Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease - Couverture rigide

Garcia-Rill, Edgar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0128013850 ISBN 13 : 9780128013854

Editeur : Academic Press Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive overview on the "activating" properties of the RAS. In health, the RAS provides the basis against which we assess the external world, and in disease it distorts that world and shatters our self-image. This book describes the physiology of each process, how it is disturbed in each disorder, and what the most appropriate treatment should be.

Dr. Garcia-Rill, along with contributions from leading specialists, discusses the understanding of the RAS as a system not only modulating waking, but also in charge of survival mechanisms such as fight vs flight responses and reflexes. The full spectrum of these functions helps explain the complexity of symptoms evident in such disorders as disparate as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. The book reviews the mechanisms that control waking and arousal, and especially how those mechanisms malfunction in certain neurological and psychiatric disorders.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill is a Professor of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also holds graduate faculty appointments in the Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences and Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program. He is the Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128013850
• ISBN 13: 9780128013854
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible