Author

Books by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

V. S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He is known for his work on phantom limbs, mirror neurons, and the neural correlates of a range of unusual neurological conditions. He has been named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine and has received numerous honorary degrees. Sandra Blakeslee is a science writer who has covered neuroscience and brain research for the New York Times for more than forty years.