Are there Neural Correlates of Depression?

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 345-366

  Vidal, Fernando ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

"neural correlates" of behaviors and mental processes; Consciousness as wakefulness, neural functions; Functional magnetic resonance (fMRI); Goal of education "to educate a person"; NCC debates, neurocorrelational turn of mind in research; NCC, "specific system in brain...states of conscious experience"; Neural correlates of consciousness; Neural correlates of depression, whether present; Neuroimaging based neural correlations; Neurotheology, bases of spiritual, mystical experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885521143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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