The Boundaries of Consciousness Neurobiology and Neuropathology 1st Edition by Steven Laureys 9780444528766 0444518517

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ISBN 10: 0444518517

ISBN 13: 9780444528766

Author: Steven Laureys

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:

1 What in the world is consciousness?

2 A neuroscientific approach to consciousness

3 Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: how and what do we measure?

4 Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience

5 Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness

6 Methods for studying unconscious learning

7 Computational correlates of consciousness

8 Machine consciousness

9 Consciousness, information integration, and the brain

10 Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception

11 From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness?

12 Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control

13 Visual phenomenal consciousness: a neurological guided tour

14 The mental self

15 Posterior cingulate, precuneal and retrosplenial cortices: cytology and components of the neural

16 Human cognition during REM sleep and the activity profile within frontal and parietal cortices

17 General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness

18 Brain imaging in research on anesthetic mechanisms: studies with propofol

19 The cognitive modulation of pain: hypnosis- and placebo-induced analgesia

20 Consciousness and epilepsy: why are patients with absence seizures absent?

21 Two aspects of impaired consciousness in Alzheimer’s disease

22 Functional brain imaging of symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia

23 Hysterical conversion and brain function

24 The out-of body experience: precipitating factors and neural correlates

25 Near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors

26 The concept and practice of brain death

27 The minimally conscious state: defining the borders of consciousness

28 Behavioral evaluation of consciousness in severe brain damage

29 Evoked potentials in severe brain injury

30 Event-related potential measures of consciousness: two equations with three unknowns

31 Novel aspects of the neuropathology of the vegetative state after blunt head injury

32 Using a hierarchical approach to investigate residual auditory cognition in persistent vegetative state

33 Modeling the minimally conscious state: measurements of brain function and therapeutic possibilities

34 The locked-in syndrome: what is it like to be conscious but paralyzed and voiceless?

35 Brain-computer interfaces — the key for the conscious brain locked into a paralyzed body

36 Neural plasticity and recovery of function

37 Thirty years of the vegetative state: clinical, ethical and legal problems

38 Assessing health-related quality of life after severe brain damage: potentials and limitations

39 Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage

40 Clinical pragmatism and the care of brain damaged patients: toward a palliative neuroethics for disorders of consciousness

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