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Molecular Origins of Human Attention : the Dopamine-Folate Connection /

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This volume provides a highly integrated view of attention-related events, taking the reader from individual molecular interactions through the regulation of neuronal circuits to our higher order capacity for selective amplification of particular information. Neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiat...

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Main Author: Deth, Richard C.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint : Springer, 2003.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Neurosciences.
Psychiatry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The gift of attention
  • 2. A molecular basis for attention
  • 3. How dopamine receptors work
  • 4. The dopamine D4 receptor
  • 5. D4 receptor-mediated solid-state signaling
  • 6. Interneurons, D4 receptors and attention
  • 7. Attention-based learning
  • 8. Awareness, attention and the detection of novelty
  • 9. Attention and metabolism
  • 10. The effect of drugs on attention
  • 11. Attention-deficit hyperactivity
  • 12. Schizophrenia
  • 13. Autism
  • 14. Other psychiatric disorders
  • 15. An evolutionary perspective
  • 16. The gift of wisdom
  • References.