Pathways to Prominence in Neuropsychology: Reflections of Twentieth-Century Pioneers

by Stringer,Anthony Y.

• ISBN13: 9780863776861
• ISBN10: 0863776868
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Although neuropsychology is little more than half a century old, the field has flourished and has had a profound impact on our understanding of the brain and our assessment and treatment of brain disorders. The start of a new century is an opportune time to reflect on the origins and future of this expanding field.Pathways to Prominence in Neuropsychologycaptures the stories behind the work of the clinicians and scholars who have contributed significantly to neuropsychology's development. Uniquely, this book goes beyond a discussion of ideas and discoveries to explore the people and the career paths they have taken. The book is divided into three major sections. Part I reviews the lives and work of key figures such as Nelson Butters, Aleksandr Luria and Roger Sperry. In Part II a number of pioneers in the field reflect on the body of their work in the context of their personal development and professional pathways. The role of social and cultural factors, scientific and technologicaladvances, and serendipity becomes apparent in many of these chapters. A final section focuses on the future of neuropsychology both as a profession and as a science. While it would be impossible to provide an exhaustive review of the field in a single volume,Pathways to Prominence in Neuropsychologywill provide twenty-first-century scholars and clinicians with insight and inspiration in the reflections of the generation that preceded them.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction
Neuropsychology: A Twentieth-Century Science	3	(26)
Anthony Y. Stringer
Eileen L. Cooley
I. PATHWAYS UNFORGOTTEN
Nelson Butters: One Step Ahead	29	(12)
Nelson Butters
Meryl A. Butters
Henry Hecaen: Evolution of His Thought	41	(8)
Athanase Tzavaras
Martin L. Albert
A. R. Luria: Pursuing Neuropsychology in a Swiftly Changing Society	49	(14)
Lena Moskovich
Dmitri Bougakov
Philip DeFina
Elkhonon Goldberg
Roger W. Sperry: From Neuro-Science to Neuro-Philsophy	63	(14)
Antonio E. Puente
Hans-Lukas Teuber: Envisioning Neuropsychology	77	(24)
Mary Brown Parlee
II. PATHWAYS REMEMBERED
Teaching the Brain	101	(18)
Dirk J. Bakker
Lifelines	119	(20)
Anne-Lise Christensen
The Making of a Behavioral Neurologist-Neuropsychologist	139	(18)
Kenneth M. Heilman
Serendipity in Science: A Personal Account	157	(14)
Edith Kaplan
In Search of Knowledge and Competence	171	(12)
Manfred J. Meier
Jersey to Oklahoma: A Neuropsychologist's Trajectory	183	(14)
Oscar A. Parsons
Autobiography in Anecdote: The Founding of Experimental Neuropsychology	197	(26)
Karl H. Pribram
The Best Laid Plans---and the Vagaries of Circumstantial Events	223	(16)
Ralph M. Reitan
My Odyssey in Child-Clinical Neuropsychology	239	(14)
Byron P. Rourke
Pathways and Reflections	253	(14)
Otfried Spreen
III. PATHWAYS IMAGINED
To Infinity and Beyond: Clinical Neuropsychology in the Twenty-First Century	267	(30)
Russell M. Bauer
Amnesia for the Past Causes Deficits in Prospective Planning	297	(8)
Laird S. Cermak
From a Decade of the Brain to a Century of the Brain: Neuropsychology and the Alleviation of Disability	305	(14)
Anthony Y. Stringer
Biographical Index	319