VS Ramachandran

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VS Ramachandran ( Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran ; born August 10, 1951 in Madras , India ) is an Indian neurologist working in the USA . He currently lives in San Diego , California .

biography

VS Ramachandran was born in 1951 to an Indian family of diplomats and scholars in India . He graduated from Stanley Medical College in Madras, India in 1974 with a medical degree . At this point his interests were in surgery . He received his PhD in 1978 from Cambridge University , where he studied human psychophysics and neurophysiology under the direction of David Whitteridge .

Since 1998 he has held a professorship at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego , where he also teaches at the Salk Institute . He also heads the Center for Brain and Cognition .

His marriage to Diane Rogers-Ramachandran had two sons.

In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan .

Research areas

The neurologist's interests lie in the field of neuropsychology . He dealt with Capgras syndrome , phantom pain , synesthesia , neglect and anosognosia , among other things . Ramachandran invented mirror therapy for the relief of phantom pain, in which the simple mirroring of a healthy limb gives the patient the (apparent) possibility of moving the amputated limb, for example, from an imaginary uncomfortable, painful position to a more comfortable position. Ramachandran's work on the temporal lobe - epilepsy , in which he located a " God module " in the brain (see also: Neurotheology ) caused a sensation . He published several popular science books, some of which are available in German language bookshops. Due to his excitingly explanatory narrative, he has a similar status as an educator in neurology as Oliver Sacks . For Hannah Lühmann after reading the book The Woman Who Could See Tones (2013), the question arose: "What is actually so difficult about writing an entertaining book about your own neuroscientific research without pretending to be able to Explain God, the world, art and red lipstick? " Lühmann complained: "Ramachandran's book is teeming with formulations that would make the hair of any biology teacher stand on end if they came from one of his lower school students." The essence of his book is "actually a deeply anti-enlightenment, eyewashing."

Works

  • "The Tell-tale Brain" ; Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature 2011 Verlag Windmill ISBN 978-00-995-37595
  • Vilaynur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee: The Blind Woman Who Can See: Mysterious Phenomena of Our Consciousness . 3. Edition. Rowohlt Tb., 2002, ISBN 978-3-499-61381-4 (American English: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind .).
  • The Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (editor-in-chief) ISBN 0-12-227210-2
  • The Emerging Mind , 2003, ISBN 1-86197-303-9 (German: A short journey through mind and brain . Rowohlt 2005. ISBN 3-499-61987-3 )
  • VS Ramachandran: A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness . From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. Plume, 2005, ISBN 978-0-13-187278-3 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Men & Women of Science: QS, Thomson / Gale, 2003, p. 40, ISBN 9780787665234
  2. ↑ Steve Klimchak: The I in the snail shell. (Interview VS Ramachandran) In: Brain & Mind. No. 3, 2003, pp. 68-69
  3. ↑ Vilayanur Ramachandran, Distinguished Professor UC San Diego, Department of Psychology
  4. ^ Adjunct Faculty Salk Institute
  5. ^ Homepage of the Center for Brain and Cognition
  6. ^ Brain Games. The Marco Polo of neuroscience The New Yorker, May 11, 2009
  7. ^ Homepage of Ramachandran at the University of California
  8. ↑ FAZ No. 70, March 23, 2013, p. 32.
  9. ↑ FAZ No. 70, March 23, 2013, p. 32.
  10. ↑ FAZ No. 70, March 23, 2013, p. 32.
  11. ↑ BBC Reith Lectures 2003
personal data
SURNAME Ramachandran, VS
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramachandran, Vilayanur Subramanian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Madras , India