Encyclopedia of the human brain /

In the past decade, enormous strides have been made in understanding the human brain. The advent of sophisticated new imaging techniques (e.g. PET, MRI, MEG, etc.) and new behavioral testing procedures have revolutionized our understanding of the brain, and we now know more about the anatomy, functi...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ramachandran, V. S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©2002.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • v. 1. A-Cog
  • Contributors
  • About the Editor-in-Chief
  • About the Advisory Board
  • Preface
  • Action Potential / John A. White
  • Adolescent Brain Maturation / Jay N. Giedd; Elizabeth A. Molloy; Jonathan Blumenthal
  • Aggression / Jeffrey L. Saver
  • Aging Brain / Lori L. Beason-Held; Barry Horwitz
  • Agnosia / Jonathan J. Marotta; Marlene Behrmann
  • Agraphia / Steven Z. Rapcsak; Pelagie M. Beeson
  • Alcohol Damage to the Brain / John W. Olney
  • Alertness / Verity J. Brown; Eric M. Bowman
  • Alexia / Rhonda B. Friedman
  • Alzheimer's Disease, Neuropsychology of / Robin G. Morris; Claire L. Worsley
  • Anger / Christopher R. Long; James R. Averill
  • Anomia / Lisa Tabor Connor; Loraine K. Obler
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex / B.J. Casey; Nick Yeung; John Fossella
  • Anxiety / Eric Vermetten; Dennis S. Charney; J. Douglas Bremner
  • Aphasia / Martha Taylor Sarno
  • Apraxia / Kenneth M. Heilman; Leslie J. Gonzalez-Rothi
  • Area V2 / Daniel J. Felleman
  • Arousal / Richard T. Marrocco; Brent A. Field
  • Artificial Intelligence / Derek Partridge
  • Astrocytes / Nicole A. Baumann; Danielle Pham-Dinh
  • Attention / Shaun P. Vecera; Steven J. Luck
  • Auditory Agnosia / Henry A. Buchtel
  • Auditory Cortex / Robert J. Zatorre
  • Auditory Perception / William A. Yost
  • Autism / Eric Courchesne; Karen Pierce
  • Autoimmune Diseases / Felix Mor; Irun R. Cohen
  • Axon / Kathleen S. Rockland
  • Basal Ganglia / Bruce Crosson; Leeza Maron; Anna B. Moore; Laura Grande
  • Behavioral Neurogenetics / Frans Sluyter; Eco de Geus; Gilles van Luijtelaar; Wim E. Crusio
  • Behavioral Neuroimmunology / Douglas L. Delahanty; Julie K. Cremeans-Smith
  • Behavioral Pharmacology / Peter B. Dews
  • Bilingualism / Jyotsna Vaid
  • Biofeedback / Richard Gevirtz
  • Body Perception Disorders / Georg Goldenberg
  • Borna Disease Virus / W. Ian Lipkin; Thomas Briese; Mady Hornig
  • Brain Anatomy and Networks / M.-Marsel Mesulam
  • Brain Damage, Recovery from / Paul Bach-y-Rita
  • Brain Development / Harun K.M. Yusuf; Khaleda Islam
  • Brain Disease, Organic / Kenneth Maiese
  • Brain Lesions / Matthias Keidel; Philipp Stude
  • Brain Stem / William W. Blessing
  • Broca's Area / Michelle Crank; Peter T. Fox
  • Cancer Patients, Cognitive Function / Christina A. Meyers
  • Catecholamines / Arnold J. Friedhoff; Raul Silva
  • Categorization / Barbara J. Knowlton
  • Cerebellum / Marco Molinari
  • Cerebral Circulation / John A. Jane Jr.; Aaron S. Dumont; Daniel E. Couture; K. Michael Webb; Dilantha B. Ellegala; Hayan Dayoub; Neal F. Kassell
  • Cerebral Cortex / David F. Cechetto; Jane C. Topolovec
  • Cerebral Edema / David S. Liebeskind
  • Cerebral Palsy / Stephanie Watkins; Angela Rosenberg
  • Cerebral White Matter Disorders / Christopher M. Filley
  • Cerebrovascular Disease / John R. Absher
  • Chemical Neuroanatomy / Yuri Koutcherov; Ken W.S. Ashwell; George Paxinos
  • Cingulate Cortex / Michael Gabriel; Lauren Burhans; Andrew Talk; Paige Scalf
  • Circadian Rhythms / Charles A. Fuller; Patrick M. Fuller
  • Classical Conditioning / Robert E. Clark
  • Cognitive Aging / Naftali Raz
  • Cognitive Psychology, Overview / John F. Kihlstrom; Lillian Park
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation / Stephanie A. Kolakowsky-Hayner; Jeffrey S. Kreutzer.
