Neuroimaging of Consciousness

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cavanna, Andrea Eugenio. (Editor), Nani, Andrea. (Editor), Blumenfeld, Hal. (Editor), Laureys, Steven. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Radiology, Medical.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37580-4

Within the field of neuroscience, the past few decades have witnessed an exponential growth of research into the brain mechanisms underlying both normal and pathological states of consciousness in humans. The development of sophisticated imaging techniques (above all fMRI and PET) to visualize and m...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 Brain imaging and pathologies of consciousness
• Consciousness and neuroscience
• Consciousness: theoretical approaches
• Functional brain imaging and consciousness
• Part 2 Brain imaging and alternations of consciousness in epilepsy
• Temporal lobe seizures
• Absence seizures
• Brain imaging and alterations of consciousness in epilepsy: Generalized tonic-clonic seizures
• Consciousness, epilepsy and intracranial EEG
• Part 3 Brain imaging and alterations of consciousness in coma, sleep and anesthesia
• Neuroimaging of consciousness in the vegetative and minimally conscious states.-�Sleep and consciousness .-�Anesthesia
• Part 4 Brain imaging and alterations of consciousness in neuropsychiatric disorders.-�Neuroimaging studies of interoception and self-awareness
• Neuroimaging of functional neurological symptoms
• Neuroimaging studies of the dwindling self: neurodegenerative dementias.