The boundaries of consciousness : neurobiology and neuropathology /: neurobiology and neuropathology. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Laureys.
• Other Names: Laureys, Steven; Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
• Contents: What in the world is consciousness / A. Zeman -- A neuroscientific approach to consciousness / S.A. Greenfield and T.F.T. Collins -- Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: how and what do we measure? / J. Hirsch -- Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience / B.J. Baars -- Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness / J. Kevin O'Regan, E. Myin, and A. Noë -- Methods for studying unconscious learning / A. Destrebecqz and P. Peigneux -- Computational correlates of consciousness / A. Cleeremans -- Machine consciousness / I. Aleksander -- Consciousness, information integration, and the brain / G. Tononi -- Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception / U. Ribary -- From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness? / E.R. John -- Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control / M.I. Posner -- Visual phenomenal consciousness: a neurological guided tour / L. Naccache -- The mental self / H.C. Lou, M. Nowak, and T.W. Kjaer -- Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retrosplenial cortices: cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousness / B.A. Vogt and S. Laureys -- Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices: a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data / P. Maquet [and others] -- General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness / M.T. Alkire and J. Miller -- Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: studies with propofol / P. Fiset, G. Plourde, and S.B. Backman -- The cognitive modulation of pain: hypnosis- and placebo-induced analgesia / R. Kupers, M.-E. Faymonville, and S. Laureys -- Consciousness and epilepsy: why are patients with absence seizures absent? / H. Blumenfeld -- Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzheimer's disease / E. Salmon [and others] -- Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia / T.T.J. Kircher and R. Thienel -- Hysterical conversion and brain function / P. Vuilleumier -- The out-of-body experience: precipitation factors and neural correlates / S. Bünning and O. Blanke -- Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors / C.C. French -- The concept and practice of brain death / J.L. Bernat -- The minimally conscious state: defining the borders of consciousness / J.T. Giacino -- Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage / S. Majerus [and others] -- Evoked potentials in severe brain injury / J.-M. Guérit -- Event-related potential measures of consciousness: two equations with three unknowns / B. Kotchoubey -- Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury / D.I. Graham [and others] -- Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state / A.M. Owen [and others] -- Modeling the minimally conscious state: measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities / N.D. Schiff -- The locked-in syndrome: what is it like to be conscious but paralysed and voiceless? / S. Laureys [and others] -- Brain-computer interfaces--the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralysed body / A. Kübler and N. Neumann -- Neural plasticity and recovery of function / N.S. Ward -- Thirty years of the vegetative state: clinical, ethical, and legal problems / B. Jennett -- Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: potentials and limitations / C. Petersen and M. Bullinger -- Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage / J.-L. Vincent -- Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: towards a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness / J.J. Fins.
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam Boston : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 585 pages, [24] pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 612.82; Consciousness; Nervous system -- Diseases; Brain -- Diseases; Neurobiology; Consciousness; Consciousness Disorders; Neurobiology; Conscience -- Congrès; Système nerveux -- Maladies -- Congrès; Cerveau -- Maladies -- Congrès; Neurobiologie -- Congrès; MEDICAL -- Neuroscience; PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology; Brain -- Diseases; Consciousness; Nervous system -- Diseases; Neurobiology; Bewustzijn; Neurobiologie; Neuropathologie; Congresses; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080476209; 0080476201; 0444518517; 9780444518514
• Related ISBNs: 0444528768; 9780444528766
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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