The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology
MIT Press 316 pp.– 51 illus. – extensive sidebars
Neurologists, neuropsychologists, and cognitive scientists work with many of the same problems and patients and yet know little about the literature and approaches of the other disciplines. The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology is a primer for graduate students, residents, and professionals who wish to increase their knowledge of behavioral neurology. It provides a clear and coherent introduction to contemporary neurological ideas, carefully contrasting the conventional hierarchical model of brain organization with newer ones that scientists from biological backgrounds currently use.
Instead of presenting laundry lists of arcane maladies along with a key of “where in the brain the responsible lesion is,” or a compendium of tests for a given situation—the received wisdom that sometimes must be memorized—Cytowic gives students the historical and conceptual tools they need not only to get up to speed regarding present knowledge, but to go forward.
Table of Contents
What is Neuropsychology?
Part I: Conceptualizations
Concepts of Mind
Concepts of Neural Tissue
Part II: Clinical Assessment
How to Examine a Patient
Formal Neuropsychological Assessment
Localization: Symptoms Caused by Focal Lesions in the Cerebrum
Part III: Specific Neuropsychological Topics
Disconnection Syndromes
Emotion, Consciousness, and Subjectivity
Memory and Amnesia Excerpt: Memory is a Distributed System
Dementia: An Example of Diffuse Disease
The Epilepsies
Spatial Knowledge
Language
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