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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: neurology of consciousness
    sub title: cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology
  name:
    name part: Laureys, Steven.
  name:
    name part: Tononi, Giulio.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nl
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states, etc. Many of these studies are very much in the public eye because of their relationship to controversies about coma patients (e.g. Terry Schiavo case in the US recently), and the relationship to one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions of humankind. This is the first book to summarize our current understanding of the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of human consciousness by emphasizing a lesional approach offered via the study of neurological patients. The selected contributors are all outstanding authors and undisputed leaders in their field. - The first major book on the Neurology of Consciousness, i.e. on the study of brain damages and disease states that lead to varying levels of disturbances in human consciousness (vegetative, coma, minimally conscious states, etc) - Structured, illustrated, and priced to be attractive to a wide market, including students in Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry etc - Articles from the main researchers in the field, including Christof Koch, Marcus Raichle, Allan Hobson, Nicholas Schiff, Joseph Fins, Michael Gazzaniga, Lionel Naccache - Unique and comprehensive in its focus - Of great interest in the ethical discussion of coma cases, includes a chapter on the ethics by JJ Fins - Of great interest to anybody thinking about consciousness as one of the major philosophical, sociological, political, and religious questions of our time.
  table of contents: INTRODUCTION / Giulio Tononi & Steven Laureys -- BASICS -- 1.An overview of brain structures and their contribution to consciousness / Adam Zeman -- 2.The neurological examination of consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld & Steven Laureys -- 3.Evaluating consciousness by measuring brain function: PET, fMRI, EEG, ERP, MEG / Steven Laureys & Giulio Tononi -- 4.Consciousness and neural synchronization / Wolf Singer -- 5.Studying the neural correlates of visual consciousness / Geraint Rees -- 6.Consciousness and attention / Christof Koch -- WAKING, SLEEP AND ANESTHESIA -- 7.Conscious resting states/ Marcus Raichle -- 8.Sleep and physiological alterations of consciousness / Giulio Tononi -- 9.Waking and dreaming consciousness / Allan Hobson -- 10.Sleepwalking and other dissociated states / Claudio Bassetti -- 11.General Anesthesia / Michael Alkire -- COMA AND RELATED CONDITIONS -- 12.Coma / Wijdicks -- 13.Brain death / James Bernat -- 14.Vegetative state / Adrian Owen & Steven Laureys -- 15.Minimally conscious state / Joeseph Giacino & Nicholas Schiff -- 16.Locked-in syndrome / Steven Laureys -- 17.Dementia : to be defined -- 18.Brain computer interfaces / Andrea Kubler -- 19.Ethical issues / Joseph Fins -- SEIZURES, SPLITS, NEGLECTS, AND ASSORTED DISORDERS -- 20.Epileptic loss of consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld -- 21.Split brain / Michael Gazzaniga -- 22.Blindsight, agnosia, neglect and Capgras / Lionel Naccache -- 23.Conversion disorders / Patrick Vuillemier -- 24.Out of body experiences / Olaf Blanke -- 25.Disturbances of conscious memory and the hippocampus / Susan Corkin -- 26.Global amnesia / Adam Zeman -- 27.Consciousness and aphasia : to be defined -- CLOSING THE CIRCLE / Giulio Tononi & Steven Laureys.
  note: edited by Steven Laureys, Giulio Tononi.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Loss of consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Brain damage
  subject:
    topic: Neurology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive neuroscience
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Unconsciousness
  subject:
    topic: Brain Damage, Chronic
  subject:
    topic: Neurology
  classification: QP376 .N487 2009
  classification: 612.8233
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)229026169
  identifier: 9780123741684
  identifier: 0123741688
  identifier: 140917:141059 Elsevier Science & Technology
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 090413
    record change date: 20260609193444.5
    record identifier: in00002649869
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng