Edmund T Rolls

The Brain, Emotion, and Depression

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? The Brain, Emotion, and Depression addresses these issues and more, providing a unified approach to emotion, reward value, economic value, decision-making, and their brain mechanisms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 173mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780198832249
• ISBN-10: 0198832249
• Artikelnr.: 52959590

Autorenporträt

Professor Edmund T. Rolls performs full-time research at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, and at the University of Warwick, and has performed research and teaching for many years as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and as Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The Issues
2: The Nature of Emotion
3: The Function of Emotion: Reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design
4: The Brain Mechanisms Underlying Emotion
5: Food Reward Value, Pleasure, Appetite, Hunger, and Over-Eating
6: Pharmacology of Emotion, Reward, and Addiction: The basal ganglia
7: Sexual Behaviour, Reward, and Brain Function
8: Decision-Making and Attractor Networks
9: Depression
10: Rational vs. Emotional Routes to Action and Consciousness
11: Conclusions and Broader Issues
Glossary