New Horizons in the Neuroscience of ConsciousnessElaine K. Perry A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested in exploring consciousness. Contributions from top researchers in consciousness and related fields project diverse ideas, focused mainly on conscious nonconscious interactions: 1. Paving the way for new research on basic scientific - physiological, pharmacological or neurochemical - mechanisms underpinning conscious experience ( bottom up approach); 2. Providing directions on how psychological processes are involved in consciousness ( top down approach); 3. Indicating how including consciousness could lead to new understanding of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and addiction; 4. More provocatively, but still based on scientific evidence, exploring consciousness beyond conventional boundaries, indicating the potential for radical new thinking or quantum leaps in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. (Series B)" |
Contents
The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness | 3 |
Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large neuronal synchronization | 17 |
Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? | 29 |
Dopamine modulation of decision making processes | 39 |
The endocannabinoid system | 53 |
The neuroscience of general anaesthesia | 65 |
Consciousness and neural time travel | 73 |
II Psychological processes | 81 |
Why depression feels bad | 169 |
Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness | 179 |
Consciousness as the spinoff and schizophrenia as the price of language | 187 |
Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia | 201 |
Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome | 215 |
The reciprocal nature of consciousness | 227 |
Connecting states of consciousness | 239 |
Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational EcstasyMDMA users | 249 |
Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory | 83 |
Two varieties of unconscious processes | 91 |
Operating characteristics and awareness | 103 |
Noise in the brain decisionmaking determinism free will and consciousness | 113 |
Social consciousness | 121 |
A processing perspective | 129 |
From magic to science | 139 |
Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research | 149 |
Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness | 155 |
III Psychopathologies and therapies | 167 |
Conscious and unconscious placebo responses | 259 |
IV Expanding boundaries | 269 |
The paradoxes of creativity | 271 |
Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness | 281 |
Selfinduced altered states of consciousness | 289 |
Beyond the boundaries of the brain | 301 |
Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys | 309 |
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