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Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations

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  • Aug 2010

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Authors:
  1. Erol Başar

    1. , Brain Dynamics, Cognition, and Complex S, Istanbul Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  • This book provides a new approach to the understanding of brain-body-mind-integration based on empirical data and concepts from physiology, psychology, physics, and philosophy

  • The book proposes a new framework to integrate these branches of sciences in a new multi-dimensional “Cartesian System”

  • Includes analyses from several disciplines, such as neurophysiology, psychophysiology, neuropsychiatry, vegetative physiology, Darwinian biology, physics and philosophy

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-xxxvii
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  2. Foundations: History and Fundamental Processes in Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Brain-Body-Mind Problem: A Short Historical and Interdisciplinary Survey

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 5-21

    3. Frameworks in the Integration of the Sciences

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 23-44

  3. Whole Brain Work and a Holistic Approach to Brain-Body Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-46
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    2. Brain Structures, Transmitters, and Analyzing Strategies

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 47-69

    3. Autonomous Nervous System, Cardiovascular System, and Smooth Muscles

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 71-94

    4. Overall Myogenic-Coordination: Building Stones in the Whole-Body Integration and Tuning

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 95-105

    5. Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 107-145

    6. Dynamic Memory

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 147-177

    7. Whole-Brain Work

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 179-183

    8. Does the Brain-Body-Mind Work as a Dynamic Syncytium?

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 185-194

  4. The Brain in Different States: Evolution, Maturing, Emotion, and Pathology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-197
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    2. The Brain in Evolution of Species and Darwin’s Theory

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 199-224

    3. The Maturing Brain

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 225-236

    4. Oscillatory Dynamics of the Emotional Brain: Links of Emotion to Episodic Memory

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 237-257

    5. Pathologic Brain: Impairment of Mind Based on Break of Oscillations and Modulation of Neurotransmitter Release

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 259-297

  5. The Physics-Biology Interface: A Cartesian System for the Twenty-First Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-300
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    2. Chaos and Quantum Approach: Gateway to a Twenty-First Century Cartesian System

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 301-318

    3. The Brain in Probabilistic Hyperspace

      • Erol Başar
      Pages 319-327
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About this book

Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to scientists and graduate students in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, physiology, psychology, physics and philosophy. Its goals are the development of an empirical-analytical construct, denoted as “Reasonings to Approach the Mind”, and the comprehension of 20 principles for understanding the mind. This book amalgamates results from work on the brain, vegetative system, brains in the evolution of species, the maturing brain, dynamic memory, emotional processes, and cognitive impairment in neuro-psychiatric disorders (Alzheimer, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders). The findings are comparatively evaluated within the framework of brain oscillations and neurotransmitters. Further, a holistic approach links the brain to the cardiovascular system and overall myogenic coordination of the vegetative system. The results emphasize that EEG oscillations, ultraslow oscillations, and neurotransmitters are quasi-invariant building blocks in brain-body-mind function and also during the evolution of species: The temporal domain is where the importance of research on neural oscillators is indispensable. The core, holistic concept that emerges is that the brain, spinal cord, overall myogenic system, brain-body-oscillations, and neurotransmitters form a functional syncytium. Accordingly, the concept of “Syncytium Brain-Body-Mind” replaces the concept of “Mind”. P>

Reviews

“…reflects the new cognitive neuroscience.” --  Joaquín Fuster, UCLA

 “…a remarkable synthesis of [the author’s] life-long accomplishments in elucidating brain dynamics. … I am pleased and proud to have it on my shelf with my small library of profound works on the mind-brain concept.” -- Walter Freeman, University of California, Berkeley

 “…  represents indeed a holistic approach by oscillations … [integrating] in a multidisciplinary way knowledge and insights from a wide range of sciences and philosophy.” --  Fernando Lopes da Silva, University of Amsterdam

 “[A] very interesting and important book. … highlights that current knowledge about brain oscillations is as yet incomplete and thus will remain a subject of considerable scientific research. This book is an appropriate reference tool, not only for experienced researchers, but also for young neuroscientists and students.” – Andrew and Alexander Fingelkurts, Brain and Mind Technologies Research Centre

 “Chapter by chapter, Erol Basar develops the new idea that the brain oscillations reflect, and are the key to understand, the complex homeostatic interactions between brain and body visceral organs in the formation of the mind as the term capturing the representation of the reality and the related cognitive and affective processes. .. The finale of the story has not yet written, but readers can be sure that this book will inspire generations of neuroscientists. Furthermore, it will renew the scientific debate about the fascinating mystery of the relationships among human mind, body, and its omnipresent oscillatory activity. -- Claudio Babiloni, Università degli Studi di Foggia

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Brain Dynamics, Cognition, and Complex S, Istanbul Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Erol Başar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations

  • Authors: Erol Başar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6136-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 524

  • Number of Illustrations: 173 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Philosophy of Mind

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