Edmund Rolls

Orbitofrontal Cortex

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'The Orbitofrontal Cortex' explores a part of the brain that is important in human emotion, pleasure, decision-making, valuation, and personality. The book is unique in providing a coherent multidisciplinary approach to understanding the functions of one of the most interesting regions of the human brain, in both health and in disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780198845997
• ISBN-10: 0198845995
• Artikelnr.: 55471811

Autorenporträt

Professor Edmund T. Rolls performs full-time research at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, and at the University of Warwick, and has performed research and teaching for many years as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and as Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction to the orbitofrontal cortex
2: Orbitofrontal cortex: anatomy and connections
3: Orbitofrontal cortex processing: neurophysiology and neuroimaging
4: Orbitofrontal cortex damage effects in humans and other primates
5: Orbitofrontal cortex output pathways: cingulate cortex, basal ganglia, and dopamine
6: Orbitofrontal cortex and emotion
7: The orbitofrontal cortex, depression, and other mental disorders
8: The rodent orbitofrontal cortex
9: Orbitofrontal cortex computations in a systems-level perspective
10: Synthesis: the Roles of the Orbitofrontal Cortex