Comparative neuropsychology and brain imaging
By: edited by David Emmans and Arto Laihinen
Contributors: Halsband, Ulrike, series editor
Series: Neuropsychology an interdisciplinary approach = -- Neuropsychologie - interdisziplinär -- Band/Volume 2; Neuropsychology an interdisciplinary approach = Neuropsychologie - interdisziplinär -- volume 2
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9783643906533
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Clinical neuropsychology; Brain; Imaging; Neuropsychology
Description: This volume is a special commemorative publication in honor of Professor Dr. Ulrike Halsband, from the University of Freiburg in Germany, on the  occasion of her 60th birthday, and includes chapters specially written for the volume, with recent views, reviews and results on such fields as functioneuroanatomytomy, neuropsychology, education, animal behavior, altered states of consciousness, hypnosis and the history of psychology in Germany. The contributors are internationally well-known scholars from academic and clinical institutions abroad in Europe. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-468).
Table of contents: title: Preface. Part 1 Functional neuroanatomy: Higher-order motor areas in the frontal cortex, how do we use them? / Jun Tanji; title: Hand and face observation and the role of frontal areas for emotional appraisal / Martin Lotze; title: Towards a representational understanding of medial temporal lobe processing / Patric Meyer and Herta Flor; title: On the neuroanatomical parcellation and multiple functions of the inferior parietal lobule / Juliane Klann, Ferdinand Christoph Binkofski and Svenja Caspers; title: Role of the first and second person perspective for control of behaviour, understanding other people's facial expressions / Denise Potthoff and Rudiger J. Seitz. Part 2 Clinical neuropsychology, brain dysfunction and neurorehabilitation: Neurophysiological assessment and brain-communication in non-responsiveness and paralysis / Boris Kotchoubey, Ujwal Chaudhary, Francesco Piccione and Niels Birbaumer; title: Correlation between aging, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease studied with MRI, FDG-PET and PIB-PET / Juha O. Rinne; title: Voluntary movement deficits of eyes and limbs, neuroanatomy and diagnosis / Styrmir Saevarsson and Árni Kristjánsson; title: Functional connectivity changes in BPD / Arun D'Souza; title: Borderzones of neurorehabilitation, a personal statement / Arto Laihinen. Part 3 Neuropsychology, a bridge to the sciences, arts and education: Neuropsychology and dentistry, is there any connection? / Tíbor Károly Fábiàn, Anita Beck, Wolf-Rainer Krause, Pál Fejérdy, Péter Hermann, Gábor Fábiàn; title: Neuropsychology of asymmetrical visual aesthetic preferences across European and Asian cultures / Mohammadsaeid Marandi; title: What does neuroscience tell us about how to help children with mathematical difficulties? / Ann Dowker. Part 4 Animal behaviour and pet ownership relationships: Comparing individuals within and across situations, groups and species, metatheoretical and methodological foundations demonstrated in primate behaviour / Jana Uher; title: Beneficial effects of pet ownership on human health, the influence of caretakers' attachment style and personality as well as dog's personality and behavior / Corinna Buderer, Verena Schreiner and Rainer Wohlfarth. Part 5 Altered states of consciousness: How does hypnosis heal? Change in an ego-free status / Dirk Revenstorf; title: State after removal of a meningeoma, mental rehabilitation with the support of hypnosis, case study / Hans Riebensahm and Francesca Scarpinato-Hirt; title: Basics, models, and visions / Thilo Hinterberger. Part 6 History of experimental psychology and clinical neuroscience: Whilhelm Wundts neuropsychologie / Jochen Fahrenberg; title: The role of psychologists for the clinical neurosciences / Hans-Joachim Freund. References. Key words.