The neurology of consciousness : cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology /
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 ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Academic,
�2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION / Giulio Tononi & Steven Laureys
- BASICS
- 1. An overview of brain structures and their contribution to consciousness / Adam Zeman
- 2. The neurological examination of consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld & Steven Laureys
- 3. Evaluating consciousness by measuring brain function: PET, fMRI, EEG, ERP, MEG / Steven Laureys & Giulio Tononi
- 4. Consciousness and neural synchronization / Wolf Singer
- 5. Studying the neural correlates of visual consciousness / Geraint Rees
- 6. Consciousness and attention / Christof Koch
- WAKING, SLEEP AND ANESTHESIA
- 7. Conscious resting states/ Marcus Raichle
- 8. Sleep and physiological alterations of consciousness / Giulio Tononi
- 9. Waking and dreaming consciousness / Allan Hobson
- 10. Sleepwalking and other dissociated states / Claudio Bassetti
- 11. General Anesthesia / Michael Alkire
- COMA AND RELATED CONDITIONS
- 12.Coma / Wijdicks
- 13. Brain death / James Bernat
- 14. Vegetative state / Adrian Owen & Steven Laureys
- 15. Minimally conscious state / Joeseph Giacino & Nicholas Schiff
- 16. Locked-in syndrome / Steven Laureys
- 17. Dementia : to be defined
- 18. Brain computer interfaces / Andrea Kubler
- 19. Ethical issues / Joseph Fins
- SEIZURES, SPLITS, NEGLECTS, AND ASSORTED DISORDERS
- 20. Epileptic loss of consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld
- 21. Split brain / Michael Gazzaniga
- 22. Blindsight, agnosia, neglect and Capgras / Lionel Naccache
- 23. Conversion disorders / Patrick Vuillemier
- 24. Out of body experiences / Olaf Blanke
- 25. Disturbances of conscious memory and the hippocampus / Susan Corkin
- 26. Global amnesia / Adam Zeman
- 27. Consciousness and aphasia : to be defined
- CLOSING THE CIRCLE / Giulio Tononi & Steven Laureys.