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Brain: Neuroscience. Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Mind: Introduction, Primer, Overview
Neuroscience. Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Brain & Mind: Introduction, Primer, & Overview
Brain Atlas - 3
I. Neuroscience: Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry,
Brain & Mind -6
Localization & Functional Neuroanatomy of the Brain -10
Knowing Yet Not Knowing: Disconnected Consciousness - 15
The Visual Mind: Denial of Blindness - 17
"Blind Sight" - 19
Body Consciousness: Denial of the Body, and Phantom Limbs - 21
Summary: Brain & Mind. -25
The Brainstem - 26
Brainstem Cranial Nerves - 31
Cerebellum - 32
Diencephalon: Hypothalamus and Thalamus - 36
The Limbic System: Emotion & Motivation - 40
Amygdala, Hippocampus, Septal Nuclei, Cingulate, Hypothalamus. - 40
Limbic System Sexuality - 41
Social Behavioral & the Limbic System - 44
Amygdala, Hippocampus & Memory -45
Hippocampus, Memory & Amnesia - 46
The Cingulate & Entorhinal Cortex - 48
Limbic & Corpus Striatum -50
Limbic System vs Neocortex: Consciousness - 53
The Neocortex (Gray Matter) - 54
Neocortical Layers - 55
The Cytoarchitextural Neuronal, & Chemical Organization of the Neocortex - 59
Conscious & Unconscious Mind -62
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal & Occipital Lobes - 65
Frontal Lobes - 66
Temporal Lobes - 69
Parietal Lobes - 73
Occipital Lobes & Vision - 78
Primary, Secondary & Association Ares - 81
Right & Left Hemisphere: Functional Laterality - 85
Dissociation and Self-Consciousness -88
Neuroanatomy of Mind - 91
Overview: Consciousness, Awareness & the Neuroscience of Mind -92
References - 94
Brain Atlas - 3
I. Neuroscience: Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry,
Brain & Mind -6
Localization & Functional Neuroanatomy of the Brain -10
Knowing Yet Not Knowing: Disconnected Consciousness - 15
The Visual Mind: Denial of Blindness - 17
"Blind Sight" - 19
Body Consciousness: Denial of the Body, and Phantom Limbs - 21
Summary: Brain & Mind. -25
The Brainstem - 26
Brainstem Cranial Nerves - 31
Cerebellum - 32
Diencephalon: Hypothalamus and Thalamus - 36
The Limbic System: Emotion & Motivation - 40
Amygdala, Hippocampus, Septal Nuclei, Cingulate, Hypothalamus. - 40
Limbic System Sexuality - 41
Social Behavioral & the Limbic System - 44
Amygdala, Hippocampus & Memory -45
Hippocampus, Memory & Amnesia - 46
The Cingulate & Entorhinal Cortex - 48
Limbic & Corpus Striatum -50
Limbic System vs Neocortex: Consciousness - 53
The Neocortex (Gray Matter) - 54
Neocortical Layers - 55
The Cytoarchitextural Neuronal, & Chemical Organization of the Neocortex - 59
Conscious & Unconscious Mind -62
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal & Occipital Lobes - 65
Frontal Lobes - 66
Temporal Lobes - 69
Parietal Lobes - 73
Occipital Lobes & Vision - 78
Primary, Secondary & Association Ares - 81
Right & Left Hemisphere: Functional Laterality - 85
Dissociation and Self-Consciousness -88
Neuroanatomy of Mind - 91
Overview: Consciousness, Awareness & the Neuroscience of Mind -92
References - 94
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First published September 19, 2011
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December 5, 2024
I'm scheduled to have a massive brain tumor removed on Dec. 11. I added this book to my reading list early because it was cheap and relatively short. What a mistake—this is an embarrassment to the medical profession and to anyone who cares about literature and/or evidence.
It's filled with misspellings, poor formatting, awful organization, and lacks labels or captions for the figures and illustrations. The title is clearly SEO junk. It's purportedly the second edition but has six copyright dates? The "publisher" doesn't even have a website that I can find.
I'd recommend The Only Neurology Book You'll Ever Need by Thaler & Thaler instead, to which I have no affiliation except that I found it helpful to understand more about my condition.
Usually I don't finish one-star books, because I put them down quickly, but for this I'll make an exception. STAY AWAY.
It's filled with misspellings, poor formatting, awful organization, and lacks labels or captions for the figures and illustrations. The title is clearly SEO junk. It's purportedly the second edition but has six copyright dates? The "publisher" doesn't even have a website that I can find.
I'd recommend The Only Neurology Book You'll Ever Need by Thaler & Thaler instead, to which I have no affiliation except that I found it helpful to understand more about my condition.
Usually I don't finish one-star books, because I put them down quickly, but for this I'll make an exception. STAY AWAY.
