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Subject(s)

• Cognitive neuroscience [Browse]
• Brain—Physiology [Browse]

Summary note

Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychotherapy provides a bionetwork theory unifying empirical evidence in cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology to explain how emotion, learning, and reinforcement affect personality and its extremes. The book uses the theory to explain research results in both disciplines and to predict future findings, as well as to suggest what the theory and evidence say about how we should be treating disorders for maximum effectiveness. While theoretical in nature, the book has practical applications, and takes a mathematical approach to proving its own theorems.

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Front Cover; Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: Network Principles for a Unified Theory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Section 1 - Theoretical Unification; Part One - The Problem; Chapter 1 - Introduction; OUR EXPLANATORY PROBLEM; PREVIEW; PRELIMINARY ISSUES; THEORETICAL DISUNIFICATION; NEED FOR EXPLANATION; THEORETICAL ISSUES; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 2 - Issues and Impediments to Theoretical Unification; PREVIOUS PROPOSALS; CURRENT TRENDS; IMPEDIMENTS AGAINST THEORETICAL UNIFICATION; REASONS AGAINST UNIFICATION; CONCLUSIONS; Part Two - A Proposed Solution
• Chapter 3 - Core Network Principles: The Explanatory NucleusGENERIC CONNECTIONIST NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; PRINCIPLE 1: UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING VIA THE NETWORK CASCADE; PRINCIPLE 2: LEARNING AND MEMORY; PRINCIPLE 4: ACTIVATION AND REACTIVATION; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 4 - Corollary Network Principles; PRINCIPLE 5: PRIMING; PRINCIPLE 6: PART-WHOLE PATTERN COMPLETION; PRINCIPLE 7: CONSONANCE AND DISSONANCE; PRINCIPLE 8: DISSONANCE INDUCTION AND REDUCTION; PRINCIPLE 9: MEMORY SUPERPOSITION; PRINCIPLE 10: PROTOTYPE FORMATION; PRINCIPLE 11: GRACEFUL DEGRADATION
• PRINCIPLE 12: TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP PROCESSINGNETWORK THEORY; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 5 - Emotion; HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE; SUBCORTICAL BRAIN CENTERS; MORE ABOUT UNCONSCIOUS EMOTION; EMOTION AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; CIRCUMPLEX STRUCTURE; BASIC EMOTIONS; THE CIRCUMPLEX EMOTION COLOR WHEEL AND SOLID; SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EMOTIONS; ENCODING EMOTIONS IN CONNECTIONIST NETWORKS; EMOTION AND ILLNESS; EMOTION AND BIRD SONG; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 6 - Simulating Psychological Phenomena and Disorders; NEW TOOLS AND METHODS; SIMULATED PHENOMENA
• PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERSCONCLUSIONS; Part Three - Evaluation: Criticisms & Rebuttals; Chapter 7 - Evaluation, Criticisms, and Rebuttals; CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THEORIES; TYPES OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE; A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION; ASSESSING THEORETICAL UNIFICATION; CRITICISMS AND REBUTTALS; MATHEMATICAL PROOF; THEORETICAL UNIFICATION; MATURE SCIENCE; CONCLUSIONS; Section 2 -Psychotherapy Integration; Chapter 8 - Psychotherapy Integration: Problems and Issues; PSYCHOTHERAPY PROLIFERATION; OUR TRAINING PROBLEM; EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED TREATMENT ISSUE; MOTIVES FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
• NEED FOR EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED PRINCIPLES (ESPS)PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION VIA THEORETICAL UNIFICATION; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 9 - Clinical Applications of Principle 1: Unconscious Processing; A BRIEF HISTORY OF UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING; UNCONSCIOUS-CENTRIC ORIENTATION; CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING; UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS; SYMPTOM SUBSTITUTION; ASSESSING UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING; INSIGHT AS PSYCHOLOGICAL MINDEDNESS; MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; GANDHI NEURON SYSTEM; MENTALIZING NEURON SYSTEM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; OXYTOCIN; CONCLUSIONS
• Chapter 10 - Clinical Applications of Principle 2: Learning and Memory

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ISBN

0-12-420098-2

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