Disorders of volition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (503 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Schizophrenia; Will; Mental illness
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 44.91
• Altri autori: SebanzNatalie PrinzWolfgang <1942->
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1 - Toward a Science of Volition; I - Conceptual Foundations; 2 - Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis; 3 - The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency; 4 - Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency; 5 - Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint; 6 - A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control; 7 - If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions; II - Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia ; 8 - From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognitionand Its Failures9 - Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia; 10 - Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging; 11 - Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia; III - Disorders of Volition in Depression; 12 - Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression; 13 - Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory; 14 - The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression ; IV - Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage15 - The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action; 16 - Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex; 17 - Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World?; V - Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse; 18 - Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers; 19 - Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking; 20 - A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior; List of Contributors ; Author IndexSubject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substanc.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disorders of volition
• ISBN: 1-282-09777-6; 9786612097775; 0-262-28335-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454658503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II