紹介
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 * Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions * Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development * Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease * Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will lead to a better understanding of brain function and to the introduction of new therapeutic strategies. The book will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword Oliver Sacks
Author affiliations
Abbreviations
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 the 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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