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Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology
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Edited By
Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium
Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, USA
Description
Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to
study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states,
etc. Many of these studies are very much in the public eye because of their relationship to controversies about coma patients (e.g. Terry
Schiavo case in the US recently), and the relationship to one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions
of humankind.
This is the first book to summarize our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human
consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients. The selected contributors are all outstanding
authors and undisputed leaders in their field.
Audience
Researchers and graduate students in:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Neurology
Neuroscience
Translational Neuroscience
Neurology
Psychiatry
Neuropsychology
Cognitive Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Contents
Preface: Steven Laureys and Giulio Tononi
1. Consciousness: an overview of the phenomenon and of its possible neural basis
Antonio Damasio
and Kaspar Meyer
2. The neurological examination of consciousness: Hal Blumenfeld
3. Evaluating consciousness by measuring brain function:
Steven Laureys, Joy Hirsch, Boris Kotchobey & Giulio Tononi
4. Consciousness and neural synchronization: Wolf Singer
5. Neural correlates
of visual consciousness: Geraint Rees
6. The relationship between consciousness and attention: Naotsugu Tsuchiya1 and Christoph Koch
WAKING, SLEEP AND ANESTHESIA
7. Intrinsic Brain Activity and Consciousness: Marcus Raichle and Abraham Z. Snyder
8. Sleep and dreaming:
Giulio Tononi
9. Sleepwalking: Claudio Bassetti
10. General Anesthesia and Consciousness: Michael Alkire
COMA AND RELATED CONDITIONS
11. Coma: Bryan Young
12. Brain death: James
Bernat
13. The Assessment of Conscious Awareness in the Vegetative State: Adrian Owen, Nicholas Schiff & Steven Laureys
14. The Minimally
Conscious State: Clinical Features, Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Implications: Joseph Giacino & Nicholas Schiff
15. Locked-in syndrome:
Steven Laureys
16. Dementia : Pietro Pietrini, Paulo Nichelli & Eric Salmon
17. Brain-computer interfaces for communication in paralysed
patients and implications for disorders of consciousness: Andrea Kubler
18. Neuroethics and Disorders of Consciousness: A Pragmatic
Approach to Neuro-palliative Care: Joseph Fins
SEIZURES, SPLITS, NEGLECTS, AND ASSORTED DISORDERS
19. Epilepsy and Consciousness: Hal
Blumenfeld
20. The Left Hemisphere Does Not Miss the Right Hemisphere: Michael Gazzaniga and Michael B. Miller
21. Visual consciousness:
an updated neurological tour: Lionel Naccache
22. The neurophysiology of self-awareness disorders in conversion hysteria: Patrick Vuillemier
23. Leaving body and life behind : Out-of-body and near-death experience: Olaf Blanke & Sebastian Dieguez
24. The hippocampus, memory,
and consciousness: Bradley R. Postle
25. Syndromes of Transient Amnesia: Adam Zeman & Chris Butler
26. Consciousness and aphasia :
Paulo Nichelli
27. Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark: Pietro Pietrini, Maurice Ptito, Ron Kupers
28. The Neurology
of Consciousness: An Overview: Giulio Tononi & Steven Laureys
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 440 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374168-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-374168-8
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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