Full Description
Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to scientists and graduate students in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, physiology, psychology, physics and philosophy. Its goals are the development of an empirical-analytical construct, denoted as "Reasonings to Approach the Mind", and the comprehension of 20 principles for understanding the mind. This book amalgamates results from work on the brain, vegetative system, brains in the evolution of species, the maturing brain, dynamic memory, emotional processes, and cognitive impairment in neuro-psychiatric disorders (Alzheimer, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders). The findings are comparatively evaluated within the framework of brain oscillations and neurotransmitters. Further, a holistic approach links the brain to the cardiovascular system and overall myogenic coordination of the vegetative system.
The results emphasize that EEG oscillations, ultraslow oscillations, and neurotransmitters are quasi-invariant building blocks in brain-body-mind function and also during the evolution of species: The temporal domain is where the importance of research on neural oscillators is indispensable. The core, holistic concept that emerges is that the brain, spinal cord, overall myogenic system, brain-body-oscillations, and neurotransmitters form a functional syncytium. Accordingly, the concept of "Syncytium Brain-Body-Mind" replaces the concept of "Mind". P>
Contents
PART I: Foundations: History and Fundamental Processes in Nature.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Brain-Body-Mind Problem: A Short Historical and Interdisciplinary Survey.- Chapter 2: Frameworks in the Integration of the Sciences.- PART II: Whole Brain Work and a Holistic Approach to Brain-Body Integration.- Introduction.- Chapter 3: Brain Structures, Transmitters and Analyzing Strategies.- Chapter 4: Autonomus Nervous System, Cardiovascular System and Smooth Muscles.- Chapter 5: Overall Myogenic-Coordination:Building Stones in the Whole-Body-Integration and Tuning.- Chapter 6: Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing.- Chapter 7: Dynamic Memory.- Chapter 8: Whole-Brain-Work.- Chapter 9: Does the Brain-Body-Mind Work as Dynamic Syncytium.- PART III: Brain in Different States: Evolution, Maturing, Emotion and Pathology.- Introduction.- Chapter 10: The Brain in Evolution of Species and Darwin's Theory.- Chapter 11: The Maturing Brain: Micro Evolution.- Chapter 12: Oscillatory Dynamics of the Emotional Brain: Links of Emotion to Episodic Memory.- Chapter 13: Pathologic Brain: Impairment of Mind Bases on Break of Oscillations and Modulation of Neurotransmitter Release.- PART IV: The Physics of Biology Interface: "A Cartesian System for the 21st Century".-Introduction.- Chapter 14: Chaos and Quantum Approach: Gateway to a 21st Century Cartesian System.- Chapter 15: The Brain in Probabilistic Hyperspace.- Chapter 16: Quantum Brain and the Nebulous Cartesian System.- PART V: Metaphysics of the Brain: Cutting Edges of Philosophy.- Introduction.- Chapter 17: Darwinism, Bergsonism, Concept of Entropy and Creative Thinking.- Chapter 18: Bergson's Intuition Memory and Episodic Memory.- Chapter 19: Towards Metaphysics, Conscient and Unconcient States.- Chapter 20: Mysteries of Mind Conscient and Unconcient States in Creativity and Sleep.- PART VI: Essentials and Unifying Trends in Brain and Body.- Introduction.- Chapter 21: Leitmotives and Common Concepts: An Interim Description.- Chapter 22: Oscillations and Transmitters are Quasi-Invariants in Brain-Body-Mind Integration. What is Break of Mind?.- Chapter 23: Unifying Trends: Globally Coupled Oscillators in Brain-Body.- Chapter 24: Unifying Concepts: Brain's String Theory.- Chapter 25: Unifying Concepts: Brain-Body-Mind Integration and Intuitive Processes.- Chapter 26: Need for a Paradigm Shift and a New Cartesian System
