Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain : Probing Cognition Hardback
Edited by Itzhak (UCLA School of Medicine) Fried, Ueli (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Rutishauser, Moran (Northwestern University) Cerf, Gabriel (Childrens Hospital Boston) Kreiman
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Foundational studies of the activities of spiking neurons in the awake and behaving human brain and the insights they yield into cognitive and clinical phenomena.
In the last decade, the synergistic interaction of neurosurgeons, engineers, and neuroscientists, combined with new technologies, has enabled scientists to study the awake, behaving human brain directly.
These developments allow cognitive processes to be characterized at unprecedented resolution: single neuron activity.
Direct observation of the human brain has already led to major insights into such aspects of brain function as perception, language, sleep, learning, memory, action, imagery, volition, and consciousness.
In this volume, experts document the successes, challenges, and opportunity in an emerging field. The book presents methodological tutorials, with chapters on such topics as the surgical implantation of electrodes and data analysis techniques; describes novel insights into cognitive functions including memory, decision making, and visual imagery; and discusses insights into diseases such as epilepsy and movement disorders gained from examining single neuron activity.
Finally, contributors consider future challenges, questions that are ripe for investigation, and exciting avenues for translational efforts. ContributorsRalph Adolphs, William S. Anderson, Arjun K. Bansal, Eric J. Behnke, Moran Cerf, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky, Emad N. Eskandar, Tony A. Fields, Itzhak Fried, Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv, C. Rory Goodwin, Clement Hamani, Chris Heller, Mojgan Hodaie, Matthew Howard III, William D.
Hutchison, Matias Ison, Hiroto Kawasaki, Christof Koch, Rudiger Koehling, Gabriel Kreiman, Michel Le Van Quyen, Frederick A.
Lenz, Andres M. Lozano, Adam N. Mamelak, Clarissa Martinez-Rubio, Florian Mormann, Yuval Nir, George Ojemann, Shaun R.
Patel, Sanjay Patra, Linda Philpott, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Ian Ross, Ueli Rutishauser, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Erin M.
Schuman, Demetrio Sierra-Mercado, Richard J. Staba, Nanthia Suthana, William Sutherling, Travis S.
Tierney, Giulio Tononi, Oana Tudusciuc, Charles L. Wilson
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- Pages:376 pages, 73 b&w illus., 6 tables, 16 color plates; 89 Illustrations, unspecified
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- ISBN:9780262027205