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Explaining Abnormal Behavior

A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
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Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior. Bruce Pennington draws on work from multiple disciplines to identify compelling links among psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological disorders that are not generally studied together. Presenting cutting-edge work on the brain systems involved in key domains of neuropsychological functioning, Pennington sheds light on acquired neurological disorders like aphasia and amnesia, as well as the development of such conditions as schizophrenia, depression, dyslexia, autism, and intellectual disability. The book also reveals how the analysis of both typical and atypical brain-behavior relationships can contribute to a neural explanation of the self and consciousness.
I. What Explanations Are Possible? 1. Scientific Explanation 2. Placing Neuroscience in the History of Science and Philosophy 3. History of the Localization of Function Debate 4. How Does the Brain Compute? 5. Classical and Contemporary Models of Abnormal Behavior II. What Are the Disorders? 6. Disorders of Perception 7. Disorders of Attention 8. Disorders of Language 9. Disorders of Memory 10. Disorders of Action Selection 11. Disorders of State Regulation 12. Global Disorders III. What Becomes of the Self? 13. How to Relate Self to Brain Appendix A. Human Neocortical Regions Appendix B. Online Resources Glossary
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