The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology

著者名：Laureys PhD, Steven (EDT)

Elsevier Science（2006/06/09発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780444528766
• eISBN：9780080476209
• NDC分類：491.371

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What in the world is consciousness?Chapter 2: A neuroscientific approach to consciousnessChapter 3: Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: how and what do we measure?Chapter 4: Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experienceChapter 5: Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousnessChapter 6: Methods for studying unconscious learningChapter 7: Computational correlates of consciousnessChapter 8: Machine consciousnessChapter 9: Consciousness, information integration, and the brainChapter 10: Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perceptionChapter 11: From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness?Chapter 12: Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious controlChapter 13: Visual phenomenal consciousness: a neurological guided tourChapter 14: The mental selfChapter 15: Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retrosplenial cortices: cytology and components of the neural network correlates of consciousnessChapter 16: Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices: a reappraisal of functional neuroimaging dataChapter 17: General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousnessChapter 18: Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: studies with propofolChapter 19: The cognitive modulation of pain: hypnosis- and placebo-induced analgesiaChapter 20: Consciousness and epilepsy: why are patients with absence seizures absent?Chapter 21: Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzheimer's diseaseChapter 22: Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophreniaChapter 23: Hysterical conversion and brain functionChapter 24: The out-of body experience: precipitating factors and neural correlatesChapter 25: Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivorsChapter 26: The concept and practice of brain deathChapter 27: The minimally conscious state: defining the borders of consciousnessChapter 28: Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damageChapter 29: Evoked potentials in severe brain injuryChapter 30: Event-related potential measures of consciousness: two equations with three unknownsChapter 31: Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injuryChapter 32: Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative stateChapter 33: Modeling the minimally conscious state: measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilitiesChapter 34: The locked-in syndrome : what is it like to be conscious but paralyzed and voiceless?Chapter 35: Brain-computer interfaces — the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralyzed bodyChapter 36: Neural plasticity and recovery of functionChapter 37: Thirty years of the vegetative state: clinical, ethical and legal problemsChapter 38: Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: potentials and limitationsChapter 39: Outcome and ethics in severe brain damageChapter 40: Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: toward a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness