Neural Modeling of Brain and Cognitive Disorders

During the last few years there has been a rapidly increasing interest in neural modeling of brain and cognitive disorders. This multidisciplinary book presents a variety of such models in neurology, neuropsychology and psychiatry. A review of work in this area is given first. Computational models are then presented of memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease, functional brain reorganization following a stroke, patterns of neural activity in epilepsy, disruption of language...
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During the last few years there has been a rapidly increasing interest in neural modeling of brain and cognitive disorders. This multidisciplinary book presents a variety of such models in neurology, neuropsychology and psychiatry. A review of work in this area is given first. Computational models are then presented of memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease, functional brain reorganization following a stroke, patterns of neural activity in epilepsy, disruption of language processes in aphasia and acquired dyslexia, altered cognitive processes in schizophrenia and depression, and related disorders. This is the first book on this topic, with contributions from many of the leading researchers in this field.
Contents: Modeling Brain and Cognitive Disorders "(J A Reggia et al.)"Computational Studies of Synaptic Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease "(E Ruppin et al.)"Distributed Representations of Semantic Knowledge in the Brain: Computational Experiments Using Feature Based Codes "(S L Small et al.)"Connections and Disconnections: A Connectionist Account of Surface Dyslexia "(K Patterson et al.)"Simulation of Neurogenic Reading Disorders with a Dual-Route Connectionist Model "(C S Whitney et al.)"Phantom Limbs, Self-Organizing Feature Maps, and Noise-Driven Neuroplasticity "(M Spitzer)"Functional Versus Structural Damage in Multi-Infarct Dementia: A Computational Study "(E Ruppin & J A Reggia)"Minimal Biophysical Models of Oscillations and Waves in Thalamus and Hippocampus "(D Colomb & J Rinzel)"Modeling Cortical Disorders Using Nested Networks "(J P Sutton)"Modeling Dysfunction of the Prefrontal Executive System "(D S Levine)"Neural Networks, Cortical Connectivity and Schizophrenic Psychosis "(R E Hoffman)"and other papers
Readership: Medical professionals, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and neural modellers.