Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran ( born 1951 in Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian, working in the U.S. neurologist. He currently lives in San Diego, California.

Biography

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran was born in 1951 as the son of an Indian diplomat and academic family in India. He completed a medical degree in 1974 at the Stanley Medical College in Madras ( India). At this time, his interests lay in surgery. He received in 1978 at the University of Cambridge, where he studied under the direction of David Whitteridge human psychophysics and neurophysiology his doctorate degree.

Since 1998 he has been a professor at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, where he also teaches at the Salk Institute by Nobel laureate Francis Crick. In addition, he directs the Center for Brain and Cognition.

His marriage to Diane Rogers - Ramachandran had two sons.

Padma Bhushan 2007, he was awarded.

Research

The interests of the neurologists are in the field of neuropsychology. He worked among others with the Capgras syndrome, phantom limb pain, synesthesia, the neglect and anosognosia. Caused a stir work on temporal lobe epilepsy, in which he is a " God module " situate in the brain. He has published several popular science books, some of which are available in bookstores in German language. He has through his thrilling explanatory narrative for neurology a similar role as a reconnaissance as Oliver Sacks.

Works

  • " The Tell -tale Brain"; Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature Publishing 2011 ISBN Windmill 978-00-995-37595
  • Vilaynur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee: The blind woman who could see: Puzzling phenomena of our consciousness. 3rd edition. Rowohlt Tb, 2002 ( Original title: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind ), ISBN 978-3-4996-1381-4.
  • The Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (editor -in- chief) ISBN 0-12-227210-2
  • The Emerging Mind, 2003, ISBN 1-86197-303-9 (English: A brief journey through mind and brain Rowohlt 2005 ISBN 3-499-61987-3. . )
  • VS Ramachandran: A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness. From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. Plume, 2005, ISBN 978-0-1318-7278-3.
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