The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology
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.
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The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology
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.
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The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

by Steven Laureys PhD (Editor)
The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

by Steven Laureys PhD (Editor)

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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.

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ISBN-13: 9780080476209
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 06/09/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 632
File size: 15 MB
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What in the world is consciousness? Chapter 2: A neuroscientific approach to consciousness Chapter 3: Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: how and what do we measure? Chapter 4: Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience Chapter 5: Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness Chapter 6: Methods for studying unconscious learning Chapter 7: Computational correlates of consciousness Chapter 8: Machine consciousness Chapter 9: Consciousness, information integration, and the brain Chapter 10: Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception Chapter 11: From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness? Chapter 12: Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control Chapter 13: Visual phenomenal consciousness: a neurological guided tour Chapter 14: The mental self Chapter 15: Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retrosplenial cortices: cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousness Chapter 16: Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices: a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data Chapter 17: General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness Chapter 18: Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: studies with propofol Chapter 19: The cognitive modulation of pain: hypnosis- and placebo-induced analgesia Chapter 20: Consciousness and epilepsy: why are patients with absence seizures absent? Chapter 21: Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzheimer's disease Chapter 22: Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia Chapter 23: Hysterical conversion and brain function Chapter 24: The out-of body experience: precipitating factors and neural correlates Chapter 25: Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors Chapter 26: The concept and practice of brain death Chapter 27: The minimally conscious state: defining the borders of consciousness Chapter 28: Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage Chapter 29: Evoked potentials in severe brain injury Chapter 30: Event-related potential measures of consciousness: two equations with three unknowns Chapter 31: Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury Chapter 32: Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state Chapter 33: Modeling the minimally conscious state: measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities Chapter 34: The locked-in syndrome : what is it like to be conscious but paralyzed and voiceless? Chapter 35: Brain-computer interfaces — the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralyzed body Chapter 36: Neural plasticity and recovery of function Chapter 37: Thirty years of the vegetative state: clinical, ethical and legal problems Chapter 38: Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: potentials and limitations Chapter 39: Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage Chapter 40: Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: toward a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness

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