December 17, 2017
Lots of details , but yet suitable for a beginner in neuroscience
It is a good first book on neuroscience. It is has lot of anatomical and functional details of the brain.
It is a good first book on neuroscience. It is has lot of anatomical and functional details of the brain.
July 29, 2015
A quick, no-nonsense primer covering neuroanatomy and pyschopharmacology, from the molecular to cellular to systems levels. It's a short read, but reaches levels of detail that no pop-psych book ever would.
Particularly interesting to me were:
1) The detailed overview (forgive the oxymoron) of information flow from the peripheral nervous system to the CNS and back. In specific, the pathways and sequences in which information is passed from region to region in the brain as described in the early chapters are strikingly analogous to Kahneman's "System 1 / System 2" thinking tool and Haidt's "Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second" concept, providing a neural substrate to substantiate both of these theories.
2) The cases of split-brain patients, demonstrating such patients as having two separate streams of consciousness, both humorously and tragically controlled by different modules of the brain and in control of opposite hemispheres of the body. This leading one patient, for example, to pick up an item from the fridge with his right hand, only to snatch it out of his right hand with his left, which then put it back and picked up something else that his left (speaking) hemisphere didn't want to eat. In another example, the patient (language-enabled left hemisphere) is watching and enjoying a TV show that his right hemisphere apparently didn't like. His own left leg and arm literally dragged him off the couch and changed the channel against his will.
3) The neuroanatomy behind consciousness's mapping of the body in space, as well as vision, hearing, etc. Patients who are blind but don't know it; phantom limb syndrome and its inverse (e.x. a patient having a limb that they feel isn't theirs due to damage or lesion to a part of the somatosensory cortical region responsible for mapping it); stroke victims unknowingly ignoring the entire left side of their world.
4) The accounts of "out-of-body experiences" and the neural networks found to be responsible for these experiences. For example, electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe or hippocampus (or other types of stimulation, such as a seizure originating in these areas or conditions of extreme fear, stress, and trauma) can induce classical out-of-body experiences by (among other things) overactivating the "place neurons" that are responsible for cognitive mapping of the position of the subject and important objects in one's environment.
Each of the above contributes a grounded chunk of perspective on why we are the way we are both when our minds are functioning normally and, perhaps more interestingly, when they're not. Grounded, yet stranger-than-fiction, without invoking any metaphysics or leaning on philosophy.
My only gripe is that the Kindle version seemed to be missing all of the captions to the images and diagrams (which would have been required to learn anything from several of them), and there are so many misspellings and grammar errors that I can't imagine were part of the original published draft. Still, well worth the $7.99.
Particularly interesting to me were:
1) The detailed overview (forgive the oxymoron) of information flow from the peripheral nervous system to the CNS and back. In specific, the pathways and sequences in which information is passed from region to region in the brain as described in the early chapters are strikingly analogous to Kahneman's "System 1 / System 2" thinking tool and Haidt's "Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second" concept, providing a neural substrate to substantiate both of these theories.
2) The cases of split-brain patients, demonstrating such patients as having two separate streams of consciousness, both humorously and tragically controlled by different modules of the brain and in control of opposite hemispheres of the body. This leading one patient, for example, to pick up an item from the fridge with his right hand, only to snatch it out of his right hand with his left, which then put it back and picked up something else that his left (speaking) hemisphere didn't want to eat. In another example, the patient (language-enabled left hemisphere) is watching and enjoying a TV show that his right hemisphere apparently didn't like. His own left leg and arm literally dragged him off the couch and changed the channel against his will.
3) The neuroanatomy behind consciousness's mapping of the body in space, as well as vision, hearing, etc. Patients who are blind but don't know it; phantom limb syndrome and its inverse (e.x. a patient having a limb that they feel isn't theirs due to damage or lesion to a part of the somatosensory cortical region responsible for mapping it); stroke victims unknowingly ignoring the entire left side of their world.
4) The accounts of "out-of-body experiences" and the neural networks found to be responsible for these experiences. For example, electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe or hippocampus (or other types of stimulation, such as a seizure originating in these areas or conditions of extreme fear, stress, and trauma) can induce classical out-of-body experiences by (among other things) overactivating the "place neurons" that are responsible for cognitive mapping of the position of the subject and important objects in one's environment.
Each of the above contributes a grounded chunk of perspective on why we are the way we are both when our minds are functioning normally and, perhaps more interestingly, when they're not. Grounded, yet stranger-than-fiction, without invoking any metaphysics or leaning on philosophy.
My only gripe is that the Kindle version seemed to be missing all of the captions to the images and diagrams (which would have been required to learn anything from several of them), and there are so many misspellings and grammar errors that I can't imagine were part of the original published draft. Still, well worth the $7.99.
July 29, 2015
concise
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