How Brain Arousal Mechanisms Work

Paths Toward Consciousness

Paperback Engels 2018 9781108433334
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What are the physical paths towards consciousness? How do humans transition out of deep anesthesia, deep sleep, or traumatic brain injury? This book presents a new argument that expands past theories centered on the cerebral cortex, and instead emphasizes the longitudinally-integrated brainstem systems that are essential to the mechanism of consciousness. The workings of these vertical pathways that 'wake up the brain' are examined in neurobiological and molecular detail. Mirroring the evolution of this system from fish to humans, chapters in the book move from hindbrain to forebrain and from animal brain to human brain, developing the unified approach involved in the brain arousal mechanism. Considering consciousness through an array of neuronal structures, this book provides a new physical explanation of the phenomenon. Written for neurologists, neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists, the book's succinct and readable tone means it is also suitable for readers interested in the workings of the brain.

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ISBN13:9781108433334
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:168
Verschijningsdatum:6-12-2018
Hoofdrubriek:Geneeskunde

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Introduction; 1. Concept; 2. Giant cells in the medullary reticular formation; 3. Pons; 4. Midbrain; 5. Hypothalamus: low road; 6. Thalamus: high road; 7. High arousal; 8. Phase transitions from low Ga states; 9. Roots of consciousness and its disorders; 10. A vertically integrated system.

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