Interdisciplinary courses and research areas such as cognitive science are popular in Germany. This discipline, long established in English-speaking countries, consists of neurosciences, biology, psychology, philosophy, and computer science, among others, and deals primarily with cognition and thought processes.
The Kortizes Institute for Popular Science Discourse in Nuremberg regularly organizes symposiums on issues in the cognitive sciences, where experts from various disciplines gather to discuss. This colloquium is also the basis for the work “Where does the mind sit?” , which deals with the mind, the brain, and, in a broader sense, consciousness and its physical counterpart. Edited by Helmut Fink and Rainer Rosenzweig, it summarizes the current state of research from the perspective of individual disciplines in ten chapters.
Many scientific chapters deal with specific problems. The contribution of Herta Flor and Robin Pickrater-Bodman, for example, addresses the question of how to treat phantom limb pain in people who have had amputations. These symptoms can be reduced by the so-called mirror therapy, in which the mirror is positioned in such a way that the patient feels that he still has both ends.
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