Human Brain Function

Overview

This updated second edition provides the state of the art perspective of the theory, practice and application of modern non-invasive imaging methods employed in exploring the structural and functional architecture of the normal and diseased human brain. Like the successful first edition, it is written by members of the Functional Imaging Laboratory - the Wellcome Trust funded London lab that has contributed much to the development of brain imaging methods and their application in the last decade. This book should...

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Overview

This updated second edition provides the state of the art perspective of the theory, practice and application of modern non-invasive imaging methods employed in exploring the structural and functional architecture of the normal and diseased human brain. Like the successful first edition, it is written by members of the Functional Imaging Laboratory - the Wellcome Trust funded London lab that has contributed much to the development of brain imaging methods and their application in the last decade. This book should excite and intrigue anyone interested in the new facts about the brain gained from neuroimaging and also those who wish to participate in this area of brain science.

* Represents an almost entirely new book from 1st edition, covering the rapid advances in methods and in understanding of how human brains are organized
* Reviews major advances in cognition, perception, emotion and action
* Introduces novel experimental designs and analytical techniques made possible with fMRI, including event-related designs and non-linear analysis

Audience: Neuroscientists, neurologists, cognitive scientists, neurophysiologists, and neuropsychiatrists.

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Editorial Reviews

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Twenty-five contributors to 19 chapters on the present state of knowledge about human brain functioning cover: principles and methods, functional anatomy, and future perspectives in brain mapping and imagining. The volume concludes with a philosophical coda on the future of imaging neuroscience, with the intriguing final sentence: "For those readers who are dismayed not to have found one sentence in this final chapter containing the word consciousness,' here it is!" (Consciousness an entry in the index spanning acoustic codes to working memory.) Includes b&w and several color illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780122648410
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
  • Publication date: 11/28/2003
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 500
  • Product dimensions: 8.60 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Authors
Introduction
Pt. 1 Imaging Neuroscience - Brain Systems
1 The Motor System 5
2 Motor Control of Breathing 33
3 Perceptual Construction 47
4 Auditory Function 61
5 Somesthetic Function 75
6 The Cerebral Basis of Functional Recovery 105
7 Applied Computational Neuroanatomy in Disease 125
8 Plasticity in Cochlear Implant Patients 149
9 Functional Specialisation in the Visual Brain: Probable and Improbable Visual Areas 161
10 Insights into Visual Consciousness 171
11 Processing Systems as Perceptual Systems 179
12 The Asynchrony of Visual Perception 193
13 The Chronoarchitecture of the Human Brain: Functional Anatomy Based on Natural Brain Dynamics and the Principle of Functional Independence 201
14 Unilateral Neglect and the Neuroanatomy of Visuospatial Attention 231
15 Mechanisms of Attention 245
16 The Neural Correlates of Consciousness 269
17 Functional Imaging of Cognitive Psychopharmacology 303
18 Mechanisms of Control 329
19 Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Emotion 365
20 Central Representation of Autonomic States 397
21 Reciprocal Links Between Emotion and Attention 419
22 Brain Systems Mediating Reward 445
23 Implicit Memory 471
24 Explicit Memory 487
25 Prefrontal Cortex and Long-Term Memory Encoding and Retrieval 499
26 An Overview of Speech Comprehension and Production 517
27 The Feature-Based Model of Semantic Memory 533
28 The Functional Anatomy of Reading 547
29 The Neurocognitive Basis of Developmental Dyslexia 563
30 Detecting Language Activations with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 583
Pt. 2 Imaging Neuroscience - Theory and Analysis
31 Experimental Design and Statistical Parametric Mapping 599
32 Rigid Body Registration 635
33 Spatial Normalization Using Basis Functions 655
34 High-Dimensional Image Warping 673
35 Image Segmentation 695
36 Morphometry 707
37 The General Linear Model 725
38 Contrasts and Classical Inference 761
39 Variance Components 781
40 Analysis of fMRI Time Series 793
41 Haemodynamic Modelling 823
42 Random-Effects Analysis 843
43 Hierarchical Models 851
44 Introduction to Random Field Theory 867
45 Developments in Random Field Theory 881
46 Nonparametric Permutation Tests for Functional Neuroimaging 887
47 Classical and Bayesian Inference 911
48 Functional Integration in the Brain 971
49 Functional Connectivity 999
50 Effective Connectivity 1019
51 Volterra Kernels and Effective Connectivity 1049
52 Dynamic Causal Modelling 1063
53 Mathematical Appendix 1091
Postscript: Mapping Brain Mappers: An Ethnographic Coda 1105
Index 1119
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