Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience :Brain and Mind
焦傳金教授 Professor Dr. Chiao.
焦教授的通識一直是許多學生的熱門通識之一，而我身為大一新鮮人能有幸抽到加簽，實在是很開心。
第一堂課教授講了很多對於腦的大致概念與推薦書籍，我最有印象的是清醒開腦，並在手術室拉琴的片段。由於追過一部韓劇「Doctors」。劇中有個神經外科手術便是替射箭選手清醒開腦，並直接在手術室射箭，確認肌肉與腦波的狀況。也是看到焦教授的投影片，才知道原來劇中的故事有可能是真的，因為劇中醫生說腦本身沒有痛覺因此在顱內動手術是不用昏迷麻醉的。
再來則是最主軸的觀念:腦與心智，如果換了別人的腦，是不是就不是自己了呢?這又與我看過一本東野圭吾作家所著的「變身」，書中提到右腦中槍的患者因移植了犯罪者的大腦，開始有精神錯亂與心智交錯的症狀，更變得越來越不像自己。或許我上完焦教授的課程，就可以更深入體會這本書的意義。
It’s my honor to enroll the general education class while Dr. Chiao’s class is always so popular.
The theme that made me great deep impression was the ‘’Awake Craniotomy’’ surgery. I have watched a Korea drama called ‘’Doctors’’, the surgeon had performed an awake craniotomy in a Olympic player’s brain. They test her nerves’ condition awaken of controlling the muscle of hands in order to check whether the surgery is successful. Until I listened Dr, Chiao’s class, in dawned on me that the surgery is performable in the reality.
Furthermore, the main topic of the class: Brain and Mind, is talking about the connection between our brain and mind. Is it possible that we are not who we are when we have the brain which is not belong to us? It recalled me a book, Hensin, which I have read that was written by Higashino Keigo. It told a male tha this right brain was shoot by the criminal, however, in order to save his life, doctors transplanted the criminal’s brain to his. While he found he was not like who he was before after the surgery.
Maybe after I finish Dr.Chiao’s classes, I can understand more knowledge about human’s brain.
