Cerebral Cortex: Architecture, Connections, and the Dual Origin Concept [Hardcover]

This unique book provides a new view of the organization of the cerebral cortex. It explores the underlying principle of the organization of the cerebral cortex using the dual nature of the origin of the cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex provides a different way of understanding the current behavioral studies, neuroimaging observations, and promises a new approach to future studies.Cerebral Cortex is a comprehensive and detailed work covering the dual nature of the organization of the architecture and connections of the cerebral cortex. After establishing the evolutionary approach of the cerebral cortex's origin, the authors have systematically analyzed, in detail, the common principle underlying the structure and connections of sensory and motor systems. This important book describes the frontal, limbic, and multimodal association areas, as well as the long fiber pathways in a similar manner. The anatomical investigations have been complimented with current clinical and experimental observations, as well as neuroimaging studies. This unique approach, exploring the underlying principle of the architecture and connections of the cerebral cortex, has previously never been undertaken. In the concluding chapter of the book, the authors have provided the usefulness of such an approach for future investigations. Cerebral Cortex provides extensive illustrations, along with historical references to each sensory, motor and association systems.Part IChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Architectonics: History and PrinciplesChapter 3 Dual Organization of the Cerebral CortexChapter 4 Cortical Connections: History and PrinciplesPart IIChapter 5 Auditory SystemChapter 6 Somatosensory SystemChapter 7 Motor SystemChapter 8 Visual SystemChapter 9 Multimodal CortexChapter 10 Prefrontal CortexChapter 11 Paralimbic SystemChapter 12 Long Association PathwaysChapter 13 Olfactory, Gustatory, and Vestibular Systems and the AmygdalaChapter 14 Concluding CommentsDeepak N. Pandya, M.D.