Visceral Sensory Neuroscience: Interoception

by Jonathan Abrams, Oliver G. Cameron, W.D. Hamilton

Book Overview

It has been known for over a century that there is an afferent(body-to-brain), as well as an efferent(brain-to-body), component to the visceral-atonomic nervous system. Despite the fundamental importance of bodily afferent information- sometimes called interoception- to central nervous system control of visceral organ function, emotional-motivational processes, and dysfunction of these processes, including psychosomatic disorders, its role did not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195136012
• ISBN13: 9780195136012
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"