Neurosciences: Higher Brain Functions and Integration

Neurosciences · Basic Sciences

How it begins

Análisis exhaustivo de los sustratos neurobiológicos de la cognición humana, desde la citoarquitectura cortical hasta los circuitos de integración multimodal y sus correlatos clínicos.

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