尋找腦中幻影

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這本書的作者拉瑪錢德朗醫師（以下簡稱拉瑪醫師）生長於印度，在醫學院畢業後，到英國接受臨床神經內科醫師的訓練，而後在劍橋大學獲得Ph.D.學位，最後在美國聖地牙哥加州大學從事認知醫學的研究，是聖地牙哥加州大學大腦與認知中心教授與主任，同時也是沙克生物研究中心研究團隊的一員。他是「Newsweek」選出廿一世紀中最重要的百人之一，曾經獲得多種獎項。

由於腦傷之故，一些人因為自己缺腿、缺手或相信某人的母親已被看似騙子的人所替代等，而產生如幻肢禍患首現象的幻覺，在臨床上往往被視為精神病或神經學上的奇特案例。作者是一位大腦研究學家，他以平易近人的文字，侃侃道出他與病人接觸的真實精彩實例，一窺我們的大腦機制。本書獲紐約時報書評、科學美國人及新科學家等的好評。

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V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, and is adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. One of the world's foremost brain researchers, he has received many scientific honors, including a gold medal from the Australian National University and a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He gave the "Decade of the Brain" lecture at the Silver Jubilee meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, and his work has been featured in major media. He lives with his family in Del Mar, California.

Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science writer for The New York Times. For the last ten years, her reporting specialty has been neuroscience. She is the coauthor, with Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D., of two books: the national bestseller Second Chances and The Good Marriage. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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