Author

Books by V. S. Ramachandran

V. S. Ramachandran is a neurologist and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UC San Diego. He was born in India, trained in medicine at Madras University, and completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is best known for his work on phantom limbs, body image, and mirror neurons, and for developing the mirror box therapy for phantom limb pain. His earlier book Phantoms in the Brain covers similar territory and is often read alongside this one. He has received honorary doctorates from multiple universities and has been named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine.