Description
Psychophysiology: Today and Tomorrow focuses on the most important theoretical aspects and practical outlets of the problem, as well as the main potentialities and interests of psychophysiology.
Organized into 23 chapters, this book begins with the identification of component systems for syntax, verbal memory, focusing attention, and a system common to sequencing motor movements and phonemic discrimination. Subsequent chapter elucidates neurophysiological correlates of mental processes in man. Other chapters explore relations between electrical brain rhythms and behavior; brain exploration in psychophysiology; potentialities of neurophysiology in study and cure of mental disorders in epilepsy; and structural analysis of non-verbal thinking in man. The neuropharmacological analysis of the brain's functional organization in processes of formation and retrieval of memory engrams; role of neuropeptides in synapsomodification; and levels of functioning of transmitter systems and epileptogenesis are also explained.
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CHAPTER 2. NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF MENTAL PROCESSES IN MAN
CHAPTER 3. APPLICATION OF THE POST-STIMULUS- TIME HISTOGRAMS TO THE ANALYSIS OF DISCHARGE PATTERNS IN NEURONAL POPULATIONS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN DURING INTELLECTUAL-MNESTIC ACTIVITY
CHAPTER 4.RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ELECTRICAL BRAIN RHYTHMS AND BEHAVIOUR
CHAPTER 5. INFRASLOW PROCESSES OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AND ORGANIZATION OF MENTAL ACTIVITY
CHAPTER 6. BRAIN RESPONSES RELATED TO ORIENTING, EXPECTANCY AND MOTOR CONTROL
CORTICAL RESPONSES TO SUBCORTICAL STIMULATIONS
BRAIN POTENTIALS RELATED TO ORIENTING AND INFORMATION PROCESSING
CONTINGENT POTENTIALS RELATED TO EXPECTANCY AND READINESS
BRAIN POTENTIALS RELATED TO MOTOR CONTROL
A HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF SLOW (DC) POTENTIALS, ACTIVATION AND BEHAVIOUR
CHAPTER 7. THE PROBLEMS OF STEREOTAXIC NEUROLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
CHAPTER 8. BRAIN EXPLORATION IN PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
CHAPTER 9. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY AND STEREOTAXIS
CHAPTER 10. ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF LIMBIC BRAIN IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
CHAPTER 11. EFFECTS OF THALAMIC SURGERY ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN MAN
CHAPTER 12. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE HUMAN AMYGDALA
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTET 13. POTENTIALITIES OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY IN STUDY AND CURE OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN EPILEPSY
PART II: INDIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HUMAN BRAIN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER 14. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF PROTOCRITIC PROCESSES
AROUSAL, ACTIVATION, THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND BASAL GANGLIA
EFFORT AND THE HIPPOCAMPUS
SOME NEUROCHEMICAL PRELIMINARIES
NEUROPEPTIDES AND THE EFFORT MECHANISM
THE PROTOCRITIC DIMENSION
CHAPTER 15. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS NON-VERBAL THINKING OF IN MAN
CHAPTER 16. HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTION OF NEUTRAL AND EMOTIONAL STIMULI
CHAPTER 17. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF BRAIN SIGNAL EVALUATION AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
CHAPTER 18. EVENT RELATED DESYNCHRONIZATION DURING SENSORIMOTOR CORTICAL ACTIVATION
CHAPTER 19. NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BRAIN'S FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PROCESSES OF FORMATION AND RETRIEVAL OF MEMORY ENGRAMS
CHAPTER 20. THE BASIS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY: ROLE OF NEUROPEPTIDES IN SYNAPSOMODIFICATION
CHAPTER 21. LEVELS OF FUNCTIONING OF TRANSMITTER SYSTEMS AND EPILEPTOGENESIS
CHAPTER 22. BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES IN ANIMALS ON CREATION OF HYPERACTIVE DETERMINANT STRUCTURES IN SOME PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 23. EFFECT OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION ON RNA AND MEMBRANE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN RAT BRAIN TISSUE: PROBABILITY OF CONTROL FUNCTION OF CALCIUM