The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians

by Baddeley, Alan D.; Kopelman, Michael; Wilson, Barbara A.

• ISBN13: 9780470091418
• ISBN10: 047009141X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-14
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders is a selection of chapters from the original volume that have been chosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The Essential Handbook provides individual clinicians and students with those parts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-day basis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensive Handbook. (Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X)

Author Biography

Alan D. Baddeley, Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Alan Baddeley was Director of the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, UK for over 20 years. He is now at the University of York. He is a cognitive psychologist with broad interests in the functioning of human memory under both normal conditions and conditions of brain damage and stress.

Michael D. Kopelman, Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK
Michael Kopelman is Professor of Neuropsychiatry in the Institute of Psychiatry based at St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College, London. He holds qualifications in both neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, and has particular interest and expertise in a wide range of memory disorders, both neurological and psychogenic. He runs a neuropsychiatry and memory disorders clinic at St Thomas’s Hospital.

Barbara A. Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
Barbara Wilson is a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and is Director of Research at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely, UK. She is a clinical psychologist with particular interests in the impact of neuropsychological memory deficits on everyday functioning and improving methods of neurorehabilitation. She was awarded an OBE in 1998 for services to medical rehabilitation, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Preface	x
Chapter 1 The Psychology of Memory	1	(14)
Alan D. Baddeley
Chapter 2 The Amnesic Syndrome: Overview and Subtypes	15	(22)
Margaret O'Connor and Mieke Verfaellie
Chapter 3 Posttraumatic Amnesia and Residual Memory Deficit after Closed Head Injury	37	(32)
Harvey S. Levin and Gerri Hanten
Chapter 4 Psychogenic Amnesia	69	(22)
Michael D. Kopelman
Chapter 5 Developmental Amnesias and Acquired Amnesias of Childhood	91	(22)
Christine M. Temple
Chapter 6 The Memory Deficit in Alzheimer's Disease	113	(22)
James T. Becker and Amv A. Overman
Chapter 7 Memory Disorders in Subcortical Dementia	135	(24)
Jason Brandt and Cynthia A. Munro
Chapter 8 Assessment of Memory Disorders	159	(20)
Barbara A. Wilson
Chapter 9 Separating Memory from Other Cognitive Disorders	179	(20)
Diane B. Howieson and Muriel D. Leak
Chapter 10 Management and Remediation of Memory Problems in Brain-injured Adults	199	(28)
Barbara A. Wilson
Chapter 11 Assessment and Management of Memory Problems in Children	227	(28)
Judith A. Middleton
Chapter 12 Assessment and Intervention in Dementia of Alzheimer Type	255	(30)
Linda Clare
Chapter 13 Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment in Dementia	285	(16)
Bob Woods
Chapter 14 External Memory Aids and Computers in Memory Rehabilitation	301	(28)
Narinder Kapur, Elizabeth L. Glisky and Barbara A. Wilson
Chapter 15 Emotional and Social Consequences of Memory Disorders	329	(24)
Robyn L. Tate
Author Index	353	(14)
Subject Index	367