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The neurology of consciousness, cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology, edited by Steven Laureys and Giulio Tononi

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The neurology of consciousness

bibliography

edited by Steven Laureys and Giulio Tononi

cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology

Sect. I. Basics -- 1. Consciousness: an overview of the phenomenon and of its possible neural basis / Antonio Damasio and Kaspar Meyer -- 2. Neurological examination of consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld -- 3. Functional neuroimaging / Steven Laureys, Melanie Boly and Giulio Tononi -- 4. Consciousness and neuronal synchronization / Wolf Singer -- 5. Neural correlates of visual consciousness / Geraint Rees -- 6. The relationship between consciousness and attention / Naotsugu Tsuchiya and Christof Koch -- Sect. II. Waking, sleep and anaesthesia -- 7. Intrinsic brain activity and consciousness / Marcus E. Raichle and Abraham Z. Snyder -- 8. Sleep and dreaming / Giulio Tononi -- 9. Sleepwalking (somnambulism): dissociation between 'body sleep' and 'mind sleep' / Claudio L. Bassetti -- 10. General anaesthesia and consciousness / Michael T. Alkire -- Sect. III. Coma and related conditions -- 11. Coma / G. Bryan Young -- 12. Brain death / James L. Bernat --^13. The assessment of conscious awareness in the vegetative state / Adrian M. Owen, Nicholas D. Schiff and Steven Laureys -- 14. The minimally conscious state: clinical features, pathophysiology and therapeutic implications / Joseph T. Giacino and Nicholas D. Schiff -- 15. Consciousness in the locked-in syndrome / Olivia Gosseries, Marie-Aurelie Bruno, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Steven Laureys and Caroline Schnakers -- 16. Consciousness and dementia: how the brain loses its self / Pietro Pietrini, Eric Salmon and Paolo Nichelli -- 17. Brain-computer interfaces for communication in paralysed patients and implications for disorders of consciousness / Andrea Kubler -- 18. Neuroethics and disorders of consciousness: a pragmatic approach to neuropalliative care / Joseph J. Fins -- Sect. IV. Seizures, splits, neglects and assorted disorders -- 19. Epilepsy and consciousness / Hal Blumenfeld --^20. The left hemisphere does not miss the right hemisphere / Michael S. Gazzaniga and Michael B. Miller -- 21. Visual consciousness: an updated neurological tour / Lionel Naccache -- 22. The neurophysiology of self-awareness disorders in conversion hysteria / Patrik Vuilleumier -- 23. Leaving body and life behind: out-of-body and near-death experience / Olaf Blanke and Sebastian Dieguez -- 24. The hippocampus, memory, and consciousness / Bradley R. Postle -- 25. Syndromes of transient amnesia / Chris Butler and Adam Zeman -- 26. Consciousness and aphasia / Paolo Nichelli -- 27. Blindness and consciousness: new light from the dark / Pietro Pietrini, Maurice Ptito and Ron Kupers -- 28. The neurology of consciousness: an overview / Giulio Tononi and Steven Laureys