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 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 purpose is to develop an understanding
of this homeostatic mechanism that has synergistic action with
other mechanisms such as appetite. The author addresses the
mechanisms that control waking and arousal, and especially how
those mechanisms malfunction in certain neurological and
psychiatric disorders.
First comprehensive overview on Waking and the Reticular
Activating System in Health and Disease
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"
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