The Paradoxical Brain

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Narinder Kapur
Cambridge University Press, Jul 21, 2011 - Psychology - 466 pages
The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: • Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss • Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions • Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development • Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease • Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will lead to a better understanding of brain function and to the introduction of new therapeutic strategies. The book will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 The paradoxical nature of nature
1
Chapter 2 Paradoxical effects of sensory loss
14
Chapter 3 Paradoxical functional facilitation and recovery in neurological and psychiatric conditions
40
Chapter 4 Paradoxes in neurorehabilitation
74
Chapter 5 The paradoxical self
94
Chapter 6 Paradoxical psychological functioning in early child development
110
a positive perspective
130
Chapter 8 Paradoxes of learning and memory
151
two examples of paradox in neuroepidemiology
261
why does disability sometimes give rise to talent?
274
Chapter 16 Paradoxes in creativity and psychiatric conditions
289
Chapter 17 The paradox of psychosurgery to treat mental disorders
301
Chapter 18 The paradox of electroconvulsive therapy
321
Chapter 19 Paradoxes of comparative cognition
332
Chapter 20 Paradoxical phenomena in brain plasticity
350
Chapter 21 Immature neurons in the adult brain Breaking all the rules
365

why experts get it wrong
177
Chapter 10 Paradoxes in Parkinsons disease and other movement disorders
189
Chapter 11 Paradoxical phenomena in epilepsy
204
Chapter 12 Paradoxical creativity and adjustment in neurological conditions
221
Chapter 13 Paradoxical functional facilitation with noninvasive brain stimulation
234
when forgetting helps learning
379
Paradoxical effects of drugs on cognitive function the neuropsychopharmacology of the dopamine and other neurotransmitter systems
397
Chapter 24 The paradoxical brain so what?
418
Index
435
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Narinder Kapur is Visiting Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London and Honorary Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Southampton. He was formerly Head of the Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Berenson–Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA.

Vilayanur Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of San Diego, California and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute, San Diego, USA.

Jonathan Cole is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton and Professor, University of Bournemouth, UK.

Sergio Della Sala is Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Tom Manly is a researcher for the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.

Andrew Mayes is Professor, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.

Oliver Sacks is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA.

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