The boundaries of consciousness : neurobiology and neuropathology /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005.
Description:xx, 585 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:Progress in brain research ; v. 150
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5773996
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Other authors / contributors:Laureys, Steven.
ISBN:0444518517 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • What in the world is consciousness?
  • A neuroscientific approach to consciousness
  • Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: How and what do we measure
  • Global workspace theory of consciousness: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience?
  • Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness
  • Methods for studying unconscious learning
  • Computational correlates of consciousness
  • Machine consciousness
  • Consciousness, information integration and the brain
  • Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception
  • From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness?
  • Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control
  • Visual phenomenal consciousness: A neurological guided tour
  • The mental self
  • Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retroplenial cortices: Cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousness
  • Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices
  • A reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data
  • General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness
  • Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: Studies with propofol
  • The cognitive modulation of pain: Hypnosis and placebo-induced analgesia
  • Consciousness and epilepsy: Why are patients with absence seizures absent?
  • Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzhemier's disease
  • Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia
  • Hysterical conversion and brain function
  • The out-of-body experience: Precipitation factors and neural correlates
  • Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors
  • The concept and practice of brain death
  • The minimally conscious state: Defining the borders of consciousness
  • Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage
  • Evoked potentials in severe brain injury
  • Event-related potential measures of consciousness: Two equations with three unknowns
  • Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury
  • Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state
  • Modeling the minimally conscious state: Measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities
  • The locked-in syndrome: What is it like to be conscious but paralysed and voiceless?
  • Brain-computer interfaces - the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralysed body
  • Neural plasticity and recovery of function
  • 30 Years of the vegetative state: Clinical, ethical and legal problems
  • Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: Potentials and limitations
  • Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage
  • Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: Towards a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness