Explaining Abnormal Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

✍ Scribed by Bruce F. Pennington

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior. Bruce Pennington draws on work from multiple disciplines to identify compelling links among psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological disorders that are not generally studied together. Presenting cutting-edge work on the brain systems involved in key domains of neuropsychological functioning, Pennington sheds light on acquired neurological disorders like aphasia and amnesia, as well as the development of such conditions as schizophrenia, depression, dyslexia, autism, and intellectual disability. The book also reveals how the analysis of both typical and atypical brain-behavior relationships can contribute to a neural explanation of the self and consciousness.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Part I. What Explanations Are Possible?
Chapter 1. Scientific Explanation
Chapter 2. Placing Neuroscience in the History of Science and Philosophy
Chapter 3. History of the Localization of Function Debate
Chapter 4. How Does the Brain Compute?
Chapter 5. Classical and Contemporary Models of Abnormal Behavior
Part II. What Are the Disorders?
Chapter 6. Disorders of Perception
Chapter 7. Disorders of Attention
Chapter 8. Disorders of Language
Chapter 9. Disorders of Memory
Chapter 10. Disorders of Action Selection
Chapter 11. Disorders of State Regulation
Chapter 12. Global Disorders
Part III. What Becomes of the Self?
Chapter 13. How to Relate Self to Brain
Appendix A. Human Neocortical Regions
Appendix B. Online Resources
Glossary
References
Index