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Neurochemistry of Consciousness: Neurotransmitters in mindEdited by Elaine K. Perry, Heather Ashton and Allan H. Young
[Advances in Consciousness Research 36] 2002
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Heather Ashton and Allan H. Young
[Advances in Consciousness Research 36] 2002
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Prefacexi
I. Neurotransmitter Systems1
1. Neurotransmitter networks
2. Cholinergic transmission: Novel signal transduction
II. Natural Alterations of Consciousness41
3. Attention
4. Memory
5. Motivation: Reward and punishment systems
6. Sleep: Slow wave and non-REM stages
7. Dreaming: Cholinergic and dopaminergic hypotheses
8. Dreaming: Monoaminergic disinhibition hypothesis
III. Drug-Induced Alterations in Consciousness147
9. General anesthetics
10. Effects of drugs on sleep
11. Neuroleptics
12. Delirium and hallucinations
13. Plants of the gods: Ethnic routes to altered consciousness
IV. Brain Pathology and Consciousness227
14. Alzheimer’s disease: Focus on the cholinergic system
15. Parkinson’s disease
16. Dementia with Lewy bodies: A disorder of consciousness?
17. Schizophrenia
18. Mood disorders
19. Mental retardation and autism
Envoi
Index
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