'The Divided Brain

Almost everything you think you know about differences between the two sides of the brain is wrong. So why is the brain, an organ that exists only to make connections, divided and asymmetrical?

Almost everything you think you know about differences between both sides of the brain is wrong. So why is the brain, an organ that exists only to make connections, divided and asymmetrical?
Dr Iain McGilchrist will address the question above as well focusing on how, in neuroscience, the topic is of great significance for understanding the human condition.

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer who practised in London, but now lives on the Isle of Skye, where he continues to write and make a living by lecturing.

He was formerly a Consultant Psychiatrist of the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley NHS Trust in London, where he was Clinical Director of their southern sector Acute Mental Health Services. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is specially approved by the Secretary of State under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act, 1983.

He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.

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