Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition
Christopher M. Filley
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1607320983
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The book outlines how cognitive and emotional functions are represented and organized in the brain to produce the behaviors regarded as uniquely human. It reviews the effects of focal and diffuse brain lesions, and from this analysis a conception of the normal operations of the healthy brain emerges. Christopher M. Filley integrates data and material from different disciplines to create a concise and accessible synthesis that informs the clinical understanding of brain-behavior relationships. Clinically practical and theoretically stimulating, the book is an invaluable resource for those involved in the clinical care and study of people with neurobehavioral disorders.
Including a useful glossary and extensive references guiding users to further research, the third edition will be of significance to medical students, residents, fellows, practicing physicians, and the general reader interested in neurology.
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Impaired consciousness that clinicians and researchers have put to good use, Disorders of Arousal and Attention 51 there is still something unfathomable about this most important property of the human mind. There is, to be sure, no reason to doubt that the structure and function of the brain account in some way for the phenomenon of consciousness, but the actual means by which neural activity is transformed into subjective conscious experience remains as yet an impenetrable mystery.
Express complete acceptance of the identity of mind and brain (Churchland 1986; Dennett 1991). At first glance, the dualist position may seem untenable in view of modern conceptions of neuroscience, but difficult problems remain nonetheless. Behavior and the Brain Prominent among them is the question of free will. Do people act “freely” or under strictly determined laws of physics and chemistry? This dilemma can be more precisely posed as follows: If the mind and brain are in fact.
Emotionally traumatic event; a good general rule is that loss of personal identity strongly implies a psychogenic, not neurologic, origin (Devinsky 1992). Thorough mental status evaluation, and neuropsychological evaluation in many cases, will usually make the necessary distinctions. At a basic level, it is increasingly clear that the storage of memory fundamentally involves the question of how synapses change (Kandel 2006). Learning and memory likely involve synaptic plasticity, by which.
Early nineteenth centuries known as phrenology, or organology, 14 Behavior and the Brain to appreciate how a too literal approach to brain-behavior relationships can become absurd. Most strongly associated with the names of Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832), phrenology claimed to allow the assessment of behavioral traits by simple palpation of the skull, the bumps and ridges thereon allegedly corresponding to anatomical features of the underlying brain.