Back/Retour (Scientific
committee/comité Scientifique) (Speakers/Conférenciers)
MD, PhD & neurobiologist
Nobel Price in Medicine
Director
of the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California (USA)
Elected Foreign Associate to the Academy of Sciences June 19, 1978
(Human Biology and Medical Sciences).
AREAS OF EXPERTISE/THEMATIQUE
The biology
of consciousness based on the theory of neuronal group selection (Neural
Darwinism) This theory is grounded in the theory of evolution and developmental
events.
La biologie de la conscience fondée sur la Théorie de la Sélection
des Groupes de Neurones (Darwinisme neuronal). Cette théorie est fondée
sur la théorie de l'évolution et du développement.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Neural
Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection –
Basic Books, 1987
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
– Basic Books, 1989
The Biology of Consciousness (Biologie de la Conscience).
Editions Odile Jacob,1992 Re-edited in 2000 in édition
Poches
(How Matter Becomes Consciousness)(Comment la matière devient
conscience) (written with Giulio Tononi) Editions Odile Jacob
2000
PUBLICATIONS
Tononi G, Edelman GM.Schizophrenia and the mechanisms of conscious integration. Brain Res Rev. 2000 Mar;31(2-3):391-400.
Edelman GM. Building a picture of the brain. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1999 Jun 30;882:68-89; discussion 128-34.