The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: • Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss • Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions • Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development • Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease • Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will lead to a better understanding of brain function and to the introduction of new therapeutic strategies. The book will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.

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Chapter 1 The paradoxical nature of nature
Chapter 2 Paradoxical effects of sensory loss
Chapter 3 Paradoxical functional facilitation and recovery in neurological and psychiatric conditions
Chapter 4 Paradoxes in neurorehabilitation
Chapter 5 The paradoxical self
Chapter 6 Paradoxical psychological functioning in early child development
Chapter 7 Cognitive ageing: a positive perspective
Chapter 8 Paradoxes of learning and memory
Chapter 9 The paradox of human expertise: why experts get it wrong
Chapter 10 Paradoxes in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders
Chapter 11 Paradoxical phenomena in epilepsy
Chapter 12 Paradoxical creativity and adjustment in neurological conditions
Chapter 13 Paradoxical functional facilitation with noninvasive brain stimulation
Chapter 14 Unexpected benefits of allergies and cigarette smoking: two examples of paradox in neuroepidemiology
Chapter 15 The paradox of autism: why does disability sometimes give rise to talent?
Chapter 16 Paradoxes in creativity and psychiatric conditions
Chapter 17 The paradox of psychosurgery to treat mental disorders
Chapter 18 The paradox of electroconvulsive therapy
Chapter 19 Paradoxes of comparative cognition
Chapter 20 Paradoxical phenomena in brain plasticity
Chapter 21 Immature neurons in the adult brain. Breaking all the rules
Chapter 22 The paradoxical hippocampus: when forgetting helps learning
Chapter 23: Paradoxical effects of drugs on cognitive function: the neuropsychopharmacology of the dopamine and other neurotra smitter systems
Chapter 24 The paradoxical brain - so what?
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