Explaining Abnormal Behavior

A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

Bruce F. Pennington

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I. What Explanations Are Possible?

1. Scientific Explanation

2. Placing Neuroscience in the History of Science and Philosophy

3. History of the Localization of Function Debate

4. How Does the Brain Compute?

5. Classical and Contemporary Models of Abnormal Behavior

II. What Are the Disorders?

6. Disorders of Perception

7. Disorders of Attention

8. Disorders of Language

9. Disorders of Memory

10. Disorders of Action Selection

11. Disorders of State Regulation

12. Global Disorders

III. What Becomes of the Self?

13. How to Relate Self to Brain

Appendix A. Human Neocortical Regions

Appendix B. Online Resources

Glossary