Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease - Hardcover

Garcia-Rill, Edgar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128013850 ISBN 13: 9780128013854

Publisher: Academic Press, 2015

Synopsis

Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive overview on the “activating properties of the RAS. In health, the RAS provides the basis against which we assess the external world, and in disease it distorts that world and shatters our self-image. This book describes the physiology of each process, how it is disturbed in each disorder, and what the most appropriate treatment should be.

Dr. Garcia-Rill, along with contributions from leading specialists, discusses the understanding of the RAS as a system not only modulating waking, but also in charge of survival mechanisms such as fight vs flight responses and reflexes. The full spectrum of these functions helps explain the complexity of symptoms evident in such disorders as disparate as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. The book reviews the mechanisms that control waking and arousal, and especially how those mechanisms malfunction in certain neurological and psychiatric disorders.

• First comprehensive overview on the RAS and its role in schizophrenia, major depression, autism, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other neurologic and mental diseases
• Offers a new way of thinking about brain function and the role of the RAS in our waking lives
• Written by a leading translational neuroscience researcher with contributions by specialists in the field

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Review:

A comprehensive overview addressing the mechanisms that control waking and arousal and how these mechanisms malfunction in certain neurological and psychiatric disorders

About the Author:

Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill is a Professor of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also holds graduate faculty appointments in the Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences and Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program. He is the Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128013850
• ISBN 13: 9780128013854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330