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The Paradoxical Brain
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Book at a glance
- Area
- Neuroscience & Brain Function
- Editors
- Kapur N
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Pages
- 466
- ISBN
- 9780521115575
What's inside
- Paradoxical functional facilitation and recovery in neurological and psychiatric conditions (Kapur)
- Paradoxes in neurorehabilitation (Manly, Robertson, Kapur)
- Paradoxical functional facilitation with noninvasive brain stimulation (Najib, Pascual-Leone)
- Paradoxical phenomena in brain plasticity (Kolb, Teskey)
From the publisher (Cambridge University Press) → DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511978098 →
Edited by Narinder Kapur with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Vilayanur Ramachandran and others, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks, this book gathers findings where the brain behaves against expectation: better performance after a lesion or sensory loss, forgetting that helps learning, talent alongside autism, and the paradoxes of psychosurgery and electroconvulsive therapy. Its 24 chapters span neurology, psychiatry, development, aging and plasticity.
It is written for researchers and clinicians in the brain sciences. Neurofeedback practitioners will find the chapters on plasticity, neurorehabilitation and noninvasive brain stimulation a useful check on simple deficit models of the brain.