The Oxford Handbook of Functional Brain Imaging in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences

ISBN-13: 9780199764228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 416 str.

Andrew C. Papanicolaou

Opis

The Oxford Handbook of Functional Brain Imaging in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences describes in a readily accessible manner the several functional neuroimaging methods and critically appraises their applications that today account for a large part of the contemporary cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology literature. The complexity and the novelty of these methods often cloud appreciation of the methods' contributions and future promise.

The Handbook begins with an overview of the basic concepts of functional brain imaging common to all methods, and proceeds with a description of each of them, namely magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Its second part covers the various research applications of functional neuroimaging on issues like the function of the default mode network; the possibility and the utility of imaging of consciousness; the search for mnemonic traces of concepts; human will and decision-making; motor cognition; language; the mechanisms of affective states and pain; the presurgical mapping of the brain; and others. As such, the volume reviews the methods and their contributions to current research and comments on the degree to which they have enhanced our understanding of the relation between neurophysiological activity and sensory, motor, and cognitive functions. Moreover, it carefully considers realistic contributions of functional neuroimaging to future endeavors in cognitive neuroscience, medicine, and neuropsychology.

Recenzje

As practically useful and accurate as this book is in describing neuroimaging methodologies and their respective applications, an even greater purpose is served by the very insightful chapters addressing the more esoteric claims of where neuroimaging can take us in revealing mechanisms underlying such higher brain functions as memory, attention, decision-making, and 'consciousness.' These discussions. . . are clearly attributable to Dr. Papanicolaou's lifelong involvement with cognitive research, electrophysiology, imaging, and classical philosophy. Although he and his co-authors review the accomplishments of the field and carefully consider realistic neuroimaging contributions to future endeavors in medicine and neuropsychology, Dr. Papanicolaou also continues with a healthy, well-argued, skepticism about the more extravagant claims and expectations of the neuroimaging community.

O autorze

Andrew C. Papanicolaou, PhD, is professor and chief of the Division of Clinical Neurosciences as well as professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine. He is Co-Director of the Neuroscience Institute of the Le Bonheur Hospital of Memphis. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and several books including Clinical Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Source Imaging and The Amnesias: A Clinical Textbook of Memory Disorders (OUP 2006).