Encyclopedia of the human brain / editor-in-chief, V.S. Ramachandran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramachandran, V. S., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Encyclopedias.

Brain.

Neurosciences--Encyclopedias.

Neurosciences.

Neurology--Encyclopedias.

Neurology.

Medical Subjects:

Brain.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 903 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Edition:

First ED.

Other Title:

Human brain

Place of Publication:

San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, [2002]

System Details:

data file

Contents:

v. 1. A-Cog

Contributors

About the Editor-in-Chief

About the Advisory Board

Preface

Action Potential / John A. White

Adolescent Brain Maturation / Jay N. Giedd; Elizabeth A. Molloy; Jonathan Blumenthal

Aggression / Jeffrey L. Saver

Aging Brain / Lori L. Beason-Held; Barry Horwitz

Agnosia / Jonathan J. Marotta; Marlene Behrmann

Agraphia / Steven Z. Rapcsak; Pelagie M. Beeson

Alcohol Damage to the Brain / John W. Olney

Alertness / Verity J. Brown; Eric M. Bowman

Alexia / Rhonda B. Friedman

Alzheimer's Disease, Neuropsychology of / Robin G. Morris; Claire L. Worsley

Anger / Christopher R. Long; James R. Averill

Anomia / Lisa Tabor Connor; Loraine K. Obler

Anterior Cingulate Cortex / B.J. Casey; Nick Yeung; John Fossella

Anxiety / Eric Vermetten; Dennis S. Charney; J. Douglas Bremner

Aphasia / Martha Taylor Sarno

Apraxia / Kenneth M. Heilman; Leslie J. Gonzalez-Rothi

Area V2 / Daniel J. Felleman

Arousal / Richard T. Marrocco; Brent A. Field

Artificial Intelligence / Derek Partridge

Astrocytes / Nicole A. Baumann; Danielle Pham-Dinh

Attention / Shaun P. Vecera; Steven J. Luck

Auditory Agnosia / Henry A. Buchtel

Auditory Cortex / Robert J. Zatorre

Auditory Perception / William A. Yost

Autism / Eric Courchesne; Karen Pierce

Autoimmune Diseases / Felix Mor; Irun R. Cohen

Axon / Kathleen S. Rockland

Basal Ganglia / Bruce Crosson; Leeza Maron; Anna B. Moore; Laura Grande

Behavioral Neurogenetics / Frans Sluyter; Eco de Geus; Gilles van Luijtelaar; Wim E. Crusio

Behavioral Neuroimmunology / Douglas L. Delahanty; Julie K. Cremeans-Smith

Behavioral Pharmacology / Peter B. Dews

Bilingualism / Jyotsna Vaid

Biofeedback / Richard Gevirtz

Body Perception Disorders / Georg Goldenberg

Borna Disease Virus / W. Ian Lipkin; Thomas Briese; Mady Hornig

Brain Anatomy and Networks / M.-Marsel Mesulam

Brain Damage, Recovery from / Paul Bach-y-Rita

Brain Development / Harun K.M. Yusuf; Khaleda Islam

Brain Disease, Organic / Kenneth Maiese

Brain Lesions / Matthias Keidel; Philipp Stude

Brain Stem / William W. Blessing

Broca's Area / Michelle Crank; Peter T. Fox

Cancer Patients, Cognitive Function / Christina A. Meyers

Catecholamines / Arnold J. Friedhoff; Raul Silva

Categorization / Barbara J. Knowlton

Cerebellum / Marco Molinari

Cerebral Circulation / John A. Jane Jr.; Aaron S. Dumont; Daniel E. Couture; K. Michael Webb; Dilantha B. Ellegala; Hayan Dayoub; Neal F. Kassell

Cerebral Cortex / David F. Cechetto; Jane C. Topolovec

Cerebral Edema / David S. Liebeskind

Cerebral Palsy / Stephanie Watkins; Angela Rosenberg

Cerebral White Matter Disorders / Christopher M. Filley

Cerebrovascular Disease / John R. Absher

Chemical Neuroanatomy / Yuri Koutcherov; Ken W.S. Ashwell; George Paxinos

Cingulate Cortex / Michael Gabriel; Lauren Burhans; Andrew Talk; Paige Scalf

Circadian Rhythms / Charles A. Fuller; Patrick M. Fuller

Classical Conditioning / Robert E. Clark

Cognitive Aging / Naftali Raz

Cognitive Psychology, Overview / John F. Kihlstrom; Lillian Park

Cognitive Rehabilitation / Stephanie A. Kolakowsky-Hayner; Jeffrey S. Kreutzer.

