The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and NeuropathologySteven Laureys Elsevier, 2006 M08 24 - 632 páginas Consciousness is one of the most significant scientific problems today. Renewed interest in the nature of consciousness - a phenomenon long considered not to be scientifically explorable, as well as increasingly widespread availability of multimodal functional brain imaging techniques (EEG, ERP, MEG, fMRI and PET), now offer the possibility of detailed, integrated exploration of the neural, behavioral, and computational correlates of consciousness. The present volume aims to confront the latest theoretical insights in the scientific study of human consciousness with the most recent behavioral, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, pharmacological and neuropathological data on brain function in altered states of consciousness such as: brain death, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, locked-in syndrome, dementia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, hysteria, general anesthesia, sleep, hypnosis, and hallucinations. The interest of this is threefold. First, patients with altered states of consciousness continue to represent a major clinical problem in terms of clinical assessment of consciousness and daily management. Second, the exploration of brain function in altered states of consciousness represents a unique lesional approach to the scientific study of consciousness and adds to the worldwide effort to identify the "neural correlate of consciousness". Third, new scientific insights in this field have major ethical and social implications regarding our care for these patients. |
Contenido
1 What in the world is consciousness? | 1 |
2 A neuroscientific approach to consciousness | 11 |
how and what do we measure? | 25 |
toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience | 45 |
5 Skill corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness | 55 |
6 Methods for studying unconscious learning | 69 |
7 Computational correlates of consciousness | 81 |
8 Machine consciousness | 99 |
23 Hysterical conversion and brain function | 309 |
precipitating factors and neural correlates | 331 |
25 Neardeath experiences in cardiac arrest survivors | 351 |
26 The concept and practice of brain death | 369 |
defining the borders of consciousness | 381 |
28 Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage | 397 |
29 Evoked potentials in severe brain injury | 415 |
two equations with three unknowns | 427 |
9 Consciousness information integration and the brain | 109 |
10 Dynamics of thalamocortical network oscillations and human perception | 127 |
11 From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness? | 143 |
12 Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control | 173 |
a neurological guided tour | 185 |
14 The mental self | 197 |
cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousness | 205 |
a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data | 219 |
17 General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness | 229 |
studies with propofol | 245 |
hypnosis and placeboinduced analgesia | 251 |
why are patients with absence seizures absent? | 271 |
21 Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzheimers disease | 287 |
22 Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia | 299 |
31 Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury | 445 |
32 Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state | 457 |
measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities | 473 |
what is it like to be conscious but paralyzed and voiceless? | 495 |
35 Braincomputer interfaces the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralyzed body | 513 |
36 Neural plasticity and recovery of function | 527 |
clinical ethical and legal problems | 537 |
potentials and limitations | 545 |
39 Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage | 555 |
toward a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness | 565 |
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Color Plates | 587 |
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The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology Steven Laureys Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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