Research Catalog

Title

Disorders of volition / edited by Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sebanz, Natalie
• Prinz, Wolfgang, 1942-

Description

vii, 493 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subject

• Schizophrenia
• Will
• Mental illness
• Mental Disorders
• Volition
• Depressive Disorder
• Prefrontal Cortex > injuries
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Psychische stoornissen
• Wilszwakte
• Psychische Störung
• Wille

Genre/Form

Will.

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a science of volition -- Conceptual foundations -- Conscious volition and mental representation: toward a more fine-grained analysis -- Feeling of doing: deconstructing the phenomenology of agency -- Conscious intention and sense of agency -- Agency in schizophrenia from a control theory viewpoint -- Selectionist model of the ego: implications for self-control -- If-then plans and the intentional control of thoughts, feelings, and actions -- Disorders of volition in schizophrenia -- From volition to agency: the mechanism of action recognition and its failures -- Motivated attention and schizophrenia -- Schizophrenic avolition: implications from functional and structural neuroimaging -- Interpersonal factors in the disorders of volition associated with schizophrenia -- Disorders of volition in depression -- Prefrontal and anterior cingulate contributions to volition in depression -- Action control and its failure in clinical depression: a neurocognitive theory -- Cost of pleasure: effort and cognition in anhedonia and depression -- Disorders of volition in patients with prefrontal lobe damage -- Human ventrolateral frontal cortex and intended action -- Volition and the human prefrontal cortex -- Rostral prefrontal brain regions (area 10): a gateway between inner thought and the external world? -- Disorders of volition in substance abuse -- Broken willpower: impaired mechanisms of decision making and impulse control in substance abusers -- Craving, cognition, and the self-regulation of cigarette smoking -- Dynamic model of the will with an application to alcohol-intoxicated behavior.

ISBN

• 0262195402 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780262195409 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780262513425 (pbk.)
• 0262513420 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005056188

OCLC

• 62322542
• SCSB-9956025

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library