Clinical Neuropsychology

by Kenneth M. Heilman; Edward Valenstein

• ISBN13: 9780195133677
• ISBN10: 0195133676
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Clinical Neuropsychology comprehensively reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction. Since the third edition appeared in 1993 there have been many advances in the understanding and treatment of neurobehavioral disorders. This edition, like prior editions,describes the classical signs and symptoms associated with the major behavioral disorders such as aphasia, agraphia, alexia, amnesia, apraxia, neglect, executive disorders and dementia. It also discusses advances in assessing, diagnosing and treating these disorders and it addresses the brainmechanisms underlying these deficits. A multi-authored text has the advantage of having authorities write about the disorders in which they have expertise. The fourth edition adds new authors and five entirely new chapters on phonologic aspects of language disorders, syntactic aspects of languagedisorders, lexical-semantic aspects of language disorders, anosognosia, hallucinations and related conditions. This is the most comprehensive edition of this text to date. It will be of value to clinicians, investigators, and students from a variety of disciplines, including neurology, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and speech pathology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Aphasic Syndromes	p. 14
Phonologic Aspects of Language Disorders	p. 35
Syntactic Aspects of Language Disorders	p. 61
Lexical-Semantic Aspects of Language Disorders	p. 92
Acquired Dyslexia	p. 108
Agraphia	p. 126
Disorders of Visual-Spatial Perception and Cognition	p. 146
Acalculia and Disturbances of the Body Schema	p. 161
Anosognosia	p. 185
Apraxia	p. 215
Agnosia	p. 236
Neglect and Related Disorders	p. 296
The Callosal Syndromes	p. 347
The Frontal Lobes	p. 404
Emotional Disorders Associated with Neurological Diseases	p. 447
Hallucinations and Related Conditions	p. 479
Amnesic Disorders	p. 495
Neuropsychology of Dementia	p. 574
Recovery of Cognition	p. 617
Pharmacotherapy of Cognition	p. 640
Subject Index	p. 657
Author Index	p. 693
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