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Dec 2002
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ISBN
0262083094
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| 810 pp.
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| 119 illus.
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| The Asymmetrical Brain |
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Kenneth Hugdahl
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Richard J. Davidson
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The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Research shows that asymmetries exist at all levels of the nervous system and apply to emotional as well as to higher cognitive processes. Going beyond the authors' previous book, Brain Asymmetry, this book reflects the most recent thinking on functional asymmetries and their structural correlates in brain anatomy. It emphasizes research using new neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI and fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). It also considers clinical applications of asymmetry research. The book contains sections on animal models and basic functions, neuroimaging and brain stimulation studies, visual laterality, auditory laterality, emotional laterality, neurological disorders, and psychiatric disorders.
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| Table of Contents |
| | Preface |
| I | | Animal Models/ Basic Functions |
| 1 | | Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Visual System of Birds
by Onur Gunturnkun |
| 2 | | A Hippocampal Theory of Cerebral Lateralization
by Akaysha C. Tang |
| 3 | | Stress and Coping: Asymmetry of Dopamine Efferents within the Prefrontal Cortex
by Craig W. Berridge, Rodrigo A. Espana, and Thomas A. Stalnaker |
| 4 | | The Nature and Determinants of Handedness
by Alan A. Beaton |
| II | | Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation Studies |
| 5 | | Characterizing Functional Asymmetries with Brain Mapping
by Karl J. Friston |
| 6 | | Anatomical Brain Asymmetries and Their Relevance for Functional Asymmetries
by Lutz Jancke and Helmuth Steinmetz |
| 7 | | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies of Asymmetry of Cognitive Functions in the Brain
by Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Vincent Walsh |
| III | | Visual Laterality |
| 8 | | Interaction between the Hemispheres and Its Implications for the Processing Capacity of the Brain
by Marie T. Banich |
| 9 | | Asymmetries in Encoding Spatial Relations
by Bruno Laeng, Christopher F. Chabris, and Stephen M. Kosslyn |
| 10 | | Complexities of Interhemispheric Communication in Sensorimotor Tasks Revealed by High Density Event-Related Potential Mapping
by Clifford D. Saron, John J. Foxe, Charles E. Schrodeder, and Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr. |
| | IV Emotional Laterality |
| 11 | | Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Processing of Tonal Stimuli
by Robert J. Zatorre |
| 12 | | Dichotic Listening in the Study of Auditory Laterality
by Kenneth Hugdahl |
| 13 | | Effects of Attention on Hemispheric Asymmetry
by Daniel S. O'Leary |
| V | | Emotional Laterality |
| 14 | | The Functional Neuroimaging of Human Emotion: Asymmetric Contributions of Cortical and Subcortical Circuitry
by Diego Pizzagalli, Alexander J. Shackman, and Richard J. Davidson |
| 15 | | Regional Brain Activity in Anxiety and Depression, Cognition/Emotion Interaction, and Emotion Regulation
by Wendy Heller, Nancy S. Koven, and Gregory A. Miller |
| 16 | | The State and Trait Nature of Frontal EEG Asymmetry in Emotion
by James A. Coan and John J. B. Allen |
| | VI Neurological Disorders |
| 17 | | Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
by Maryse Lassonde and Hannelore C. Sauerwein |
| 18 | | Developmental Disorders: Dyslexia
by Mark A. Eckert and Christiana M. Leonard |
| 19 | | Structural Correlates of Brain Asymmetry: Studies in Left-Handed and Dyslexic Individuals
by Michel Habib and Fabrice Robichon |
| VII | | Psychiatric Disorders: Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum |
| 20 | | Frontal and Parietemporal Asymmetries in Depressive Disorders: Behavioral, Electrophysiologic, and Neuroimaging Findings
by Gerard E. Bruder |
| 21 | | The Laterality of Schizophrenia
by Michael F. Green, Mark J. Sergi, and Robert S. Kern |
| | Contributors |
| | Author Index |
| | Subject Index |
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