BookDonald Pfaff.
Summary: This concise, ground-breaking book expands past theories limited to the cerebral cortex and emphasizes the longitudinally-integrated brainstem systems that 'wake up the brain' from deep anesthesia, sleep and brain injury. For neurologists, neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as readers interested in the workings of the brain.
Contents:
Introduction
Concept
Giant cells in the medullary reticular formation
Pons
Midbrain
Hypothalamus: low road
Thalamus: high road
High arousal
Phase transitions from low GA states
Roots of consciousness and its disorders
A vertically integrated system.