"Grey Matters" Discussion of three books, examining what mental disorders reveal about the brain’s delicate equilibrium with the environment at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 3rd August 2012

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Seminar Halls - I, II & III, Conference Block, Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : Book Discussion Group 'Grey Matters' Dr Rakesh K. Chadda, President, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry; Dr (Brig) Sudarsanan, former Head of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College; and Dr Pulkit Sharma, Clinical Psychologist, VIMHANS Hospital, discuss The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran (2010); The Woman who Changed her Brain by Barbara 
Arrowsmith-Young (2012); and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman (2011).
Authors Arrowsmith-Young and Eagleman will take part in the discussion online.

Chair: Dr Shayama Chona, President, Tamana

Discussion of three books, examining what mental disorders reveal about the brain’s delicate equilibrium with the environment; narrating how a woman challenged by logic and language as a child devised mental exercises to rewire her brain (the Arrowsmith programme); and exploring the role of the unconscious in assembling a coherent picture of reality and in our moral conduct

Collaboration: Random House

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