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T1 Brain dynamics. The brain activity according to the dynamic conditions of nervous excitability
A1 Gonzalo Rodríguez-Leal, Justo
A2 Gonzalo Fonrodona, Isabel
AB The present edition is the first English translation of a large part of Justo Gonzalo’s original work on Brain Dynamics, closely related to current research topics. Some of the phenomena described were observed much later and others are still unknown. In the parts of Vol. 1 (1945) and 2 (1950) the author characterizes, on the basis of brain injuries from the Spanish Civil War, the central syndrome of the cerebral cortex (multisensory and bilateral disorder) caused by a single unilateral parietoocipital lesion. The observed dynamic effects, such as a gradual loss of functions with decreasing stimulus and their recovery by its intensification or by multisensory or motor facilitation, or by iteration, are explained on a physiological basis. The author describes a careful experimental, quantitative analysis of visual and tactile functions, finding a continuity between simple sensations and higher brain functions. He describes for the first time in great detail phenomena such as inverted or tilted vision, some color disorders, reversal of motion, facilitation, etc. Tactile inversion is also described, generalizing the inverted perception in the central syndrome.Supplement I is the 1952 publication in which the author reports additional cases, and proposes, for the first time, that the specificity of a human brain function is distributed in gradation across the cortex, resulting in brain gradients and a unitary conception of the cortex. Supplement II deals with the concepts of dynamic similarity and allometric scaling power laws applied to the central syndrome, and shows later illustrations by the author.
PB Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
SN 978-84-00-11233-2
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118260
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118260
LA eng
NO Publication: Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2023.  Reference CSIC: 14070Parts of the book:Preface (by Isabel Gonzalo Fonrodona). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19BRAIN DYNAMICS, Volumes 1 and 2Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Volume 1General aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Sensory dynamics. Visual functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Volume 2Sensory dynamics. Tactile functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267References of Volumes 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537SUPPLEMENT IHuman brain functions according to new data and physiological basis . 551SUPPLEMENT IIIntroduction (by Isabel Gonzalo Fonrodona) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597Note on Gradients, Similarity and Allometry in Brain Dynamics . . . . . 599Illustrations on Phenomenology and Concepts in Brain Dynamics(Explanatoy texts by Isabel Gonzalo Fonrodona) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025