The Orbitofrontal Cortex

by Edmund Rolls

Overview

'The Orbitofrontal Cortex' explores a part of the brain that is important in human emotion, pleasure, decision-making, valuation, and personality. In ten chapters the book describes:

DT The OFC's connections;
DT Its neuron level neurophysiology which is essential for understanding what information is represented in the orbitofrontal cortex;
DT Functional neuroimaging of the orbitofrontal cortex;
DT How it relates to the previous and succeeding areas in brain processing;
DT The effects of damage to the orbitofrontal cortex which provides important evidence about its functions;
DT How the orbitofrontal cortex is involved in psychiatric disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, and autism;
DT How and what the orbitofrontal cortex computes;
DT Future directions in understanding the functions of the orbitofrontal cortex in health and disease.

The book is unique in providing a coherent multidisciplinary approach to understanding the functions of one of the most interesting regions of the human brain, in both health and in disease, including depression

The Orbitofrontal Cortex will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychology, psychiatry, biology, animal behaviour, economics, and philosophy, from the undergraduate level upwards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198845997
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/05/2019
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience

Professor Edmund T. Rolls performs full-time research at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, and at the University of Warwick, and has performed research and teaching for many years as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and as Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the orbitofrontal cortex2. Orbitofrontal cortex: anatomy and connections3. Orbitofrontal cortex processing: neurophysiology and neuroimaging4. Orbitofrontal cortex damage effects in humans and other primates5. Orbitofrontal cortex output pathways: cingulate cortex, basal ganglia, and dopamine6. Orbitofrontal cortex and emotion7. The orbitofrontal cortex, depression, and other mental disorders8. The rodent orbitofrontal cortex9. Orbitofrontal cortex computations in a systemslevel perspective10. Synthesis: the Roles of the Orbitofrontal Cortex