Full Description
A book such as this one necessarily entails the effort of many individuals. Its first seed was a workshop in 1988 that one of us (K. L. C. ) designed and directed at the City University of New York Graduate Center as part of a series of conferences and workshops on topics in neuropsychology spon sored by the Institute for Research in Behavioral Neuroscience (IRBN). At that time, studies in the efficacy of olfaction as an alternative modality of stimulation in brain-injured adults were taking place at IRBN. The work shop helped to spark many new ideas among IRBN's staff, leading to various projects in clinical intervention, some of which are discussed in this volume. We soon discovered that clinical interest in olfaction was steadily increasing, and that this modality was in many ways on a par with the rest. Along with progress in the clinical investigation of olfaction, an abundance of work has been published in the basic science of the field. Ideas such as the regeneration of olfactory neurons and the use of these neurons in trans plantation took hold and were proved to be viable ones. These develop ments along with a profusion of techniques that allow a closer look at the anatomy and physiology of olfaction, have contributed to the accelerated pace with which this field is now advancing. Dr.
Contents
I: Historical Perspectives.- 1. Olfaction and the Primitive : Nineteenth-Century Medical Thinking on Olfaction.- II: The Basic Science of Olfaction.- 2. Morphology and Plasticity of the Vertebrate Olfactory Epithelium.- 3. Molecular Aspects of Olfaction.- 4. The Biochemistry of Olfactory Neurons: Stages of Differentiation and Neuronal Subsets.- 5. Neuroanatomical Substrates of Olfaction.- 6. Neurophysiology of the Olfactory Bulb.- 7. Olfactory Learning and Memory in the Rat: A "Model System" for Studies of the Neurobiology of Memory.- 8. Sex Differences in Olfaction in Mammals.- III: Clinical Issues in the Study of Olfaction.- 9. Techniques in the Quantitative Study of Human Olfaction.- 10. Stimulus Selection in the Design and Interpretation of Olfactory Studies.- 11. Assessing Olfaction: Cognitive and Measurement Issues.- 12. A Neurolinguistic Perspective of the Study of Olfaction.- 13. Human Olfaction in Infancy and Early Childhood.- 14. Olfaction and Human Sexuality: A Psychoanalytic Approach.- 15. Olfaction and Emotion.- 16. Primary Olfactory Disorders: Anosmia, Hyposmia, and Dysosmia.- 17. Olfactory Hallucinations.- 18. Olfaction in Aging and Medical Disorders.- 19. Olfactory Impairment in Korsakoff's Syndrome.- 20. Olfaction and Head Injury.- 21. Olfaction and Neuropsychiatry.
