References
Chpt1.Unpleasantness in Vermont.
Chpt2. Gage’s Brain Revealed.
Chpt3. A Modern Phineas Gage.
Chpt4. In Colder Blood.
Chapt5. Assembling an Explanation.
Chpt6. Biological Regulation and Survival.
Chpt7. Emotions and FeelingsA. EmoFeelB.
Chpt8. The Somatic-Marker HypothesisA. SomMarkB.
Chpt9. Testing the Somatic-Marker Hypothesis.
Chpt10. The Body-Minded Brain.
Chpt11. A Passion for Reasoning. PostScript.
Joseph LeDoux (1996) The Emotional Brain. The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. TOUCHSTONE. Simon & Schuster. PREFACE
1. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WTTH IT?
2. SOULS ON ICE
3. BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS
4. THE HOLY GRAIL
5. THE WAY WE WERE
6. A FEW DEGREES OF SEPARATION
7. REMEMBRANCE OF EMOTIONS PAST
8. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
9. ONCE MORE, WITH FEELINGS
Antonio R. Damasio (1999) The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciosness. Harcourt Brace. New York.
Part III of this book, ‘A Biology for Knowing’, deserves to be read a number of times for those seriously interested in WMB/TCM research and understanding. It remains to be properly explicated in terms of cross-paradigm research, but this is surely only a matter of time. Watch this website.
Introduction. Notes.
Chpt1. Stepping into the Light.
Chpt2. Emotion and FeelingA. EmoFeelB.
Chpt3. Core Consciousness.
Chpt4. The Hint Half Hinted.
Chpt5. The Organism and the ObjectA. OrganObjB.
Chpt6. The Making of Core Consciousness.
Chpt7. Extended ConsciousnessA. ExtConscB.
Chpt8. The Neurology of ConsciousnessA. NeuroConscB. Chpt9. Feeling Feelings.
Chpt10. Using Consciousness.
Chpt11. Under the Light. Appendix.
Joseph LeDoux (2002) Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. Penguin. New York. LeDoux is a major contributor to modern understanding of the relationship between the brain and the body, and emotions and individual identity. “You are your synapses”.
Introduction,etc. Notes. Bibliography.
Chpt1. The Big One.
Chpt2. Seeking the Self.
Chpt3. The Most Unaccountable of Machinery.
Chpt4. Building the Brain..
Chpt5. Adventures in Time.
Chpt6. Small Change.
Chpt7. The Mental Trilogy.
Chpt8. The Emotional Brain Revisited.
Chpt9. The Lost World.
Chpt10. Synaptic SicknessA. SynapSickB.
Chpt11. Who Are You?
Antonio Damasio (2003) Looking for Spinoza; joy, sorrow and the feeling brain. Vintage. London.
In this third book Damasio continues the development of his ideas relating to body, brain, emotions and feelings. He takes inspiration from the work of 17th century Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza.
Intro., Appendices, Notes, Glossary. Spin1.
Chpt.1; Enter Feelings.
Chpt.2; Of Appetite and Emotions. Spin2.
Chpt.3; Feelings. Spin3.
Chapt.4; Ever Since Feelings Spin4.
Chpt.5; Body, Brain, and Mind. Spin5.
Chpt.6; A Visit to Spinoza.
Chpt.7; Who’s There? Spin6.
Antonio R. Damasio (2010) Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. Pantheon. New York.
In this fourth book Damasio addresses the question of how consciousness comes about. Here he develops the thinking of his previous books, but still deals with relationships of the body, brain and mind. Importantly for TCM/ WMB cross-paradigm research, he emphasises the significance of the brainstem, and ongoing homeostasis, in establishing self and mind.
Introduction, Contents. Notes.
Chpt1. Awakening.
Chpt2. From Life Regulation to Biological Value.
Chpt3. Making Maps and Making Images.
Chpt4. The Body in Mind.
Chpt5. Emotions and Feelings.
Chpt6. An Architecture for Memory.
Chpt7. Consciousness Observed.
Chpt8. Building a Conscious Mind.
Chpt9. The Autobiographical Self.
Chpt10. Putting it Together.
Chpt11. Living With Consciousness.
Appendix.
Jaak Panksepp (1996) Affective Neuroscience. The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions.
An intelligent and thorough look at this topic area by a distinguished research Professor of psychobiology.
Preface/Contents/Appendices
1. Affective Neuroscience: History and Major Concepts.
2. Emotional Operating Systems and Subjectivity.
3. The Varieties of Emotional Systems in the Brain.
4. Neurostatics: The Anatomy of the Brain/Mind.
5. Neurodynamics: The Electrical Language of the Brain.
6. Neurochemical Maps of the Brain.
7. Sleep, Arousal and Mythmaking in the Brain.
8. SEEKING Systems and Anticipatory States.
9. Pleasures and Pains of Brain Regulatory Systems.
10. Neurobiological Sources of Rage and Anger.
11. Sources of Fear and Anxiety.
12. Neural Control of Sexuality.
13. Sources of Nurturance and Maternal Behaviour.
14. Sources of Sorrow and Grief.
15. Brain Sources of Joy.
16. Emotions; Higher Cerebral Processes and the SELF.
Pank2 Pank3 Pank4 Pank5 Pank6 Pank7 Pank8 Pank9
FootNotes1. FootNotes2. Author Index.
Jean-Pierre Changeux (1985) Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind. (Trans. Dr Lawrence Garey). OxfordUP. New York. An oldie but a goodie.
Introduction, Contents, Glossary.
Notes, Bibliography.
1. The ‘Organ of the Soul’- from ancient Egypt to the Belle Époque.
2. The Component Parts of the Brain.
3. Animal Spirits.
4. Into Action.
5. Mental ObjectsA, MentObjB.
6. The Power of the Genes.
7. EpigenesisA, EpiGenB.
8. Anthropogenesis.
9. The Brain---Representation of the World.
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