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The rag and bone shop, how we make memories and memories make us, Veronica O'Keane

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The rag and bone shop, how we make memories and memories make us, Veronica O'Keane

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rag and bone shop

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Veronica O'Keane

Sub title

how we make memories and memories make us

Summary

A leading psychiatrist shows how the mysteries of the brain are illuminated at the extremes of human experience. A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. A process that shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behaviour and feeding our imagination. How do our brains store, and then conjure up, past experiences? As a practising psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane has spent many years observing what happens when this process is disrupted by mental illness and the experiences of her patients have provided startling insights into how memory determines how we function in the world. Drawing on these poignant cases and much more, from literature and fairy tales, she uses the latest neuroscientific research to illuminate the role of psychiatry today and the extraordinary puzzle that is our human brain

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