Neurosciences: Higher Brain Functions and Integration

Neurosciences · Basic Sciences

How it begins

Comprehensive analysis of the neurobiological substrates of human cognition, from cortical cytoarchitecture to multimodal integration circuits and their clinical correlates.

What it covers

1. Higher Brain Functions and Integration
2. Introduction: The Problem of Higher Brain Functions
3. Cerebral Cortex: Structural and Functional Organization
4. · 1.1. Cortical Cytoarchitecture: The Six Layers
5. · 1.2. Columnar Organization: The Functional Unit of the Cortex
6. · 1.3. Brodmann Map and Functional Areas
7. Language: Neurobiology and Brain Organization
8. · 2.1. The Classic Model and its Revisions
9. · 2.2. The Two Streams of Language
10. · 2.3. Syntactic Processing
11. · 2.4. Aphasias: Clinical Classification and Anatomical Correlates
12. · 2.5. Reading and Writing: Lexical Routes
13. Memory and Learning: Systems, Circuits and Mechanisms
14. · 3.1. Taxonomy of Memory Systems
15. · 3.2. The Hippocampus and the Papez Circuit
16. · 3.3. Memory Consolidation: Standard and Multiple Theory
17. · 3.4. Molecular Mechanisms of Learning: LTP and LTD
18. · 3.5. Working Memory: Baddeley Model
19. Attention and Consciousness: Networks and Mechanisms
20. · 4.1. Posner and Petersen's Three Attentional Networks
21. · 4.2. The Corbetta and Shulman Model: Dorsal and Ventral Networks
22. · 4.3. The Default Mode Network (DMN)
23. · 4.4. Neglect Syndrome and Anosognosia
24. · 4.5. Consciousness: Neural Bases and Theories
25. Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex
26. · 5.1. The Prefrontal Cortex: Subdivisions and Functions
27. · 5.2. The Somatic Marker Hypothesis (Damasio)
28. · 5.3. The Basal Ganglia and the Cortico-Striato-Thalamo-Cortical Circuits
29. Emotions, Limbic System and Affective Regulation
30. · 6.1. The Amygdala: The Emotional Relevance Detector
31. · 6.2. Contemporary Theories of Emotion
32. · 6.3. The Hypothalamus: Neuroendocrine-Autonomic Integrator
33. Multisensory Sensory Perception and Integration
34. · 7.1. The Visual System: Two Processing Pathways
35. · 7.2. Agnosias: Paradigmatic Perceptual Dissociations
36. · 7.3. Multisensory Integration
37. Hemispheric Lateralization and Brain Specialization
38. · 8.1. Anatomical Asymmetries
39. · 8.2. Lateralized Functions
40. · 8.3. Split Brain Patients: Evidence of Specialization
41. Sleep, Wakefulness and Circadian Rhythms
42. · 9.1. Dream Architecture: Cycles and Stages
43. · 9.2. Sleep Regulation: Two Process Model (Borbély)
44. · 9.3. The Arousal System and the "Flip-Flop Switch"
45. Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences
46. · 10.1. Plasticity Levels
47. · 10.2. Critical Periods and Experience-Dependent Plasticity
48. Integration: Large Scale Networks and Functional Connectome
49. · 11.1. The Major Resting State Networks
50. · 11.2. The Tripartite Model: Salience, DMN and CEN
51. · 11.3. The Human Connectome
52. Major Neuropsychological Syndromes: Clinical Synthesis
53. · 12.1. Gerstmann syndrome
54. · 12.2. Apraxias
55. · 12.3. Frontal Lobe Syndrome: Full Spectrum
56. · 12.4. Summary Table: Syndrome → Location