Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior

✍ Scribed by Victor S. Johnston (auth.), Henri Begleiter (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 572
• Series: The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and Psychology 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the second in "The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry." It is aseries devoted to the presentation of sig­ nificant research with relevance for both clinicians and researchers in the multiple subfields of psychiatry. This book focuses on the interactions between psychic phenomena and physical processes as studied by evoked brain potentials. It presents material concerned with physiological and psychological unifying processes, as weIl as research concerning technology and methods of obtaining meaningful measurements. As such it is representative of biological psychiatry at its best. Thus, it represents another step in new directions in psychiatric research but not an unanticipated direction. Scientific investigation into the human psyche took an unex­ pected turn when Sigmund Freud in the last part of the 19th Century turned his attention from neurological concerns to those of psychol­ ogy. His first attempts at explanations as noted in the "project," included a heavy emphasis on the biological substrate of behavior.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages xiii-xiii
Stimuli with Biological Significance....Pages 1-12
Event-related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing....Pages 13-88
Neuroelectrical Correlates of Semantic Processes....Pages 89-106
P300 -- Thirteen Years Later....Pages 107-126
Visual Evoked Potentials and Affective Ratings of Semantic Stimuli....Pages 127-141
Functional Landscapes of the Brain: An Electrotopographic Perspective....Pages 143-169
Connotative Meaning and Averaged Evoked Potentials....Pages 171-196
Cognition and the Brain....Pages 197-228
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Electrophysiological Assessments in Mentally Retarded Individuals: From Brainstem to Cortex....Pages 229-245
The Use of Evoked Response Procedures in Studies of Reading Disability....Pages 247-268
Brain Dysfunction and Evoked Potentials....Pages 269-275
Visual Evoked Potentials and Brain Dysfunction in Chronic Alcoholics....Pages 277-302
Relationships between Behavioral and Electrocortical Responses of Aphasic and Non-aphasic Brain-damaged Adults to Semantic Materials....Pages 303-320
The Evoked Response as a Measure of Cerebral Dysfunction....Pages 321-363
Evoked Potentials in Patients with Neurological Disorders....Pages 365-384
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Auditory Evoked Potentials in Children at High Risk for Schizophrenia....Pages 385-400
An Evoked Potential Study of Endogenous Affective Disorders in Alcoholics....Pages 401-417
Auditory Evoked Potentials and Psychopathology....Pages 419-435
A Neurophysiology of Mind?....Pages 437-446
Signal-to-noise Ratio and Response Variability in Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia....Pages 447-465
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Sensory Evoked Potentials in Psychosis....Pages 467-498
Late Event-related Potentials and Schizophrenia....Pages 499-515
Schizophrenia and Evoked Potentials....Pages 517-523
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
Neurophysiological Correlates of Central Masking....Pages 525-544
Basis Functions in the Analysis of Evoked Potentials....Pages 545-561
Back Matter....Pages 563-568

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences