The Paradoxical Brain

The Paradoxical Brain /

The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Kapur, Narinder (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
Series:Cambridge medicine (Series)
Subjects:
Brain.
Neurophysiology.
Brain > Diseases.
Paradox.
Cognition.
Mental illness.
Brain > physiology
Brain Diseases
Cognition
Mental Disorders
Neurosciences > methods
Brain
Neurophysiology
brains.
cognition.
mental disorders.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Foreword / Oliver Sacks
  • 1. The paradoxical nature of nature / Narinder Kapur, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Tom Manly and Jonathan Cole
  • 2. Paradoxical effects of sensory loss / Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Souzana Obretenova and Lotfi B. Merabet
  • 3. Paradoxical functional facilitation and recovery in neurological and psychiatric conditions / Narinder Kapur
  • 4. Paradoxes in neurorehabilitation / Tom Manly, Ian H. Robertson and Narinder Kapur
  • 5. The paradoxical self / Vilayanur Ramachandran and William Hirstein
  • 6. Paradoxical psychological functioning in early child development / David J. Lewkowicz and Asif A. Ghazanfar
  • 7. Cognitive ageing: a positive perspective / Shira Zimerman, Lynn Hasher and David Goldstein
  • 8. Paradoxes of learning and memory / Henry L. Roediger, III and Andrew C. Butler
  • 9. The paradox of human expertise: why experts get it wrong / Itiel E. Dror
  • 10. Paradoxes in Parkinson's Disease and other movement disorders / Ashwani Jha and Peter Brown
  • 11. Paradoxical phenomena in epilepsy / Steven C. Schachter
  • 12. Paradoxical creativity and adjustment in neurological conditions / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller
  • 13. Paradoxical functional facilitation with noninvasive brain stimulation / Umer Najib and Alvaro Pascual-Leone
  • 14. Unexpected benefits of allergies and cigarette smoking: two examples of paradox in neuroepidemiology / Judith Schwartzbaum, Linda Karavodin, Narinder Kapur and James L. Fisher
  • 15. The paradox of autism: why does disability sometimes give rise to talent? / Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli and Bhismadev Chakrabarti
  • 16. Paradoxes in creativity and psychiatric conditions / Jonathan Hurlow and James H. MacCabe
  • 17. The paradox of psychosurgery to treat mental disorders / Perminder S. Sachdev
  • 18. The paradox of electroconvulsive therapy / Angela Merkl and Malek Bajbouj
  • 19. Paradoxes of comparative cognition / Howard C. Hughes
  • 20. Paradoxical phenomena in brain plasticity / Bryan Kolb and G. Campbell Teskey
  • 21. Immature neurons in the adult brain: breaking all the rules / J. Martin Wojtowicz
  • 22. The paradoxical hippocampus: when forgetting helps learning / Howard Eichenbaum
  • 23. Paradoxical effects of drugs on cognitive function: the neuropsychopharmacology of dopamine and other neurotransmitter systems / Roshan Cools, Esther Aarts and Mitul A. Mehta
  • 24. The paradoxical brain
  • so what? / Narinder Kapur, Tom Manly, Jonathan Cole and Alvaro Pascual-Leone.

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