v. 2. Col-Mem

Color Processing and Color Processing Disorders / Peter Gouras

Color Vision / Gerald H. Jacobs

Consciousness / Michael S. Gazzaniga

Conversion Disorders and Somatoform Disorders / Richard J. Brown; Maria A. Ron

Corpus Callosum / Kathleen Baynes

Cranial Nerves / Ann B. Butler

Creativity / Mark A. Runco

Dementia / Alfred W. Kaszniak

Depression / Esteban V. Cardemil

Dopamine / Lisa A. Taylor; Ian Creese

Dreaming / Mario Bertini

Dyslexia / H. Branch Coslett

Electrical Potentials / Fernando H. Lopes da Silva

Electroencephalography (EEG) / Paul L. Nunez

Emotion / Ralph Adolphs; Andrea S. Heberlein

Endorphins and Their Receptors / Catherine Abbadie; Gavril W. Pasternak

Epilepsy / Bettina Schmitz

Event-Related Electromagnetic Responses / John S. George

Evolution of the Brain / Harry J. Jerison

Eye Movements / Charles J. Bruce; Harriet R. Friedman

Forebrain / Luis Puelles; John Rubenstein

Frontal Lobe / Lada A. Kemenoff; Bruce L. Miller; Joel H. Kramer

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) / Robert L. Savoy

GABA / Sofie R. Kleppner; Allan J. Tobin

Glial Cell Types / Conrad A. Messam; Jean Hou; Nazila Janabi; Maria Chiara Monaco; Maneth Gravell; Eugene O. Major

Hallucinations / Jane Epstein; Emily Stern; David Silbersweig

Hand Movements / J. Randall Flanagan; Roland S. Johansson

Headaches / Seymour Diamond; George J. Urban

Hearing / John F. Brugge; Matthew A. Howard

Heuristics / Ralph Hertwig; Peter M. Todd

Hindbrain / Joel C. Glover

HIV Infection, Neurocognitive Complications of / Igor Grant

Homeostatic Mechanisms / Pierre-Marie Lledo

Humor and Laughter / Jyotsna Vaid

Hydrocephalus / Chima Ohaegbulam; Peter Black

Hypothalamus / J. Patrick Card; Linda Rinaman

Imaging: Brain Mapping Methods / John C. Mazziotta; Richard S.J. Frackowiak

Information Processing / Joe L. Martinez Jr.; Stephen A.K. Harvey; Adria E. Martinez; Edwin J. Barea-Rodriguez

Inhibition / Avishai Henik; Thomas H. Carr

Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg; James C. Kaufman

Ion Channels / B. Alexander Yi; Lily Y. Jan

Language Acquisition / Helen Tager-Flusberg

Language and Lexical Processing / Randi C. Martin; Mary R. Newsome; Hoang Vu

Language Disorders / David Caplan

Language, Neural Basis of / David Caplan

Laterality / Joseph B. Hellige

Left-Handedness / Stanley Coren

Limbic System / Joseph L. Price

Logic and Reasoning / Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Lyme Encephalopathy / Richard F. Kaplan

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) / Jeffry R. Alger

Manic-Depressive Illness / Edward H. Taylor

Memory Disorders, Organic / Andrew R. Mayes

Memory, Explicit and Implicit / Kathleen B. McDermott

Memory Neurobiology / Raymond P. Kesner

Memory, Neuroimaging / John Jonides; Tor D. Wager; David T. Badre

Memory, Overview / John A. Lucas.

v. 3. Men-Ph

Mental Retardation / Sandra Cluett Redden; Stephen R. Hooper; Martha Pope

Mental Workload / Raja Parasuraman; Daniel Caggiano

Microglia / Guido Stoll; Sebastian Jander; Michael Schroeter

Midbrain / David M. Waitzman; Douglas L. Oliver

Migraine / Margarita Sanchez del Rio; Stephen Silberstein

Mild Head Injury / Jeffrey T. Barth; Jason R. Freeman; Donna K. Broshek

Modeling Brain Injury/Trauma / Helmut L. Laurer; David F. Meaney; Susan S. Margulies; Tracy K. McIntosh

Mood Disorders / Eran Chemerinski; Robert G. Robinson

Motion Processing / Preeti Verghese; Brent R. Beutter

Motor Control / Steven P. Wise; Reza Shadmehr

Motor Cortex / Jon H. Kaas; Iwona Stepniewska

Motor Neuron Disease / Philip C. Wong; Donald L. Price; Jeffery Rothstein

Motor Skill / Eliot Hazeltine; Richard Ivry

Movement Regulation / John F. Soechting; Martha Flanders

Multiple Sclerosis / Lorri J. Lobeck

Multisensory Integration / Barry E. Stein; Paul Laurienti; Mark T. Wallace; Terrence R. Stanford

Music and the Brain / David W. Perry

Nausea and Vomiting / Robert J. Naylor

Neocortex / Jon H. Kaas

Nerve Cells and Memory / Peter S. Eriksson

Nervous System, Organization of / Jay B. Angevine Jr.

