Brain Control [electronic resource] : Developments in Therapy and Implications for Society /
Linden, D.author.
Interest in techniques to control the brain and thereby improve its function has surged, yet how realistic are these expectations and what are the ethical implications? This book reviews the main techniques of controlling brain processes for medical purposes, situating them within ethical and legal debates on autonomy and fairness.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Putting the Brain in Control: From Brain Reading to Brain Communication; 1.1 Locked-in; 1.2 Motor control: from brain to muscle; 1.3 The electric brain; 1.4 The biggest network in the universe; 1.5 Conditioning the brain; 1.6 Brain computer interfaces and communication; 1.7 Detecting conscious states; 1.8 Reading thoughts directly from the brain; 1.9 The brain controls a robot; 2 External Control of the Brain: Brain Stimulation and Psychiatric Surgery
2.1 Fits and faints: the network out of control2.2 Limbic circuits: memory and emotions in the brain; 2.3 History of brain stimulation; 2.4 The shaking palsy; 2.5 DBS and Parkinson's disease; 2.6 DBS for other movement disorders: tremor and dystonia; 2.7 Phantom limb pain and DBS; 2.8 DBS and personality; 2.9 Psychiatric surgery: from lobotomy to stereotactic control of behaviour; 2.10 Psychiatric surgery today; 2.11 Will DBS replace psychiatric surgery?; 3 The Brain Controls Itself: From Brain Reading to Brain Modulation via Neurofeedback; 3.1 Biofeedback and therapy: the beginnings
3.2 Training elite musicians and surgeons3.3 Clinical biofeedback today; 3.4 Neurofeedback: deep brain stimulation without surgery?; 3.5 Neurofeedback: psychotherapy without therapist?; 3.6. Can neurofeedback improve Parkinson's disease?; 3.7 Neurofeedback and neurorehabilitation; 4 The Ethics and Politics of Brain Control; 4.1 Brain control in neurology and psychiatry; 4.2 The ethics of psychiatric surgery; 4.3 Mind control and society; 4.4 Illness and conformity; 4.5 Social myopia: exclusive focus on organic causes?; 4.6 Preventive surgery?; 4.7 Ethics of DBS
4.8 DBS in patients who are unable to provide consent4.9 Ethics of BCIs; 4.10 Ethics of neurofeedback; 4.11 Outlook; Glossary; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interest in techniques to control the brain and thereby improve its function has surged, yet how realistic are these expectations and what are the ethical implications? This book reviews the main techniques of controlling brain processes for medical purposes, situating them within ethical and legal debates on autonomy and fairness.
Clinical psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Neuropsychology.
Psychology, Pathological.
Psychiatry.
Neurology .
Clinical Psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
Neuropsychology.
Psychopathology.
Psychiatry.
Neurology.