Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
pp. vii
Chapter 1
Neuroplasticity in Learning and Rehabilitation
(Gerry Leisman, and Joav Merrick, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel, and others)
pp. 1-4
Section One: Learning and Rehabilitation
pp. 5
Chapter 2
Neuroeducational Networks
(Gerry Leisman, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel, and others)
pp. 7-20
Chapter 3
Plasticity and Functional Connectivities in Rehabilitation
(Gerry Leisman, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel, and others)
pp. 21-64
Chapter 4
Persistent Primitive Reflexes and Childhood Neurobehavioral Disorders
(Robert Melillo, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Biomechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ORT-Braude College of Engineering, Karmiel, Israel)
pp. 65-100
Chapter 5
Neuroplasticity of Asymmetric Cortical Function
(Randy W Beck, Institute of Functional Neuroscience and Division of Health Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia)
pp. 101-120
Chapter 6
Traumatic Brain Injury: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
(Nazareth P Castellanos, Elisa Rodríguez-Toscano, Javier García-Pacios, Pilar Garcés, Nuria Paúl, Pablo Cuesta, Ricardo Bajo, Juan García-Prieto, Francisco del-Pozo and Fernando Maestú, Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Centre of Magnetoencephalography), Centre of Biomedical Technology (CBT), Universdiad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, and others)
pp. 121-132
Chapter 7
A Computational Model of Cognitive Deficits in Medicated and Unmedicated Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
(Ahmed A Moustafa, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America)
pp. 133-154
Chapter 8
Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion
(Joel Brandon Brock, Samuel Yanuck, Michael Pierce, Michael Powell, Steven Geanopulos, Steven Noseworthy, Datis Kharrazian, Chris Turnpaugh, Albert Comey and Glen Zielinski, Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States of America, and others)
pp. 155-200
Chapter 9
Connectivity Cognition and Psychosis in the Physical Brain
(Avi Peled, Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
pp. 201-210
Chapter 10
Auditory, Visual, Spatial Aesthetic and Artistic Training Facilitates Brain Plasticity
(Gerry Leisman, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel, and others)
pp. 211-228
Chapter 11
The Plasticity of Neural Network Sensory-Substitution Object Shape Recognition
(Ella Striem-Amit, Ornella Dakwar, Uri Hertz, Peter Meijer, William Stern, Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Amir Amedi, Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, and others)
pp. 229-236
Section Two: Acknowledgments
pp. 237
Chapter 12
About the Editors
pp. 239-240
Chapter 13
About the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel
pp. 241-242
Chapter 14
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
pp. 243-245
Chapter 15
About the Book Series “Functional Neurology”
pp. 247
Section Three: Index
pp. 249
Index
pp. 251-263