Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior: (2 The Downstate series of research in psychiatry and psychology)

This volume is the second in "The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry." It is aseries devoted to the presentation of sig- nificant research with relevance for both clinicians and researchers in the multiple subfields of psychiatry. This book focuses on the interactions between psychic phenomena and physical processes as studied by evoked brain potentials. It presents material concerned with physiological and psychological unifying processes, as weIl as research concerning technology and methods of obtaining meaningful measurements. As such it is representative of biological psychiatry at its best. Thus, it represents another step in new directions in psychiatric research but not an unanticipated direction. Scientific investigation into the human psyche took an unex- pected turn when Sigmund Freud in the last part of the 19th Century turned his attention from neurological concerns to those of psychol- ogy. His first attempts at explanations as noted in the "project," included a heavy emphasis on the biological substrate of behavior.

Table of Contents:
Section I Stimulus Meaning and Evoked Potentials.- Stimuli With Biological Significance.- Event-Related Brain Potentials: A Tool in the Study of Human Information Processing.- Neuroelectrical Correlates of Semantic Processes.- P300--Thirteen Years Later.- Visual Evoked Potentials and Affective Ratings of Semantic Stimuli.- Functional Landscapes of the Brain: An Electrotopographic Perspective.- Connotative Meaning and Averaged Evoked Potentials.- Cognition and the Brain.- Section II Brain Dysfunction and Evoked Potentials.- Electrophysiological Assessments in Mentally Retarded Individuals: From Brainstem to Cortex.- The Use of Evoked Response Procedures in Studies of Reading Disability.- Brain Dysfunction and Evoked Potentials.- Visual Evoked Potentials and Brain Dysfunction in Chronic Alcoholics.- Relationships Between Behavioral and Electrocortical Responses of Aphasic and Non-Aphasic Brain-Damaged Adults to Semantic Materials.- The Evoked Response as a Measure of Cerebral Dysfunction.- Evoked Potentials in Patients With Neurological Disorders.- Section III Psychopathology and Evoked Potentials.- Auditory Evoked Potentials in Children at High Risk for Schizophrenia.- An Evoked Potential Study of Endogenous Affective Disorders.- Auditory Evoked Potentials and Psychopathology.- A Neurophysiology of Mind?.- Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Response Variability in Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia.- Sensory Evoked Potentials in Psychosis.- Late Event-Related Potentials and Schizophrenia.- Schizophrenia and Evoked Potentials.- Section IV Data Analysis.- Neurophysiological Correlates of Central Masking.- Basis Functions in the Analysis of Evoked Potentials.