Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain - Rilegato

Trimble, Michael

 
9780199693184: Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain
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ISBN 10: 0199693188 ISBN 13: 9780199693184
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2012

Sinossi

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which move us to sadness and tears? This question forms the backdrop to Michael Trimble's discussion of emotional crying, its physiology, and its evolutionary implications.

His exploration examines the connections with other distinctively human features: the development of language, self-consciousness, religious practices, and empathy. Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the brain have uncovered unique human characteristics; mirror neurones, for example, explain why we unconsciously imitate actions and behaviour. Whereas Nietzsche argued that artistic tragedy was born with the ancient Greeks, Trimble places its origins far earlier. His neurophysiological and evolutionary insights shed fascinating light onto this enigmatic part of our humanity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Professor Trimble is emeritus professor of Behavioural Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. His research for many years has been on the behavioural consequences of neurological disorders, especially epilepsy and movement disorders. He has a lifelong research interest in neuroanatomy, hence his ability to explore the neuroanatomical basis of crying. However, he is also a psychiatrist with much clinical experience of mood disorders, and had investigated the latter in patients using neurological techniques, such as brain imaging. He is the author of The Soul in the Brain (Johns Hopkins, 2007).

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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199693188
ISBN 13 
9780199693184
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
240
Contatto del produttore
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9780198713494: Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain

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ISBN 10:  0198713495 ISBN 13:  9780198713494
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2014
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