Uta Frith

TWO HEADS

The Story of How Brains Work Together

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After growing up in warring countries, Dame Uta and Christopher Frith met at university and have lived and worked together ever since. As scientists, they have shaped the way we think about the mind and the brain, overturning established beliefs about autism, schizophrenia, dyslexia and consciousness.In Two Heads they draw from their life's work to take the reader on a brilliantly illustrated journey through neuroscience. Spanning the birth of the field in the twentieth century, its place in the Friths' careers and the huge strides that have been made in the last half-century, Two Heads also introduces us to the new research on the horizon: t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Frith, Alex / Frith, Chris

ISBN: 978-1-5266-0155-1
EAN: 9781526601551
Produktnummer: 34680626
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 352 S.

Über den Autor

Two Heads is the work of four heads put together: Uta Frith, Christopher Frith, Alex Frith and Daniel Locke.Uta Frith, an expert of both autism and dyslexia, has been ranked one of the most eminent research psychologists of the modern era and currently serves as the President of the British Science Association.Christopher Frith, psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, has been ranked among the ten most influential brain scientists of the modern era. He is a pioneer in the use of brain imaging, and was a senior member of the team that discovered enlargement of the hippocampus in the brains of London taxi drivers.Their son, Alex Frith, is a publisher and writer at Usborne Publishing.Daniel Locke is a Brighton-based artist and comics creator who has worked with Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust and the National Trust.