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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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| 1 Development, Birth, And Parental Care |
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The Subtle Interaction Between Mother and Child at Birth |
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A Difficult Birth as the First Symptom of a Developmental Brain Disorder |
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The Importance of a Stimulating Environment for Early Brain Development |
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| 2 Threats To The Fetal Brain In The "Safety" Of The Womb |
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Developmental Brain Disorders Caused by Environmental Factors |
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Developmental Brain Disorders Caused by Addictive Substances and Medication |
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The Short-Term Outlook of the Unborn Child |
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Sawing Off Your Own Leg: Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a Bizarre Developmental Disorder |
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| 3 Sexual Differentiation Of The Brain In The Womb |
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Gender-Based Differences in Behavior |
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Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Bisexuality |
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Homosexuality in the Animal Kingdom |
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Public Response to My Research into Sex Differences in the Brain |
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| 4 Puberty, Love, And Sexual Behavior |
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Disorders of the Brain and Sexuality |
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| 5 Hypothalamus: Survival, Hormones, And Emotions |
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Hormone Production by the Hypothalamus and Streams of Urine |
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Surviving Without a Hypothalamus |
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122 | (3) |
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Narcolepsy: Weak with Laughter |
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Fits of Laughter Without Emotion |
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Anorexia Nervosa Is a Disease of the Brain |
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| 6 Addictive Substances |
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Ecstasy: Brain Damage After Pleasure |
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Substance Abuse by Politicians |
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| 7 The Brain And Consciousness |
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Coma and Related Conditions |
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Brain Structures Crucial for Consciousness |
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The Importance of Functional Links Between Brain Structures for Consciousness |
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Illusions and Loss of Self-Consciousness |
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"Filling In" Missing Information |
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Notions About the Mechanisms of Consciousness |
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| 8 Aggression |
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Aggression, Brain Disorders, and Prison |
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| 9 Autism |
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Daniel Tam met, an Autistic Savant |
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Autism, a Developmental Disorder |
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| 10 Schizophrenia And Other Reasons For Hallucinations |
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Schizophrenia, a Disease of All Ages and Cultures |
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Schizophrenia, a Developmental Brain Disorder |
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Hallucinations Due to a Lack of Stimuli |
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| 11 Repair And Electric Stimulation |
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Age-Related Blindness: Macular Degeneration |
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Serendipity: A Lucky Accident |
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Brain Stimulation and Happiness |
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Transplantation of Fetal Brain Tissue |
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Spontaneous Repair of Brain Damage |
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| 12 The Brain And Sports |
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Sex and the Olympic Games |
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| 13 Moral Behavior |
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Prefrontal Cortex: Initiative, Planning, Speech, Personality, and Moral Behavior |
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Moral Behavior: The Human in the Animal |
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Unconscious Moral Behavior |
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What Nature Teaches Us About a Better Society |
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| 14 Memory |
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Kandel's Research into Memory and the Collective Amnesia of the Austrians |
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The Path to Long-Term Memory |
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The Implicit Memory in the Cerebellum |
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| 15 Neurotheology: The Brain And Religion |
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Why Are So Many People Religious? |
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The Evolutionary Advantage of Religion |
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A Better World Without Religion? |
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Unclean Mussels and Women |
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Praying for Another: A Placebo for Yourself |
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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Messages from God |
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Public Reactions to My Views on Religion |
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| 16 There Isn't More Between Heaven And Earth |
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Pseudoscientific Explanations of Near-Death Experiences |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Sometimes More Than a Placebo |
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| 17 Free Will, A Pleasant Illusion |
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The Brain as a Giant, Unconscious Computer |
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Free Will and Brain Disorders |
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| 18 Alzheimer's Disease |
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Aging of the Brain, Alzheimer's Disease, and Other Forms of Dementia |
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Alzheimer's: The Stages of Deterioration |
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"Use It or Lose It": Reactivating Neurons in Alzheimer's Disease |
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Alzheimer's and the Right Moment for Choosing to End One's Life |
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| 19 Death |
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The Magic of Life and Death |
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Dr. Deijman and Black Jan |
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Civic Disintegration Course: Dead Obvious |
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Herbs for Long Life After Death |
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| 20 Evolution |
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Negotiation and Increase in Brain Size |
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The Evolution of the Brain |
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| 21 Conclusions |
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| Acknowledgments |
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