Brain Asymmetry and Neural Systems Foundations in Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
Brain asymmetry has seldom been the primary underlying focus of books written within the neurosciences or in clinical neuropsychology. As such, this author finds no available text on brain asymmetry based on functional neural systems theory, which is foundational for the entire field. There remains...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Mind-Body Issue
- Localization Issue
- Basic Brain Functional Units
- Functional Cortical Levels within Units 2 & 3
- Functional Cerebral Systems Theory: An Integrated Brain
- Arousal Syndromes: First Functional Unit Revisited
- Sensation & Perception: Second Functional Unit Revisited
- Motor Functions: Third Functional Unit Revisited
- Thalamic & Hypothalamic Syndromes
- Syndromes of the Left Brain
- Syndromes of the Right Brain
- Mixed Brain Syndromes
- Frontal Lobe Syndromes
- Neuropsychopathology
- Two Brains, Two Kidneys, Two Lungs: Functional Brain Asymmetry
- Self Awareness
- Attributions & Appraisal
- Confabulation of Speech, Faces & Places
- Logical Linguistic & Affective Prosodic Speech
- Social Approach & Social Avoidance
- Positive & Negative Emotion
- Light & Dark
- Arousal Theory
- Right Hemisphere & Arousal
- Parasympathetic & Sympathetic Tone
- Fast Energetic "Happy Go Lucky" & Slow "Cautious" Response Styles
- Personal, Peripersonal & Extrapersonal Space
- Relationships: Proximal & Distal
- Right Hemi-Aging Theory
- Right Hemisphere & Pain
- Brain Pathology: Circulatory Systems
- Brain Pathology: Neurodegenerative Disorders
- Brain Pathology: Traumatic Brain Injury