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Petr Bob - The Brain and Conscious Unity. Freud's Omega.  - 9781493945573 - V9781493945573
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The Brain and Conscious Unity. Freud's Omega.

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Description for The Brain and Conscious Unity. Freud's Omega. Paperback. Num Pages: 142 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR; PHVN; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 232.

In this provocative text, a noted neuroscientist reexamines Freud's posthumously published  Project of Scientific Psychology in the light of modern neuroscience. This expanded "thermodynamics of the mind" model includes robust conceptions of the cellular and neural processes that accompany creation of consciousness and memory, their contributions to such conditions as depression, dissociative disorders, and schizophrenia, and implications for practice, from imaging to talk-based therapies to pharmacotherapy. Central to this construct is Freud's proposal of specific "omega" neurons as the most volatile carriers of consciousness between mind and brain, which is applied to current issues regarding complexity and executive functioning. In ... Read more

Among the topics covered:

Neural reductionism in Freud's "Project" and neuropsychoanalysis.

  • Thermodynamics and brain self-organization.
  • Conflicting information and the dissociated mind.
  • The Cartesian model of the mind and the binding problem.
  • Neuroendocrine and immune response to stress.
  • The concept of omega neurons and modern chaos theory.

Rigorous, challenging, and occasionally startling, The Brain and Conscious Unity is a milestone in the neuroscience and mind/brain literature to be read and discussed by psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuropsychologists.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
Number of Pages
133
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493945573
SKU
V9781493945573
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About Petr Bob
Petr Bob, Ph.D. is a researcher in psychology and neuroscience at the Center for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress in the Department of Psychiatry, First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of two recently published books Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Advances in Neuroscience Research (Springer, 2011) and Brain and Dissociated Mind (Nova Science, 2009) and ... Read more

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