Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease

Edgar Garcia-Rill

ISBN 10: 0128013850 / ISBN 13: 9780128013854

Verlag: Elsevier Science Apr 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 330 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780128013854

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease
• Verlag: Elsevier Science Apr 2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0128013850
• ISBN-13: 9780128013854
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.