The woman who died from laughing (Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee) 
A woman who claims to speak with God, an athlete who has lost arm but not the feeling of being able to have a young man involved in a tragic car accident convinced that the parents have been replaced by surrogates, and even in the case of the famous humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, read by hallucinations and fantastic "substitute of reality "due to the progressive loss of vision. Each of these pathological disorders is the starting point to investigate extraordinary machine that is animated and the brain in an attempt to reconstruct the architecture and operation and to explain the our intellectual predispositions or practices, our behavior and moods.
(price € 10, a publishing house Mondadori, 362 pages, publication year 1999)
A woman who claims to speak with God, an athlete who has lost arm but not the feeling of being able to have a young man involved in a tragic car accident convinced that the parents have been replaced by surrogates, and even in the case of the famous humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, read by hallucinations and fantastic "substitute of reality "due to the progressive loss of vision. Each of these pathological disorders is the starting point to investigate extraordinary machine that is animated and the brain in an attempt to reconstruct the architecture and operation and to explain the our intellectual predispositions or practices, our behavior and moods. (price € 10, a publishing house Mondadori, 362 pages, publication year 1999) 
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