Disorders of volition / edited by Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sebanz, Natalie.

Prinz, Wolfgang, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia.

Will.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substanc.

Contents:

Contents; 1 - Toward a Science of Volition; I - Conceptual Foundations; 2 - Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis; 3 - The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency; 4 - Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency; 5 - Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint; 6 - A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control; 7 - If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions; II - Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia

8 - From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognitionand Its Failures9 - Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia; 10 - Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging; 11 - Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia; III - Disorders of Volition in Depression; 12 - Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression; 13 - Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory; 14 - The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression

IV - Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage15 - The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action; 16 - Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex; 17 - Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World?; V - Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse; 18 - Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers; 19 - Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking; 20 - A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior; List of Contributors

Author IndexSubject Index

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-09777-6

9786612097775

0-262-28335-2

OCLC:

939263607

Publisher Number:

99959290846