The Neurology of Consciousness: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology

by Giulio Tononi and Steven Laureys

Understanding consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. One increasingly important method of studying consciousness is to study disorders of consciousness, e.g. brain damage and disease states leading to vegetative states, coma, minimally conscious states, etc. Many of these studies are very much in the public eye because of their relationship to controversies about coma patients (e.g. Terry Schiavo case in the US recently), and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123741688
• ISBN13: 9780123741684
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"