Psychophysiology

Psychophysiology: Today and Tomorrow focuses on the most important theoretical aspects and practical outlets of the problem, as well as the main potentialities and interests of psychophysiology. Organized into 23 chapters, this book begins with the identification of component systems for syntax, verbal memory, focusing attention, and a system common to sequencing motor movements and phonemic discrimination. Subsequent chapter elucidates neurophysiological correlates of mental processes in man. Other chapters explore relations between electrical brain rhythms and behavior; brain exploration in psychophysiology; potentialities of neurophysiology in study and cure of mental disorders in epilepsy; and structural analysis of non-verbal thinking in man. The neuropharmacological analysis of the brain's functional organization in processes of formation and retrieval of memory engrams; role of neuropeptides in synapsomodification; and levels of functioning of transmitter systems and epileptogenesis are also explained.

Part I Direct Contact with the Human Brain

Brain Organization for Language: Identification of Component Systems for Syntax, Verbal Memory, Focusing Attention and a System Common to Sequencing Motor Movements and Phonemic Discrimination

Neurophysiological Correlates of Mental Processes in Man

Application of the Post-Stimulus-Time Histograms to the Analysis of Discharge Patterns in Neuronal Populations of the Human Brain during Intellectual-Mnestic Activity

Relations Between Electrical Brain Rhythms and Behavior

Infraslow Processes of the Human Brain and Organization of Mental Activity

Brain Responses Related to Orienting, Expectancy and Motor Control

The Problems of Stereotaxic Neurology and Neuropsychology

Brain Exploration in Psychophysiology

Psychophysiology and Stereotaxis

Electrical Stimulation of Limbic Brain in Psychiatric Patients

Effects of Thalamic Surgery on Cognitive Functions in Man

Electrophysiological Study of the Human Amygdala

Potentialities of Neurophysiology in Study and Cure of Mental Disorders in Epilepsy

Part II Indirect Contact with the Human Brain and Animal Experiments

Psychophysiology and the Study of Protocritic Processes

Structural Analysis of Non-Verbal Thinking in Man

Hemispheric Differences in the Perception of Neutral and Emotional Stimuli

The Physiology of Brain Signal Evaluation and the Psychology of Perception

Event Related Desynchronization during Sensorimotor Cortical Activation

Neuropharmacological Analysis of the Brain's Functional Organization in Processes of Formation and Retrieval of Memory Engrams

The Basis of Long-Term Memory: Role of Neuropeptides in Synapsomodification

Levels of Functioning of Transmitter Systems and Epileptogenesis

Behavioral Changes in Animals on Creation of Hyperactive Determinant Structures in Some Portions of the Central Nervous System

Effect of Social Deprivation on RNA and Membrane Protein Synthesis in Rat Brain Tissue: Probability of Control Function of Calcium

Index