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Book at a glance

Area
Neuroscience & Brain Function
Written for
Clinicians & technicians
Authors
Laureys S
Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2005
Edition
Progress in Brain Research, volume 150
Pages
632
ISBN
9780444518514

What's inside

  • Theories of consciousness, from global workspace to information integration
  • E. Roy John on neural synchrony, QEEG and anaesthesia
  • Altered states: sleep, anaesthesia, hypnosis, epilepsy and psychiatric conditions
  • Coma, vegetative and minimally conscious states, locked-in syndrome, brain-computer interfaces and ethics

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A wide-ranging collection on what consciousness is and what happens to it when it is altered or lost, edited by Steven Laureys as volume 150 of Progress in Brain Research. Its 40 chapters by leading researchers open with theory: global workspace theory, information integration, thalamo-cortical oscillations, and a chapter by E. Roy John, a founder of quantitative EEG, on how synchronized activity across brain networks may give rise to awareness, drawing on the EEG changes seen as patients lose and regain consciousness under anaesthesia. Later chapters cover sleep, anaesthesia, hypnosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and out-of-body and near-death experiences, and the book ends with coma, the vegetative and minimally conscious states, locked-in syndrome, brain-computer interfaces, recovery and ethics.

For clinicians and researchers interested in how EEG, evoked potentials and brain imaging are used to understand consciousness and to assess patients with severe brain injury.

Chapters

  1. What in the world is consciousness? Adam Zeman
  2. A neuroscientific approach to consciousness Susan A. Greenfield, Toby F.T. Collins
  3. Functional neuroimaging during altered states of consciousness: how and what do we measure? Joy Hirsch
  4. Global workspace theory of consciousness: toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience Bernard J. Baars
  5. Skill, corporality and alerting capacity in an account of sensory consciousness J. Kevin O’Regan, Erik Myin, Alva Noë
  6. Methods for studying unconscious learning Arnaud Destrebecqz, Philippe Peigneux
  7. Computational correlates of consciousness Axel Cleeremans
  8. Machine consciousness Igor Aleksander
  9. Consciousness, information integration, and the brain Giulio Tononi
  10. Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception Urs Ribary
  11. From synchronous neuronal discharges to subjective awareness? E. Roy John
  12. Genes and experience shape brain networks of conscious control Michael I. Posner