How Brain Arousal Mechanisms Work: Paths Toward Consciousness

by Donald W. Pfaff

What are the physical paths towards consciousness? How do humans transition out of deep anesthesia, deep sleep, or traumatic brain injury? This book presents a new argument that expands past theories centered on the cerebral cortex, and instead emphasizes the longitudinally-integrated brainstem systems that are essential to the mechanism of consciousness. The workings of these vertical pathways that 'wake up the brain' are examined in neurobiological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108433332
• ISBN13: 9781108433334
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"