Complex Brain Functions: Conceptual Advances in Russian Neuroscience

by Miller; Robert

• ISBN13: 9789058230218
• ISBN10: 905823021X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135287788
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-30
• Publisher: CRC Press
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Summary

There are many difficulties hindering western scientists from becoming acquainted with Russian scientific literature, including both political and language barriers. Russian science has a long and proud tradition going back as far as Peter the Great and the founding of the Russian Academy of Science in 1725. However, Russian neuroscientists from the 19th and 20th centuries are hardly recognised in the western world.Complex Brain Functions covers many avenues of contemporary research in Russian neuroscience. The chapters range from basic research at the cellular level to studies of higher brain functions in animals and humans, including psychopharmacology and neurochemistry and the brain basis of human mental functions as well as papers with a more philosophical content.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	xiii
Volume Transmission in the Striatum as Constituting Information Processing	1	(20)
N.B. Saulskaya
Unitary Postsynaptic Mechanisms of LTP and LTD in the Neocortex, Hippocampus and Cerebellum	21	(32)
I.G. Silkis
Memory Consolidation: Narrowing the Gap Between Systems and Molecular Genetics Neurosciences	53	(20)
K.V. Anokhin
Informational Synthesis in Crucial Cortical Areas, as the Brain Basis of Subjective Experience	73	(24)
A.M. Ivanitsky
Nature of Sensory Awareness: The Hypothesis of Self-identification	97	(16)
V.Ya. Sergin
Brain Mechanisms of Emotions	113	(16)
P.V. Simonov
The Functional Significance of High-frequency Components of Brain Electrical Activity	129	(22)
V.N. Dumenko
EEG Mapping in Emotional and Cognitive Pathology	151	(18)
V.B. Strelets
Brain Organization of Selective Tasks Preceding Attention: Ontogenetic Aspects	169	(12)
N.V. Dubrovinskaya
R.I. Machinskaya
Yu.V. Kulakovsky
Formation and Realization of Individual Experience in Humans and Animals: A Psychological Approach	181	(20)
Yu.I. Alexandrov
T.N. Grechenko
V.V. Gavrilov
A.G. Gorkin
D.G. Shevchenko
Yu.V. Grinchenko
I.O. Aleksandrov
N.E. Maksimova
B.N. Bezdenezhnych
M.V. Bodunov
Applicability of the Reinforcement Concept to Studies in Simple Nervous Systems	201	(12)
P.M. Balaban
Sensory Factors in the Ontogenetic Reorganization of Behaviour	213	(20)
V.V. Raevsky
L.I. Alexandrov
T.B. Golubeva
E.V. Korneeva
I.E. Kudriashov
I.V. Kudriashova
Colour Spaces of Animal-trichromats (Rhesus Monkeys and Carp), Revealed by Instrumental Discrimination Learning	233	(14)
A.V. Latanov
A.Yu. Leonova
D.V. Evtikhin
E.N. Sokolov
Neurobiology of Gestalts	247	(16)
E.N. Sokolov
The Striatal Cholinergic System and Instrumental Behaviour	263	(26)
K.B. Shapovalova
The Motor Cortex Inhibits Synergies Interfering with a Learned Movement: Reorganization of Postural Coordination in Dogs	289	(12)
M.E. Ioffe
Biochemical Correlates of Individual Behaviour	301	(16)
N.V. Gulyaeva
M.Yu. Stepanichev
Brain Serotonin in Genetically Defined Defensive Behaviour	317	(14)
N.K. Popova
Index	331