  • v. 2. Col-Mem
  • Color Processing and Color Processing Disorders / Peter Gouras
  • Color Vision / Gerald H. Jacobs
  • Consciousness / Michael S. Gazzaniga
  • Conversion Disorders and Somatoform Disorders / Richard J. Brown; Maria A. Ron
  • Corpus Callosum / Kathleen Baynes
  • Cranial Nerves / Ann B. Butler
  • Creativity / Mark A. Runco
  • Dementia / Alfred W. Kaszniak
  • Depression / Esteban V. Cardemil
  • Dopamine / Lisa A. Taylor; Ian Creese
  • Dreaming / Mario Bertini
  • Dyslexia / H. Branch Coslett
  • Electrical Potentials / Fernando H. Lopes da Silva
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) / Paul L. Nunez
  • Emotion / Ralph Adolphs; Andrea S. Heberlein
  • Endorphins and Their Receptors / Catherine Abbadie; Gavril W. Pasternak
  • Epilepsy / Bettina Schmitz
  • Event-Related Electromagnetic Responses / John S. George
  • Evolution of the Brain / Harry J. Jerison
  • Eye Movements / Charles J. Bruce; Harriet R. Friedman
  • Forebrain / Luis Puelles; John Rubenstein
  • Frontal Lobe / Lada A. Kemenoff; Bruce L. Miller; Joel H. Kramer
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) / Robert L. Savoy
  • GABA / Sofie R. Kleppner; Allan J. Tobin
  • Glial Cell Types / Conrad A. Messam; Jean Hou; Nazila Janabi; Maria Chiara Monaco; Maneth Gravell; Eugene O. Major
  • Hallucinations / Jane Epstein; Emily Stern; David Silbersweig
  • Hand Movements / J. Randall Flanagan; Roland S. Johansson
  • Headaches / Seymour Diamond; George J. Urban
  • Hearing / John F. Brugge; Matthew A. Howard
  • Heuristics / Ralph Hertwig; Peter M. Todd
  • Hindbrain / Joel C. Glover
  • HIV Infection, Neurocognitive Complications of / Igor Grant
  • Homeostatic Mechanisms / Pierre-Marie Lledo
  • Humor and Laughter / Jyotsna Vaid
  • Hydrocephalus / Chima Ohaegbulam; Peter Black
  • Hypothalamus / J. Patrick Card; Linda Rinaman
  • Imaging: Brain Mapping Methods / John C. Mazziotta; Richard S.J. Frackowiak
  • Information Processing / Joe L. Martinez Jr.; Stephen A.K. Harvey; Adria E. Martinez; Edwin J. Barea-Rodriguez
  • Inhibition / Avishai Henik; Thomas H. Carr
  • Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg; James C. Kaufman
  • Ion Channels / B. Alexander Yi; Lily Y. Jan
  • Language Acquisition / Helen Tager-Flusberg
  • Language and Lexical Processing / Randi C. Martin; Mary R. Newsome; Hoang Vu
  • Language Disorders / David Caplan
  • Language, Neural Basis of / David Caplan
  • Laterality / Joseph B. Hellige
  • Left-Handedness / Stanley Coren
  • Limbic System / Joseph L. Price
  • Logic and Reasoning / Philip N. Johnson-Laird
  • Lyme Encephalopathy / Richard F. Kaplan
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) / Jeffry R. Alger
  • Manic-Depressive Illness / Edward H. Taylor
  • Memory Disorders, Organic / Andrew R. Mayes
  • Memory, Explicit and Implicit / Kathleen B. McDermott
  • Memory Neurobiology / Raymond P. Kesner
  • Memory, Neuroimaging / John Jonides; Tor D. Wager; David T. Badre
  • Memory, Overview / John A. Lucas.
