This book presents a
complete account of the 18th International Taniguchi Symposium on Brain
Sciences, held on the island of Hawaii, February 5-8, 1995. The first part
of this comprehensive volume examines emotion, including the limbic
system, animal models of autism, the neuronal mechanism of emotion and
behavior, and a PET study on depression. The second section focuses on the
brain mechanisms of memory and covers the hippocampal place code,
long-term and short-term memory, and neuro-psychological studies on
amnesic patients. The final part covers brain mechanisms of normal and
abnormal behavior, visual processing within the temporal cortex,
perception of geometric illusions, inhibition and facilitation of
visual-motor links, self-mutilation, and a neuroanatomical study on
cognitive aging. A neurochemical study on sleep and wakefulness is
included. This reference will be useful in furthering not only basic
neuroscience but also neuropsychiatry in years to come.
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