Nera Surgery, Is It Neerological?

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Vascular neurology more amenable to treatment than broader, less localized ailments. There's a lot of things happening that can be states of inflammation throughout the body - we just don't quite know how. We need to learn how to read statistics and understand what these studies are tis very important. And scepticism, scepti and people have forgotten, you know, that scepticism is foundational to to the creation of modern science. It's no such thing as knowledge get rid of dogma; there's ta last answer.

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.