Ons briljante brein

By Steven Laureys

2013

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De Vlaamse neuroloog Steven Laureys is een wereldautoriteit in de kennis van hoe ons brein werkt. Hij is kandidaat-Nobelprijswinnaar voor zijn baanbrekend onderzoek naar het bewustzijn. In dit boek beantwoordt hij vele wonderlijke vragen over de krachten en de grenzen van ons briljante brein. Wat IS dat, bewustzijn? Hoe werken onze hersenen en gaan we ooit gedachten kunnen lezen? Hoe kunnen we weten of comapatiënten nog bewust zijn en hoe kunnen we met hen communiceren? Wat is de bijna-dood-ervaring? Wat is hersendood, wat kunnen we met hypnose, welke delen van de hersenen dienen waarvoor? * Auteur is wereldautoriteit en kandidaat-Nobelprijswinnaar * Vele vragen over de werking van ons brein en ons bewustzijn beantwoord * Vlot en pittig geschreven, bevattelijk voor iedereen!

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Steven Laureys

Author · 5 books

Neurologist Steven Laureys MD PhD FEAN is internationally recognized for his clinical and scientific studies of severe brain injury and neural plasticity. Prof Dr Laureys is founding director of the GIGA Consciousness Research Unit and founder of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège, Belgium, head of the Brain Centre of the Liège University Hospital, Research Director at the Belgian Fund of Scientific Research and co-director of the Hangzhou International Consciousness Institute in China. He currently is invited professor at the CERVO Brain Research Centre at Laval University, Canada. With his team, he explores the human mind in health and disease using the latest brain imaging technologies and wearables assessing coma and related states, concussion, near-death experiences, anesthesia, dreaming and meditation. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and ten scientific books including ‘The Neurology of Consciousness’. Dr Laureys is a fellow of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and recipient of numerous awards (e.g., from the European Academy of Neurology, Max Planck Institute, Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and Society of Cognitive Neuroscience). He is co-founder of the International Mind Care Foundation and appreciated for his interventions in the media, as bestselling author and as a keynote speaker on the power of the mind.