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• Title:Brain control : developments in therapy and implications for society / David Linden.
  
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• Author/Creator:Linden, David, 1968- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  ©2014
  

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  • Call Number: WL368 .L744b 2014
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Brain stimulation.
  Biofeedback training.
  Psychosurgery.
  Brain--Localization of functions.
  Neurosciences--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Neurosciences--Social aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Brain Diseases--surgery.
  Deep Brain Stimulation.
  
• Description:viii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (Social Sciences Collection)
  
• Summary:"With the burden of brain disorders increasing worldwide, there has been a resurgence of interest in techniques to control the brain and thereby improve its function. Yet how realistic are these expectations and what are the ethical implications? This book reviews the main techniques that can enable patients to use their brains for communication and control and doctors to modify brain function. It explains how paralysed patients may be helped through brain reading, how brain stimulation can help to improve Parkinson's disease and certain mental disorders and how patients can be trained to regulate their own brain activity through neurofeedback. Brain Control situates the application of these techniques within ethical and legal debates on the principles of autonomy and fairness, and suggests ethical standards for their future development"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781137335326 (hardback)
  1137335327 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Putting the Brain in Control: From Brain Reading to Brain Communication
  1.1. Locked-in
  1.2. Motor control: from brain to muscle
  1.3. electric brain
  1.4. biggest network in the universe
  1.5. Conditioning the brain
  1.6. Brain computer interfaces and communication
  1.7. Detecting conscious states
  1.8. Reading thoughts directly from the brain
  1.9. brain controls a robot
  2. External Control of the Brain: Brain Stimulation and Psychiatric Surgery
  2.1. Fits and faints: the network out of control
  2.2. Limbic circuits: memory and emotions in the brain
  2.3. History of brain stimulation
  2.4. shaking palsy
  2.5. DBS and Parkinson's disease
  2.6. DBS for other movement disorders: tremor and dystonia
  2.7. Phantom limb pain and DBS
  2.8. DBS and personality
  2.9. Psychiatric surgery: from lobotomy to stereotactic control of behaviour
  2.10. Psychiatric surgery today
  2.11. Will DBS replace psychiatric surgery?
  3. Brain Controls Itself: From Brain Reading to Brain Modulation via Neurofeedback
  3.1. Biofeedback and therapy: the beginnings
  3.2. Training elite musicians and surgeons
  3.3. Clinical biofeedback today
  3.4. Neurofeedback: deep brain stimulation without surgery?
  3.5. Neurofeedback: psychotherapy without therapist?
  3.6. Can neurofeedback improve Parkinson's disease?
  3.7. Neurofeedback and neurorehabilitation
  4. Ethics and Politics of Brain Control
  4.1. Brain control in neurology and psychiatry
  4.2. ethics of psychiatric surgery
  4.3. Mind control and society
  4.4. Illness and conformity
  4.5. Social myopia: exclusive focus on organic causes?
  4.6. Preventive surgery?
  4.7. Ethics of DBS
  4.8. DBS in patients who are unable to provide consent
  4.9. Ethics of BCIs
  4.10. Ethics of neurofeedback
  4.11. Outlook.