  • v. 3. Men-Ph
  • Mental Retardation / Sandra Cluett Redden; Stephen R. Hooper; Martha Pope
  • Mental Workload / Raja Parasuraman; Daniel Caggiano
  • Microglia / Guido Stoll; Sebastian Jander; Michael Schroeter
  • Midbrain / David M. Waitzman; Douglas L. Oliver
  • Migraine / Margarita Sanchez del Rio; Stephen Silberstein
  • Mild Head Injury / Jeffrey T. Barth; Jason R. Freeman; Donna K. Broshek
  • Modeling Brain Injury/Trauma / Helmut L. Laurer; David F. Meaney; Susan S. Margulies; Tracy K. McIntosh
  • Mood Disorders / Eran Chemerinski; Robert G. Robinson
  • Motion Processing / Preeti Verghese; Brent R. Beutter
  • Motor Control / Steven P. Wise; Reza Shadmehr
  • Motor Cortex / Jon H. Kaas; Iwona Stepniewska
  • Motor Neuron Disease / Philip C. Wong; Donald L. Price; Jeffery Rothstein
  • Motor Skill / Eliot Hazeltine; Richard Ivry
  • Movement Regulation / John F. Soechting; Martha Flanders
  • Multiple Sclerosis / Lorri J. Lobeck
  • Multisensory Integration / Barry E. Stein; Paul Laurienti; Mark T. Wallace; Terrence R. Stanford
  • Music and the Brain / David W. Perry
  • Nausea and Vomiting / Robert J. Naylor
  • Neocortex / Jon H. Kaas
  • Nerve Cells and Memory / Peter S. Eriksson
  • Nervous System, Organization of / Jay B. Angevine Jr.
  • Neural Networks / Paul Sajda
  • Neural Transplantation / Douglas Kondziolka; Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara; Cristian Achim
  • Neuroanatomy / Christopher M. Filley
  • Neurobehavioral Toxicology / Marcia Hillary Ratner; Robert G. Feldman; Roberta F. White
  • Neurodegenerative Disorders / Lee J. Martin
  • Neurofeedback / James R. Evans
  • Neuroglia, Overview / Angus M. Brown; Bruce R. Ransom
  • Neuroimaging / Giorgio Ganis; Stephen M. Kosslyn
  • Neuron / Maryann E. Martone; Mark H. Ellisman
  • Neuropeptides and Islet Function / Bo Ahrén
  • Neuropharmacology / Edward A. Workman
  • Neuroplasticity, Developmental / Daphne Bavelier; Helen Neville
  • Neuropsychological Assessment / Aaron P. Nelson; Meghan M. Searl
  • Neuropsychological Assessment, Pediatric / Lawrence C. Hartlage
  • Neurotransmitters / James H. Schwartz
  • Nociceptors / Lorne M. Mendell
  • Norepinephrine / Candice Drouin; Jean-Pol Tassin
  • Number Processing and Arithmetic / Karen Wynn
  • Object Perception / Pepper Williams
  • Occipital Lobe / Edgar A. DeYoe
  • Olfaction / Richard L. Doty
  • Opiates / Clifford M. Knapp
  • Oxytocin / Hans H. Zingg
  • Pain / A.D. Craig
  • Pain and Psychopathology / David Fishbain
  • Parkinson's Disease / Melvin D. Yahr; Matthew A. Brodsky
  • Pattern Recognition / William R. Uttal
  • Peptides, Hormones, and the Brain and Spinal Cord / Lee J. Martin
  • Peripheral Nervous System / Andrei V. Krassioukov
  • Phantom Limb Pain / Herta Flor
  • Phineas Gage / Malcolm Macmillan.
