The boundaries of consciousness : neurobiology and neuropathology

著者

• Laureys, Steven
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

書誌事項

The boundaries of consciousness : neurobiology and neuropathology

edited by Steven Laureys

（Progress in brain research, v. 150）

Elsevier, 2005

注記

"This volume is an official title of the Association for the Scientific Study of Con[s]ciousness ASSC."

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

What in the world is consciousness? A neuroscientific approach to consciousness Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: How and what do we measure Global workspace theory of consciousness: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience? Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness Methods for studying unconscious learning Computational correlates of consciousness Machine consciousness Consciousness, information integration and the brain Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness? Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control Visual phenomenal consciousness: A neurological guided tour The mental self Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retroplenial cortices: Cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousness Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices. A reappraisal of functional neuroimaging data General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: Studies with propofol The cognitive modulation of pain: Hypnosis and placebo-induced analgesia Consciousness and epilepsy: Why are patients with absence seizures absent? Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzhemier's disease Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia Hysterical conversion and brain function The out-of-body experience: Precipitation factors and neural correlates Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors The concept and practice of brain death The minimally conscious state: Defining the borders of consciousness Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage Evoked potentials in severe brain injury Event-related potential measures of consciousness: Two equations with three unknowns Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state Modeling the minimally conscious state: Measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities The locked-in syndrome: What is it like to be conscious but paralysed and voiceless? Brain-computer interfaces - the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralysed body Neural plasticity and recovery of function 30 Years of the vegetative state: Clinical, ethical and legal problems Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: Potentials and limitations Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: Towards a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA74762269
• ISBN:
  • 0444518517
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Amsterdam ; Tokyo
• ページ数/冊数: xx, 585 p., [24] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 27 cm
• 分類:
  • NLM : WL 341
• 件名:
  • MESH : Consciousness
  • MESH : Consciousness Disorders
  • MESH : Neurobiology
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00079015