Neural Networks / Paul Sajda

Neural Transplantation / Douglas Kondziolka; Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara; Cristian Achim

Neuroanatomy / Christopher M. Filley

Neurobehavioral Toxicology / Marcia Hillary Ratner; Robert G. Feldman; Roberta F. White

Neurodegenerative Disorders / Lee J. Martin

Neurofeedback / James R. Evans

Neuroglia, Overview / Angus M. Brown; Bruce R. Ransom

Neuroimaging / Giorgio Ganis; Stephen M. Kosslyn

Neuron / Maryann E. Martone; Mark H. Ellisman

Neuropeptides and Islet Function / Bo Ahrén

Neuropharmacology / Edward A. Workman

Neuroplasticity, Developmental / Daphne Bavelier; Helen Neville

Neuropsychological Assessment / Aaron P. Nelson; Meghan M. Searl

Neuropsychological Assessment, Pediatric / Lawrence C. Hartlage

Neurotransmitters / James H. Schwartz

Nociceptors / Lorne M. Mendell

Norepinephrine / Candice Drouin; Jean-Pol Tassin

Number Processing and Arithmetic / Karen Wynn

Object Perception / Pepper Williams

Occipital Lobe / Edgar A. DeYoe

Olfaction / Richard L. Doty

Opiates / Clifford M. Knapp

Oxytocin / Hans H. Zingg

Pain / A.D. Craig

Pain and Psychopathology / David Fishbain

Parkinson's Disease / Melvin D. Yahr; Matthew A. Brodsky

Pattern Recognition / William R. Uttal

Peptides, Hormones, and the Brain and Spinal Cord / Lee J. Martin

Peripheral Nervous System / Andrei V. Krassioukov

Phantom Limb Pain / Herta Flor

Phineas Gage / Malcolm Macmillan.

v. 4. Pi-Z

Pick's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia / Andrew Kertesz; David G. Munoz

Prefrontal Cortex / Robert J. Morecraft; Edward H. Yeterian

Priming / Anthony D. Wagner; Wilma Koutstaal

Prion Diseases / Hans A. Kretzschmar

Problem Solving / Richard E. Mayer

Prosopagnosia / Edward H.F. De Haan

Psychoactive Drugs / David E. Presti

Psychoneuroendocrinology / Serge Campeau

Psychoneuroimmunology / David L. Felten; Mary E. Maida

Psychophysiology / David Lykken

Reading Disorders, Developmental / Virginia A. Mann

Receptive Field / Rajesh P.N. Rao

Recovered Memories / Heidi Sivers; Jonathan Schooler; Jennifer J. Freyd

Reinforcement, Reward, and Punishment / Daniel T. Cerutti

Respiration / Homayoun Kazemi; Douglas C. Johnson

Retina / John E. Dowling

Salience / Shih-Cheng Yen; Leif H. Finkel

Schizophrenia / Lisa T. Eyler Zorrilla; Dilip V. Jeste

Semantic Memory / Murray Grossman; Phyllis L. Koenig

Sensory Deprivation / Josef P. Rauschecker

Sex Differences in the Human Brain / Laura S. Allen; Roger A. Gorski

Sexual Behavior / John D. Baldwin; Janice I. Baldwin

Sexual Differentiation, Hormones and / Susan L. Zup; Nancy G. Forger

Sexual Dysfunction / Lisa Regev; Claudia Avina; William O'Donohue

Sexual Function / Mark S. George; Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum

Short-Term Memory / Giuseppe Vallar

Sleep Disorders / Clete A. Kushida

Spatial Cognition / Barbara Landau

Spatial Vision / Russell L. De Valois; Karen K. De Valois

Speech / Keith R. Kluender

Stress / D. Jeffrey Newport; Charles B. Nemeroff

Stress: Hormonal and Neural Aspects / Bruce McEwen; Sonia Lupien

Stroke / Allyson R. Zazulia

Suicide / Beth S. Brodsky; J. John Mann

Superior Colliculus / Barry E. Stein; Mark T. Wallace; Terrence R. Stanford

Synapses and Synaptic Transmission and Integration / Michel Baudry

Synaptogenesis / Frederique Varoqueaux; Nils Brose

Tactile Perception / Catherine L. Reed

Taste / Michael A. Barry; Marion E. Frank

Temporal Lobes / Henry A. Buchtel

Thalamus and Thalamic Damage / Chihiro Ohye

Time Passage, Neural Substrates / Deborah L. Harrington; Stephen M. Rao

Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Valsamma Eapen; Mary M. Robertson

Transplantation / Timothy J. Collier; John R. Sladek Jr.

Unconscious, The / John F. Kihlstrom

Unilateral Neglect / Eli Wertman; Kenneth M. Heilman

Ventricular System / David E. Scott

Vigilance / Martin Sarter; John P. Bruno

Violence and the Brain / Karen E. Anderson; Jonathan M. Silver

Vision: Brain Mechanisms / Robert Shapley; Nava Rubin

Visual and Auditory Integration / Jennifer M. Groh; Uri Werner-Reiss

Visual Cortex / Marcello G.P. Rosa

Visual Disorders / R.D. Jones; D. Tranel

Visual System Development and Neural Activity / A.E. Wiencken-Barger; V.A. Casagrande

Wernicke's Area / Eleanor M. Saffran

Working Memory / Sergio Della Sala; Robert H. Logie.

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Includes graphical cross-reference mapper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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