  • v. 4. Pi-Z
  • Pick's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia / Andrew Kertesz; David G. Munoz
  • Prefrontal Cortex / Robert J. Morecraft; Edward H. Yeterian
  • Priming / Anthony D. Wagner; Wilma Koutstaal
  • Prion Diseases / Hans A. Kretzschmar
  • Problem Solving / Richard E. Mayer
  • Prosopagnosia / Edward H.F. De Haan
  • Psychoactive Drugs / David E. Presti
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology / Serge Campeau
  • Psychoneuroimmunology / David L. Felten; Mary E. Maida
  • Psychophysiology / David Lykken
  • Reading Disorders, Developmental / Virginia A. Mann
  • Receptive Field / Rajesh P.N. Rao
  • Recovered Memories / Heidi Sivers; Jonathan Schooler; Jennifer J. Freyd
  • Reinforcement, Reward, and Punishment / Daniel T. Cerutti
  • Respiration / Homayoun Kazemi; Douglas C. Johnson
  • Retina / John E. Dowling
  • Salience / Shih-Cheng Yen; Leif H. Finkel
  • Schizophrenia / Lisa T. Eyler Zorrilla; Dilip V. Jeste
  • Semantic Memory / Murray Grossman; Phyllis L. Koenig
  • Sensory Deprivation / Josef P. Rauschecker
  • Sex Differences in the Human Brain / Laura S. Allen; Roger A. Gorski
  • Sexual Behavior / John D. Baldwin; Janice I. Baldwin
  • Sexual Differentiation, Hormones and / Susan L. Zup; Nancy G. Forger
  • Sexual Dysfunction / Lisa Regev; Claudia Avina; William O'Donohue
  • Sexual Function / Mark S. George; Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum
  • Short-Term Memory / Giuseppe Vallar
  • Sleep Disorders / Clete A. Kushida
  • Spatial Cognition / Barbara Landau
  • Spatial Vision / Russell L. De Valois; Karen K. De Valois
  • Speech / Keith R. Kluender
  • Stress / D. Jeffrey Newport; Charles B. Nemeroff
  • Stress: Hormonal and Neural Aspects / Bruce McEwen; Sonia Lupien
  • Stroke / Allyson R. Zazulia
  • Suicide / Beth S. Brodsky; J. John Mann
  • Superior Colliculus / Barry E. Stein; Mark T. Wallace; Terrence R. Stanford
  • Synapses and Synaptic Transmission and Integration / Michel Baudry
  • Synaptogenesis / Frederique Varoqueaux; Nils Brose
  • Tactile Perception / Catherine L. Reed
  • Taste / Michael A. Barry; Marion E. Frank
  • Temporal Lobes / Henry A. Buchtel
  • Thalamus and Thalamic Damage / Chihiro Ohye
  • Time Passage, Neural Substrates / Deborah L. Harrington; Stephen M. Rao
  • Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Valsamma Eapen; Mary M. Robertson
  • Transplantation / Timothy J. Collier; John R. Sladek Jr.
  • Unconscious, The / John F. Kihlstrom
  • Unilateral Neglect / Eli Wertman; Kenneth M. Heilman
  • Ventricular System / David E. Scott
  • Vigilance / Martin Sarter; John P. Bruno
  • Violence and the Brain / Karen E. Anderson; Jonathan M. Silver
  • Vision: Brain Mechanisms / Robert Shapley; Nava Rubin
  • Visual and Auditory Integration / Jennifer M. Groh; Uri Werner-Reiss
  • Visual Cortex / Marcello G.P. Rosa
  • Visual Disorders / R.D. Jones; D. Tranel
  • Visual System Development and Neural Activity / A.E. Wiencken-Barger; V.A. Casagrande
  • Wernicke's Area / Eleanor M. Saffran
  • Working Memory / Sergio Della Sala; Robert H. Logie.