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A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested in exploring consciousness. Contributions from top researchers in consciousness and related fields project diverse ideas, focused mainly on conscious nonconscious interactions: 1. Paving the way for new research on basic scientific - physiological, pharmacological or neurochemical - mechanisms underpinning conscious experience (‘bottom up’ approach); 2. Providing directions on how psychological processes are involved in consciousness (‘top down’ approach); 3. Indicating how including consciousness could lead to new understanding of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and addiction; 4. More provocatively, but still based on scientific evidence, exploring consciousness beyond conventional boundaries, indicating the potential for radical new thinking or ‘quantum leaps’ in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. (Series B)

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Author:   Elaine K. Perry (Newcastle University) ,  Daniel Collerton (Newcastle University) ,  Fiona E.N. LeBeau (Newcastle University) ,  Heather Ashton (Newcastle University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   79
Weight:   0.805kg
ISBN:  

9789027252159

ISBN 10:   9027252157
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Prologue; 3. Poem; 4. Section I. Neuronal mechanisms; 5. The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness (by He, Biyu J.); 6. Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization (by Melloni, Lucia); 7. Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? (by LeBeau, Fiona E.N.); 8. Dopamine modulation of decision making processes (by Grace, Anthony A.); 9. Undercurrents of consciousness: The endocannabinoid system (by Ashton, Heather); 10. Disconnecting consciousness: The neuroscience of general anaesthesia (by Campos, Lucas); 11. Consciousness and neural time travel (by Hasselmo, Michael E.); 12. Section II. Psychological processes; 13. Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory (by Sheldon, Signy); 14. Two varieties of unconscious processes (by Franklin, Stan); 15. Operating characteristics and awareness (by Clifford, Colin W.G.); 16. Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness (by Rolls, Edmund T.); 17. Social consciousness (by Vogeley, Kai); 18. Consciousness and language: A processing perspective (by Sharwood Smith, Michael); 19. Cognitive illusions: From magic to science (by Kuhn, Gustav); 20. Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research (by Revonsuo, Antti); 21. Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness (by Hobson, Allan); 22. Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies; 23. Why depression feels bad (by Solms, Mark); 24. Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness (by Collerton, Daniel); 25. Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language (by Crow, Timothy J.); 26. Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia: The role of Cornu Ammonis Region 3 (by Behrendt, Ralf-Peter); 27. The visual unconscious: Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome (by ffytche, Dominic H.); 28. Believing is hearing is believing: The reciprocal nature of consciousness (by Sedley, William); 29. Dreaming as a physiological psychosis: Connecting states of consciousness (by D'Agostino, Armando); 30. Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users (by Parrott, Andrew); 31. Conscious and unconscious placebo responses: How the ritual of the therapeutic act changes the patient's brain (by Benedetti, Fabrizio); 32. Section IV. Expanding boundaries; 33. The paradoxes of creativity (by Ranpura, Ashish); 34. Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness (by Lutz, Antoine); 35. Self-induced altered states of consciousness (by Gangadhar, Bangalore N.); 36. Beyond the boundaries of the brain (by Radin, Dean); 37. Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys (by Perry, Elaine K.); 38. Index

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A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will stimulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested in exploring consciousness. -- On Wordtrade.com, Headline 3 - 2011

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