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Neurochemistry of consciousness: neurotransmitters in mind
  1. Steven Rose

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.73.3.353

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      Edited by Elaine Perry, Heather Ashton, and Allan Young (Pp 346, EUR65.00). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 2002. ISBN 90-272-5156-8

      Consciousness is a portmanteau word, full of rich and different meanings: contrast Marxian, Freudian, and anaesthesiologists' use of the term. In recent years it has also become a fashionable hunting ground for neuroscientists, who are rarely troubled by such complexities. For them, consciousness is being awake rather than asleep, being reducible to awareness. Sweeping aside centuries of philosophical debate, they …

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